Sarah Fenske

Updated Wednesday morning with complete results. See the bottom of this post for tallies with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Proposition 32, the measure designed to stop unions from deducting political contributions from employee paychecks, appears to have gone down to defeat tonight. The race was initially tight. With 12......

Proposition 31, the ballot measure pushed by good-government types to change how money is spent in Sacramento, appears to be headed to defeat, according to preliminary election results tonight. Also known as the "California Government Performance and Accountability" proposition, Prop 31 was a host of reforms: It would require that......

Updated at the bottom with complete vote totals. Proposition 33, the California ballot measure that would change the state's regulations for auto insurance, looks likely to be defeated, according to preliminary election results last night. With 65 percent of precincts reporting, only 46 percent were in favor of the measure,......

Proposition 31, the ballot measure pushed by good-government types to change how money is spent in Sacramento, was losing by a healthy margin when early returns were published tonight. We should caution that those are very early returns -- mostly absentee ballots and 1.3 percent of precincts. But the results......

Proposition 32, the measure designed to stop unions from deducting political contributions from employee paychecks, was off to a good start after absentee ballots were counted tonight. But when further results came in a few minutes later, the measure dipped in support. As of 8:30 p.m., and 6 percent of......

Proposition 33, the California ballot measure that would change the state's regulations for auto insurance, is off to a tough start tonight, according to an extremely preliminary vote total, including mostly absentee ballots, just made public. With 1.3 percent of precincts reporting, the California Secretary of State showed the measure......

My polling place was closed this morning. It was supposed to be open at 7 a.m. Yet there we were, about a dozen of us -- the kind of people who, when something is scheduled to open at 7 a.m., show up at 7 a.m. And yet the poll worker......

The guy behind Proposition 33, insurance magnate George Joseph, has spent nearly $17 million to fight for the right to extend discounts to drivers who've had five years of uninterrupted coverage, even if that coverage has come from more than one company. Joseph has said that he's pushing the measure......