California voters will confront a smorgasbord of policy questions on the November ballot, with initiatives ranging from marijuana legalization and the death penalty to gun control and taxes qualifying by the Thursday deadline.
The Nov. 8 ballot includes the largest number of measures – 17 – since 2000, when 20 measures qualified, according to the California secretary of state’s office. The most all time was in November 1914, when 48 measures appeared.
Only the Legislature can add more measures to the ballot now, and it will have little time to do so after returning from its summer recess in August.
Asked on Thursday if the crowded ballot might confuse voters, Gov. Jerry Brown told reporters, “No more than usual.”
State law sets ballot order, depending on each measure’s type and when it qualified. The secretary of state’s office will assign proposition numbers in the coming days.
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