Issue Position: The Platform - TAKE IT BACK: ELECTIONS

Issue Position

Publicly fund all California elections:

At minimum, mandatory for all candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Senate candidates, and State Assembly candidates

Includes access to the public election fund (with spending caps) for local races and judicial races

Establish a minimum number of in-district individual small dollar donations to secure a candidate's access to the ballot and to the public election fund

Establish statewide ranked-choice voting for all offices

Require candidates to disclose directly on their websites donors to their candidate committees as well as independent expenditures supporting them/opposing their opponents, grouped by in-district/out-of-district status and donor type (individual, PAC, business, union, 501(c)(4), etc.)

Cap independent expenditures

Lower the campaign donation maximum to $1,000 per individual for all races

Support AB-177 to establish Election Day as a holiday

Support ACA-8 to lower the voting age to 17

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