Past election experience shows a longer ballot affects the number of initiatives that any one voter understands or chooses to vote on.
Voters tend to skip over some initiatives on longer ballots.
This usually means a higher drop off rate on initiatives further down the ballot, resulting in initiatives passing or failing by margins far smaller than the overall election turnout. Contribution and Spending Limits. Local Majority Vote Support Proposition 27 Elections. 28 Repeal of Additional Tobacco Surtax Enacted by Proposition 10 Proposition 29 Referendum Vote to Overturn Previously Approved Gaming Compacts CSEA will continue reviewing and positioning initiatives through January of 2000.