Ballot measure information on California county websites for June 8, 2010 election

Overall analysis →

California county election websites vary in the extent of information they make available to the public about local ballot measures.

This page reflects the results of a survey/study of which California county websites provided information about local ballot measures on the June 8, 2010 ballot, and when they provided it. In California, local ballot measure elections for cities, counties, school districts and special districts such as library and park districts, are administered by county election officials.

Notes on survey:

June 8, 2010 election in California

This study was conducted by me, Polycal, a writer on Ballotpedia. On June 2, with less than a week to go before the June 8 election, I was aware that there were local ballot measure elections in 28 counties, but I was only able to discover local ballot measure listings on 18 county websites.

The nine counties where I knew that there were local ballot measure elections on June 8, but where the county website did not provide information about those local ballot measure elections were: Amador, Humboldt, Kern (sample ballot look-up only), Mendocino, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Solano and Sonoma.

See also: Notes on study methodology

Post-election update: After the election, I identified 3 additional counties (Inyo, Kings and Modoc) where local ballot measure elections took place on June 8 that did not provide any information at all on their websites prior to the election about these local ballot measures. All-in-all, 31 counties administered local ballot measure elections on June 8, but only 18 of those counties (58%) provided pre-election information on their websites.

Legend:

NL = No information provided. This could mean that there are measures, and no information is given about them, or it could mean that there are no measures.
SB = A sample ballot look-up feature is offered for municipalities within the county, but there is no one list available of all local ballot measures. Presumably, when a voter in a specific municipality looks up his or her sample ballot, the sample ballot would display any local ballot measures relevant to that voter.
a = Information available about ballot measures on the June 8, 2010 ballot.
d = The website proactively informs readers that there are no measures on the June 8 ballot.

The d and a symbols indicate websites that provide clearcut information one way or the other.

Alameda-Lassen

County	Election website	April 23	May 17	June 1
Alameda	Website	a	a	a
Alpine	Website	NL	NL	NL
Amador	Website	NL	NL	NL
Butte	Website	d	d	d
Calaveras	Website	NL	NL	NL
Colusa	Website	NL	NL	NL
Contra Costa	Website	a	a	a
Del Norte	Website	NL	NL	NL
El Dorado	Website	NL	NL	Sample ballot look-up
Fresno	Website	NL	NL	a
Glenn	Website	NL	NL	NL
Humboldt	Website	NL	NL	NL
Imperial	Website	NL	NL	NL
Inyo	Website	NL	NL	NL
Kern	Website	Sample ballot look-up	SB	SB
Kings	Website	NL	NL	NL
Lake	Website	NL	NL	NL
Lassen	Website	NL	NL	NL

Los Angeles-San Mateo

County	Election website	April 23	May 17	June 1
Los Angeles	Website	a	a	a
Madera	Website	NL	NL	NL
Marin	Website	a	a	a
Mariposa	Website	NL	NL	NL
Mendocino	Website	NL	NL	NL
Merced	Website	NL	NL	NL
Modoc	Website	NL	NL	NL
Mono	Website	a	a	a
Monterey	Website	a	a	a
Napa	Website	NL	NL	NL
Nevada	Website	NL	NL	NL
Orange	Website	a	a	a
Placer	Website	NL	NL	NL
Plumas	Website	NL	NL	NL
Riverside	Website	NL	Eastvale (limited)	NL
Sacramento	Website	a	a	a
San Benito	Website	NL	NL	NL
San Bernardino	Website	NL	NL	NL
San Diego	Website	a	a	a
San Francisco	Website	a	a	a
San Joaquin	Website	a	a	a
San Luis Obispo	Website	NL	a	a
San Mateo	Website	a	a	a

Santa Barbara-Yuba

County	Election website	April 23	May 17	June 1
Santa Barbara	Website	NL	NL	NL
Santa Clara	Website	a	a	a
Santa Cruz	Website	NL	SB	SB
Shasta	Website	NL	NL	NL
Sierra	Website	NL	NL	NL
Siskiyou	Website	NL	NL	NL
Solano	Website	NL	NL	NL
Sonoma	Website	NL	NL	NL
Stanislaus	Website	NL	NL	NL
Sutter	Website	NL	NL	NL
Tehama	Website	NL	NL	NL
Trinity	Website	NL	NL	NL
Tulare	Website	a	a	a
Tuolumne	Website	a (June 15 measure)	a (June 15 measure)	a
Ventura	Website	NL	d	d
Yolo	Website	NL	a	a
Yuba	Website	NL	NL	NL

Aggregate statistics

Date	# of websites with information	# of websites with SB look-up only	Counties known to have local measures
April 23	15		25
May 17	19		25
June 1	20	3	27

As of June 1, I (Polycal) have been able to discern that there are local ballot measure elections in at least 27 counties. However, only 18 counties list local ballot measure information on their websites, while 2 additional websites proactively assert that they have no local ballot measures on their June 8 ballot. 3 additional websites provide a sample ballot look-up feature.

See also

• Ballot measure information on California county websites for November 2009 election
• Ballot measure information on California county websites