i basically voted the same as you with exceptions on 11 and 1a. we will see how it all turned out. i spent forever reading all the propositions last night and flip flopped on a few of them!

so we have a new president! president obama will be inaugurated in 75 days! woo hoo!

jennifer juniper

Some of the props were tough this time around. I had a hard time deciding how to vote on Prop 1a. I think we really need to improve our transportation infrastructure, and a 2hr 40min trip to SF would be really cool. Ultimately, though, I’d rather that money be spent on intracity transportation systems. Traveling to SF isn’t a very common trip for me (and for most people), but I fight with freeway traffic *every day*. So in the end I voted no.

I agree with you on the prison related props. We can’t just lock people up and think we can forget about them. Most of the people in prison are going to get out at some point and we need to rehabilitate them so they don’t end up right back inside. We also don’t need to be throwing small time non-violent offenders in prison where they turn into worse criminals.

Prop 11 was another tough one. You know I hate gerrymandering as much as you do. I agree that an algorithmic approach would be ideal, but people just aren’t going to trust computers for this so it’s never going to happen. The prop definitely has its flaws, but I think that it is at least somewhat better than the current system, so I voted for it.