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San Francisco County, CA November 8, 2005 Election
Proposition E
Election Date of the Assessor - Recorder and Public Defender
City and County of San Francisco
Election Date Change - Simple Majority

Pass: 138,765 / 70.17% Yes votes ...... 58,998 / 29.83% No votes

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Shall the election date of the Assessor-Recorder and Public Defender be moved from the Statewide Primary election in June to the municipal election the following November?

Summary Prepared by the Ballot Simplification Committee:
THE WAY IT IS NOW: The Assessor-Recorder and Public Defender are elected every four years at the Statewide Primary election in June. In the past, if no candidate received a majority of the votes in the Statewide Primary election, a run-off election was held at the municipal election the following November.

San Francisco now uses ranked-choice (or "instant run-off") voting to elect local officers, including the Assessor-Recorder and Public Defender. As a result, separate run-off elections are no longer necessary.

THE PROPOSAL: Proposition E is a Charter amendment that would move the election date of the Assessor-Recorder and Public Defender from the June Statewide Primary election to the municipal election the following November.

Meaning of Voting Yes/No
A YES vote on this measure means:
If you vote "yes," you want to move the election date of the Assessor-Recorder and Public Defender from the June Statewide Primary election to the municipal election the following November.

A NO vote on this measure means:
If you vote "no," you do not want to make this change.

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