Combined ballot

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President/Vice President of the United States

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Democratic
  8,063,473 votes 61.1%
• John McCain/Sarah Palin, Republican
  4,902,278 votes 37.1%
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales, Peace and Freedom
  105,375 votes 0.8%
• Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian
  65,654 votes 0.5%
• Alan Keyes/Wiley S. Drake, Sr., American Independent
  39,620 votes 0.3%
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente, Green
  37,432 votes 0.2%
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)

US Legislative

United States Representative; District 2

• Wally Herger
  145,194 votes 57.9%
• Jeff Morris
  105,990 votes 42.1%

United States Representative; District 4

• Tom McClintock
  184,543 votes 50.3%
• Charlie Brown
  182,967 votes 49.7%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 2

• Jim Nielsen
  105,140 votes 65.4%
• Paul Singh
  55,772 votes 34.6%

Member of the State Assembly; District 3

• Dan Logue
  98,714 votes 55.9%
• Michael Harrington
  78,122 votes 44.1%

Judicial

School

Board Member; Biggs Unified School District (2 Elected)

• Kari L. Wheeler
  872 votes 50.99%
• Kris Scott
  574 votes 33.57%
• Casey B. Ackerman
  258 votes 15.09%
• (6 Total Write-In Votes 0.35%)

Board Member; Chico Unified School District (2 Elected)

• Jann Reed
  22931 votes 39.08%
• Elizabeth Griffin
  14916 votes 25.42%
• Zane Schreder
  8594 votes 14.65%
• David Pollak
  6634 votes 11.31%
• Jjon Mohr
  5428 votes 9.25%
• (176 Total Write-In Votes 0.30%)

Board Member; Durham Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Robert Bultema
  1676 votes 34.00%
• Mark Kimmelshue
  977 votes 19.82%
• Greg Johnson
  880 votes 17.85%
• Bruce Book
  787 votes 15.96%
• (610 Total Write-In Votes 12.37%)

Board Member; Gridley Unified School District; Trustee Area 2; Full Term (2 Elected)

• Kathleen "Kathy" Wheeler
  2424 votes 49.07%
• Eric Waterbury
  1478 votes 29.92%
• Robert L. Zunino
  1006 votes 20.36%
• (32 Total Write-In Votes 0.65%)

Board Member; Marysville Joint Unified School District; Trustee Area 4

• Bernard Rechs
  111 votes 58.12%
• Val Haskell
  78 votes 40.84%
• (2 Total Write-In Votes 1.05%)

Board Member; Paradise Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Donna Nichols
  7081 votes 17.85%
• Tom Conry
  7075 votes 17.83%
• Lisa Nelson
  6953 votes 17.52%
• Gary Manwill
  5575 votes 14.05%
• Jim Westmoreland
  5047 votes 12.72%
• Judith Peters
  3160 votes 7.96%
• Glenn A. Stankis
  2653 votes 6.69%
• Justin D. Meyers
  2062 votes 5.20%
• (73 Total Write-In Votes 0.18%)

Board Member; Oroville Union High School District (2 Elected)

• Craig Domeyer
  9031 votes 38.54%
• Scott Damon
  7540 votes 32.18%
• Edward Hottell
  6803 votes 29.03%
• (59 Total Write-In Votes 0.25%)

Board Member; Bangor Union Elementary School District (2 Elected)

• Michael L. Warren
  253 votes 39.35%
• Alyse Hickman
  196 votes 30.48%
• Tim Miller
  189 votes 29.39%
• (5 Total Write-In Votes 0.78%)

Council Member; City of Biggs; Full Term (2 Elected)

• Roger Frith
  308 votes 51.16%
• John Busch
  254 votes 42.19%
• (40 Total Write-In Votes 6.64%)

Council Member; City of Biggs; Unexpired Short Term

• Angela M. Thompson
  294 votes 66.67%
• John Rummel
  144 votes 32.65%
• (3 Total Write-In Votes 0.68%)

Council Member; City of Chico (4 Elected)

• Ann Schwab
  14261 votes 14.94%
• Andy Holcombe
  14235 votes 14.92%
• Jim Walker
  14047 votes 14.72%
• Larry Wahl
  13245 votes 13.88%
• Mark Sorensen
  12917 votes 13.54%
• Joe Valente
  10862 votes 11.38%
• Ali Sarsour
  10056 votes 10.54%
• Cynthia Van Auken
  5592 votes 5.86%
• (217 Total Write-In Votes 0.23%)

Council Member; City of Gridley (3 Elected)

• Owen Stiles
  849 votes 22.90%
• Dan Boeger
  746 votes 20.12%
• David C. Garner
  554 votes 14.94%
• Marlena Sparks
  526 votes 14.19%
• Frank Hall
  511 votes 13.78%
• Pedro Mota
  510 votes 13.75%
• (12 Total Write-In Votes 0.32%)

Council Member; City of Oroville (3 Elected)

• David W. Pittman
  1790 votes 19.46%
• Allen "Jr" Simpson
  1528 votes 16.61%
• Thil Chan-Wilcox
  1262 votes 13.72%
• Steven E. Harvey
  1207 votes 13.12%
• Jack Berry
  1066 votes 11.59%
• William "Bill" Coots
  898 votes 9.76%
• Jim Prouty
  856 votes 9.31%
• Mike Howard
  582 votes 6.33%
• (9 Total Write-In Votes 0.10%)

Council Member; Town of Paradise (3 Elected)

• Alan White
  5487 votes 19.87%
• Steve "Woody" Culleton
  5197 votes 18.82%
• Joe Di Duca
  4451 votes 16.11%
• Dave "Grumpy" Davis
  4092 votes 14.81%
• Robin Huffman
  3702 votes 13.40%
• Elaine Baltierra
  2799 votes 10.13%
• Stan McEtchin
  1089 votes 3.94%
• David A. Anderson
  763 votes 2.76%
• (41 Total Write-In Votes 0.15%)

Special District

Board Member; South Feather Water & Power Agency; Division 2

• Lou Lodigiani
  4948 votes 72.82%
• George Menas
  1814 votes 26.70%
• (33 Total Write-In Votes 0.49%)

Board Member; Chico Area Recreation & Park District (2 Elected)

• Mark T. Sweany
  17281 votes 36.12%
• Jerry Hughes
  15874 votes 33.18%
• Ken Burkhart
  14502 votes 30.31%
• (186 Total Write-In Votes 0.39%)

Board Member; Feather River Recreation & Park District (3 Elected)

• Jennifer Kremen
  6619 votes 19.62%
• Jan Hill
  6582 votes 19.51%
• Jill Andoe
  6333 votes 18.78%
• Russ Watts
  5871 votes 17.41%
• John Thomas Allen
  4953 votes 14.68%
• Tony Rushing
  3318 votes 9.84%
• (55 Total Write-In Votes 0.16%)

Proposition 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train
Pass: 6,512,189 / 52.5% Yes votes ...... 5,887,181 / 47.5% No votes

To provide Californians a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices; to provide good-paying jobs and improve California's economy while reducing air pollution, global warming greenhouse gases, and our dependence on foreign oil, shall $9.95 billion in bonds be issued to establish a clean, efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with at least 90 percent of bond funds spent for specific projects, with federal and private matching funds required, all bond funds subject to an independent audit?

Proposition 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals
Pass: 8,009,556 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,622,352 / 36.6% No votes

Shall certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around?

Proposition 3 Children's Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program
Pass: 6,805,649 / 55.1% Yes votes ...... 5,536,987 / 44.9% No votes

Shall $980,000,000 in general obligation bonds be authorized for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of eligible children's hospitals?

Proposition 4 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy
Fail: 6,071,863 / 48.0% Yes votes ...... 6,570,777 / 52.0% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to prohibit abortion for an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian, or, in limited cases, substitute adult relative?

Proposition 5 Nonviolent Drug Offenses, Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation
Fail: 5,015,080 / 40.4% Yes votes ...... 7,407,454 / 59.6% No votes

Shall $460,000,000 be allocated annually to improve and expand treatment programs?

Proposition 6 Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws
Fail: 3,728,495 / 30.8% Yes votes ...... 8,365,052 / 69.2% No votes

Shall of minimum of $965,000,000 of state funding be required each year for police and local law enforcement?

Proposition 7 Renewable Energy Generation
Fail: 4,376,814 / 35.4% Yes votes ...... 7,984,617 / 64.6% No votes

Shall government-owned utilities be required to generate 20% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable to private electrical corporations? Shall all utilities be required to generate 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025?

Proposition 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
Pass: 6,838,107 / 52.3% Yes votes ...... 6,246,463 / 47.7% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry providing that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California?

Proposition 9 Criminal Justice System. Victims' Rights. Parole
Pass: 6,518,511 / 53.8% Yes votes ...... 5,602,596 / 46.2% No votes

Shall notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole be required? Shall victim safety be a consideration for bail or parole?

Proposition 10 Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds
Fail: 4,966,867 / 40.5% Yes votes ...... 7,303,418 / 59.5% No votes

Shall $5 billion in bonds paid from state's General Fund be authorized to help consumers and others purchase certain vehicles, and to help research in renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles?

Proposition 11 Redistricting
Pass: 5,957,057 / 50.8% Yes votes ...... 5,759,932 / 49.2% No votes

Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?

Proposition 12 Veteran's Bond Act of 2008
Pass: 7,618,136 / 63.5% Yes votes ...... 4,385,715 / 36.5% No votes

Shall a nine hundred million dollar ($900,000,000) bond be issued to provide farm and home aid for California veterans?

Measure B Emergency Response and Fire Protection -- El Medio Fire Protection District (2/3 Vote for approval)
Pass: 779 / 73.01% Yes votes ...... 288 / 26.99% No votes

To provide local fire protection and rapid emergency response services for the El Medio community, so victims of heart attacks, strokes, car accidents and other medical emergencies can receive rapid response care, to protect our homes and businesses from fire, to receive matching state funds, and to keep insurance rates manageable, shall an annual special property tax be authorized with all revenue staying in our community for local fire protection and emergency medical response services?

Measure E Schools Safety and Repair -- Biggs Unified School District (55% for Approval)
Fail: 531 / 44.40% Yes votes ...... 665 / 55.60% No votes

To improve the quality of education, qualify for $4,000,000 state matching funds, fix leaky roofs, improve fire safety, repair and modernize classrooms, upgrade electrical, plumbing, heating/ventilation systems for energy efficiency, and update science and computer technology, shall Biggs Unified School District issue $6,900,000 of bonds at legal rates to renovate, acquire, construct and equip neighborhood schools, sites and facilities, with required independent financial audits, citizens' oversight and no money for administrators' salaries?

Measure G Athletic Facilities Improvement Bonds -- Oroville Union High School District
9456 / 58.24% Yes votes ...... 6781 / 41.76% No votes

Shall the Oroville Union High School District issue $12,000,000 of bonds at legal interest rates with an independent citizen's oversight committee, annual audits and NO money for administrator salaries?

Measure P School Bond Measure -- Marysville Joint Unified School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 138 / 61.06% Yes votes ...... 88 / 38.94% No votes

To continue improving the quality of education in local schools and protecting the safety of our children, by repairing, replacing or updating fire alarm systems, worn-out roofs, outdated classrooms and science labs, plumbing and heating/air conditioning systems; and to help qualify for State matching funds for school modernization and construction, shall the Marysville Joint Unified School District issue $47,000,000 of bonds at legal interest rates, with independent citizens' oversight and audits, and no money for administrators' salaries?