Combined ballot

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(Elections Office, local League of Women Voters, links to other county election sites)

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%
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)

US Legislature

United States Representative; District 1

• Mike Thompson, Democratic
  181,766 votes 68.4%
• Zane Starkewolf, Republican
  61,833 votes 23.2%
• Carol Wolman, Green
  22,430 votes 8.4%
• Pamela Elizondo (Write-in)

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 1

• Wesley Chesbro, Democratic
  118,623 votes 70.9%
• Jim Pell, Republican
  48,755 votes 29.1%

County

Supervisor; County of Humboldt; District 2

• Clif Clendenen
  4082 votes 39.69%
• Estelle Fennell
  2921 votes 28.40%
• Johanna Rodoni (Write-in)
• (3282 Total Write-In Votes 31.91%)

Council Member; City of Arcata (3 Elected)

• Michael Winkler
  4281 votes 28.62%
• Shane Brinton
  3043 votes 20.35%
• Susan Ornelas
  2926 votes 19.56%
• Michael J. Machi
  2587 votes 17.30%
• Jason A. Grow
  1292 votes 8.64%
• Geronimo Garcia
  728 votes 4.87%
• (99 Total Write-In Votes 0.66%)

Council Member; City of Blue Lake (3 Elected)

• Patricia Falor
  385 votes 28.67%
• Michele McCall-Wallace
  352 votes 26.21%
• Karen Barnes
  317 votes 23.60%
• Alexander Ricca
  152 votes 11.32%
• Meghan Vogel
  99 votes 7.37%
• (38 Total Write-In Votes 2.83%)

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 2

• Linda Atkins
  4356 votes 52.95%
• Polly Endert
  3835 votes 46.61%
• (36 Total Write-In Votes 0.44%)

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 4

• Frank Jager
  5253 votes 62.96%
• George Clark
  3080 votes 36.91%
• (11 Total Write-In Votes 0.13%)

Mayor; City of Ferndale

• Jeffrey Farley
  520 votes 94.20%
• (32 Total Write-In Votes 5.80%)

Council Member; City of Ferndale (2 Elected)

• Stuart Titus
  392 votes 32.42%
• Kenneth S. Mierzwa
  354 votes 29.28%
• David Walters
  238 votes 19.69%
• Shannon Leonardo
  222 votes 18.36%
• (3 Total Write-In Votes 0.25%)

Council Member; City of Fortuna (2 Elected)

• Douglas Strehl
  2351 votes 35.69%
• Kenneth E. Zanzi
  1690 votes 25.66%
• Odell Shelton
  1486 votes 22.56%
• Thomas Mulholland
  757 votes 11.49%
• Don Mayden
  272 votes 4.13%
• (31 Total Write-In Votes 0.47%)

Council Member; City of Rio Dell (2 Elected)

• Jack R. Thompson
  561 votes 37.40%
• Marc Barsanti
  556 votes 37.07%
• Richard Leo Leonard
  367 votes 24.47%
• (16 Total Write-In Votes 1.07%)

Council Member; City of Trinidad (2 Elected)

• Julie Fulkerson
  120 votes 50.42%
• Michael Morgan
  103 votes 43.28%
• (15 Total Write-In Votes 6.30%)

Special District

Board Member; Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District; Division 1

• Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
  2509 votes 61.87%
• Stephen Davies
  1527 votes 37.66%
• (19 Total Write-In Votes 0.47%)

Board Member; Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District; Division 2

• Tera Prucha
  2495 votes 34.58%
• Ben Shepherd
  2158 votes 29.91%
• Edward "Buzz" Webb
  2019 votes 27.98%
• Adrienne Floreen
  285 votes 3.95%
• Jake Pickering
  240 votes 3.33%
• (19 Total Write-In Votes 0.26%)

Board Member; Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District; Division 3

• Barbara Hecathorn
  3434 votes 59.32%
• Robert A. Schultz
  2330 votes 40.25%
• (25 Total Write-In Votes 0.43%)

Board Member; Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare District

• Nancy R. Wilson
  1,535 votes 28.8%
• Ed Smith
  1,175 votes 22.0%
• David Kirby
  1,129 votes 21.2%
• Judith Gonzales
  990 votes 18.6%
• Chloe Bear
  490 votes 9.2%
• (12 Total Write-In Votes 0.2%)

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 D Transaction and Use Tax -- City of Eureka (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 4652 / 56.31% Yes votes ...... 3610 / 43.69% No votes

Shall the Eureka Municipal Code be amended to add a one quarter of one percent (0.25%) transaction and use tax to fund essential services such as police, fire, street maintenance, environmental programs, and parks and recreation? Should the tax be approved by voters the existing three percent (3%) utility user tax would be repealed.

Measure E Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Eureka (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 5198 / 62.60% Yes votes ...... 3106 / 37.40% No votes

Shall the Eureka Municipal Code be amended to increase the currently assessed nine percent (9%) Transient Occupancy Tax to ten percent (10%) to fund essential services such as police, fire, street maintenance, environmental programs, and parks and recreation?

Measure F Military Recruting -- City of Arcata (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 5129 / 72.59% Yes votes ...... 1937 / 27.41% No votes

Measure G Transactions & Use Tax -- City of Arcata (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 4359 / 63.49% Yes votes ...... 2507 / 36.51% No votes

Measure H School Bond -- Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 831 / 71.39% Yes votes ...... 333 / 28.61% No votes

Measure I Transactions & Use Tax -- City of Trinidad (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 91 / 51.70% Yes votes ...... 85 / 48.30% No votes

Measure "I" asks the voters whether the City of Trinidad should approve a 0.75% (three-quarters of 1%) increase to the transaction and use tax rate (commonly known as the "sales tax") for four years. Voter approval of this Measure would implement this 0.75% tax as described below, for a period of four years only, effective April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2013.

Measure J Military Recruiting -- City of Eureka (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 4850 / 56.16% Yes votes ...... 3786 / 43.84% No votes