Proposition Summary

Voting Modernization Bond Act of 2002. (Shelley-Hertzberg Act). • This act is to ensure that every person’s vote is accurately counted. • Authorizes the issuance of state bonds allowing counties to purchase modern voting equipment and replace outdated punch card (chad) systems. • Provides for bonds in the amount of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000). • Appropriates money from the state General Fund to pay off bonds. Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: • State costs of about $255 million over ten years to pay off both the principal ($200 million) and interest ($55 million) costs of the bonds. Payments of about $26 million per year. • One-time county costs of about $67 million statewide to match state funds. • Additional annual county operating costs for new voting systems in the several tens of millions of dollars statewide.

Proposition Number

41

Year

2002

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Legislative Vote Results

Final Votes Cast by the Legislature on AB 56 (Proposition 41) -- Assembly: Ayes 71 Noes 7 -- Senate: Ayes 29 Noes 8 --

Popular Vote Results

Y: 2481027; A: 51.6; N: 2332512; B: 48.4

Election Type

Primary

Proposition Type

Bond Act Act

For Author

KEVIN SHELLEY, Assembly Majority Leader; BARBARA INATSUGU, President League of Women Voters of California; BILL JONES, Secretary of State --

Against Author

HONORABLE DENNIS MOUNTJOY, Member of the Assembly, 59th District; JON COUPAL, President Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association; LEWIS K. UHLER, President National Tax Limitation Committee --

Rebuttal Author

HONORABLE DENNIS MOUNTJOY, Member of the Assembly, 59th District; JON COUPAL, President Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association; LEWIS K. UHLER, President National Tax Limitation Committee --

Rebuttal Against Author

KEVIN SHELLEY, Assembly Majority Leader; BILL JONES, Secretary of State; ROBERT HERTZBERG, Assembly Speaker

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