Kate Slate – November 5, 2024

Posted: October 18th, 2024 | Author: Kate Michelle McCarthy | Filed under: Elections, Kate Slate | Comments Off on Kate Slate – November 5, 2024

Hello Voter!

This is the Kate Slate for the November 5, 2024, Consolidated Presidential Election in San Francisco. The goal of the Kate Slate is to encourage others to vote. If you’d like to learn more about the Kate Slate, scroll down to the end.

Please vote on or before Tuesday, November 5, 2024. In fact, bonus points if you vote early. San Francisco polls are open and I already received my ballot! 

Here is how you can vote this year:

• Vote by mail. All registered voters were to be mailed a ballot for this election. You must return your ballot on time to be counted. If you return your ballot by mail, make sure it’s postmarked by November 5 (check collection times if you use a USPS mailbox). You can also return your ballot at your polling place on Election Day, November 5, 2024. You may also authorize another person to drop off your ballot for you. Follow the directions in your ballot package.
• Vote using a Voter Drop Box. San Francisco provides 37 drop boxes across San Francisco where you can return your ballot. These boxes are available 24/7 through 8 p.m. on Election Day, November 5.
• Vote at the Voting Center. The Voting Center is open as of October 7 to provide ballots and services to all city residents who wish to pick up or drop off vote-by-mail ballots, register to vote (before or after the registration deadline), obtain personal assistance, use accessible voting equipment, obtain replacement ballots, and cast their ballots in person. This is a great resource if you make an error on your ballot and need to get a new one (as is your polling place on Election Day).
• Vote in person at your polling place. Your polling place is open November 5, 2024, 7am to 8pm. They will also assist you if you make an error on your ballot and need a new one.

Even if you miss the October 21, 2024, deadline to register to vote in this election, you can still vote provisionally at all polling places in San Francisco, as well as the City Hall Voting Center. Provided you are eligible to vote in San Francisco and have not cast another ballot, your ballot will be counted. 

Go vote. Make sure you, and the voters you know, have a plan to vote. Once you vote, you can track your ballot using the very cool voter portal, no matter how you plan to vote. But make a plan to vote. My plan is to drop my ballot off in a Voter Drop Box in my neighborhood now that I have this Kate Slate drafted. 

Feel free to forward the Kate Slate to friends (and friends, if someone other than me–Kate–sent this to you feel free to drop me a line if you end up reading it, I like to hear who this made its way to, and I can add you to the email list for the next Kate Slate).

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Local Offices

• SFUSD Board of Education (up to four): Virginia Cheung, Jaime Huling, Matt Alexander
• City College Board of Trustees (up to four): Alan Wong
• BART Board Director, District 7: Victor Flores
• BART Board Director, District 9: Edward Wright
• Mayor: #1 Aaron Peskin, #2 London Breed
• Supervisor, District 1: Connie Chan
• Supervisor, District 3: #1 Sharon Lai, #2 Moe Jamil
• Supervisor, District 5: Dean Preston
• Supervisor, District 7: Myrna Melgar
• Supervisor, District 9: #1 Jackie Fielder, #2 Stephen Torres, #3 Julian Bermudez
• Supervisor, District 11: #1 Ernest “EJ” Jones, #2 Chyanne Chen
• City Attorney: Abstain
• District Attorney: Ryan Khojasteh
• Sheriff: Michael Juan
• Treasurer: Jose Cisneros

State Propositions

• Prop 2: Bonds for public school and community college facilities: Yes
• Prop 3 – Constitutional right to marriage: Yes
• Prop 4 – Bonds for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention: Yes
• Prop 5 – Allows local bonds for affordable housing and public infrastructure with 55% voter approval: Yes
• Prop 6 – Eliminates constitutional provision allowing involuntary servitude: YES!
• Prop 32 – Raises minimum wage: YES!
• Prop 33 – Expands local governments’ authority to enact rent control: YES!
• Prop 34 – Restricts spending of prescription drug revenues by certain health care providers: No
• Prop 35 – Provides permanent funding for Medi-Cal: Yes
• Prop 36 – Allows felony charges and increases sentences for certain drug and theft crimes: NO!

Local Propositions

• Prop A – Bonds to improve earthquake safety and accessibility at San Francisco schools: Yes
• Prop B – Healthy, safe, and vibrant San Francisco bond: Yes
• Prop C – Amend the City Charter to create the new position of Inspector General: Yes
• Prop D – Amend the City Charter to limit commissions: NO!
• Prop E – Amend the City Charter to create a commission Task Force: Yes
• Prop F – Amend the City Charter to allow deferred retirement for police: NO!
• Prop G – Amend the City Charter to require affordable housing funding for seniors and low-income families: Yes
• Prop H – Amend the City Charter to change pension formula for SF Fire Department: No
• Prop I – Amend the City Charter to allow member nurses of SF Employees’ Retirement System to purchase credit: no
• Prop J – Amend the City Charter to ensure effective City funding for children, youth, and families: Yes
• Prop K – Use the Upper Great Highway as public open recreation space permanently closed to cars: YES
• Prop L – Tax TNCs and autonomous vehicles to fund Muni and discount fares: Yes!
• Prop M – Permanently change the taxes it collects from businesses: Abstain