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A ballot measure to partially dismantle California's longtime system of tying property taxes to the last sales price was trailing narrowly Tuesday with several million votes still to be counted.
Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services have prevailed in their expensive gamble to keep drivers classified as independent contractors.
Sonoma County's Measure O, which will provide $25 million a year for mental health and homelessness services over ten years, appeared to be headed for voter approval, according to unofficial election returns reported Tuesday night.
Different school bond measures got mixed results in Tuesday's election as Solano County voters approved a $45.7 million bond for River Delta Unified School District but rejected two others.
Voters in Santa Rosa appeared ready to elect two new City Council members and welcome back two incumbents based on unofficial vote tallies from the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters, early Wednesday morning.
In Walnut Creek, where four of eight City Council candidates were drawn into the race in reaction to social justice issues, two of the three incumbents on the ballot will be re-elected, to be joined by a former city planning commissioner.
A Sonoma County measure to strengthen the office that oversees the Sheriff's Office seemed on the way to approval based on the unofficial vote tally from county elections officials Tuesday night.
Voters have rejected a measure that would have let California cities expand rent control. Proposition 21 would have let cities limit rent hikes on properties that are more than 15 years old.
California has upheld several criminal justice changes, endorsing recent efforts to ease mass incarceration by reducing penalties and allowing for earlier releases. Voters also appeared likely to maintain the state's current cash bail system as a majority opted for the status quo on both criminal justice ballot measures.
A ballot measure restoring the right to vote for felons on parole has been decisively passed by California voters.
A measure to refine and expand California's sweeping digital privacy law was leading Tuesday night with 57% of more than nine million votes counted and 55 percent of precincts reporting.
A proposition that would keep alive first-of-its-kind stem cell research program in the East Bay was leading after the polls closed on Tuesday.
Many Bay Area state legislators managed to keep their jobs as votes were tallied Tuesday night.
Joe Biden won California and its 55 electoral votes Tuesday, tightening the Democrats' grip on the nation's most populous state.
California voters have rejected a ballot measure to require a doctor or highly trained nurse at each of California's 600 dialysis clinics.
