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Debra Bowen
3,541,949 votes
48.2%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: State Senator
- Chair, Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee
- State Assemblymember 1992-1998
Priorities:
- Ensure our voting systems are accurate and secure by introducing strict auditing requirements so that every vote is counted as it was cast.
- Improve disclosure of campaign contributions to candidates and ballot initiatives so people can easily track how the money flows in politics.
- Register every eligible voter, encourage every voter to participate on Election Day and ensure that every vote is counted accurately.
Bruce McPherson
3,306,626 votes
45.0%
- Party: Republican
- Occupation: Appointed Secretary of State
- Served in the California State Legislature for 11 years
- While in the Assembly Served as the Chair of the Elections and Reapportionment Committee
- Editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel from 1967-1992
- Graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Priorities:
- Protecting the Integrity of Every Vote
- Making the campaign reporting process efficient and transparent
- Processing California Business claims in an effcient manner
Forrest Hill
154,791 votes
2.2%
- Party: Green
- Occupation: Financial Advisor
- Ph.D. from MIT in Biological Oceanography
- Former research scientist, Institute of Theoretical Dynamics at UC Davis
- Developer of salmon recovery models for the California Department of Fish and Game, the Sonoma County Water Agency, and the Nez Pearce Indians
- Specialize in Socially Responsible Investing using investments for economic, social, and environmental transformation
- Published author of articles on voting systems and election reform
- Former member of the United Transpiration Union
Priorities:
- Ensuring our voting systems are accurate, accessible, and produce a voter verified paper ballot
- Ending corporate control of political campaigns through Clean Money legislation
- Increasing political diversity through Instant Runoff Voting and proportional voting
Gail K. Lightfoot
149,738 votes
2.0%
- Party: Libertarian
- Occupation: Retired Nurse
- Education: Nursing, Early Childhood Education
- Chair, Libertarian Party of California, 1990, 1995-96
- Native Californian, 7 years in Kodiak, Alaska (1945-1952)
- RN, Public Health Nurse
- Local Chapter President, American Assoc. Critical Care Nurses, 1975
- ICU-CCU, ER, IV, MICU certificated
Priorities:
- Increase voter awareness of choices - Fully Inform Voters with easy to understand and complete voting materials
- None of the Above option in all elections and Instant Runoff voting in partisan elections.
- Provide easy access to State Archives and Library [at no cost] to promote literacy
Glenn McMillon, Jr.
118,518 votes
1.6%
- Party: American Independent
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
- Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Former Tresurer of MIT Pro-Life Organization
- Twenty-one year California resident; attended California public schools
Priorities:
- Prevent election fraud by requiring photo ID and proof of citizenship to register and to cast a vote
- Reqiure electronic voting machines to print paper readouts for voters and elections officials
- Increase exposure of small parties and allow ranked-choice/instant-runoff voting.
Margie Akin
77,982 votes
1.0%
- Party: Peace and Freedom
- Occupation: Archaeologist/Medical Anthropologist
- Dr. Akin has lived in California since 1960. She attended California public schools.
- Dr. Akin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1992. She worked her way through school with 4 children.
- Dr. Akin's first political activity was on behalf of the Farmworkers Union in 1965, She helped organize local demonstrations against the Vietnam War,
- She was President of Riverside Federation of Teachers and Trustee of the Central Labor Council in the 1980s
- In 1999 Margie began pioneering work in Medical Anthropology focused on providing better service to immigrants and cultural minorities in California.
- She has years of experience working to provide broader access to health care for linguistic and cultural minorities
Priorities:
- Corrupt voting machine corporations have too much influence, excessive purging of voter rolls has disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters
- Business Records and Registration: Difficult procedures should be simplified and basic help for businessess should be provided in English and Spanish
- A special program is needed to pull together records in the State Archives relating to Native American Indians and other under-represented communities
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