Combined ballot

See Also:   Information for the County of Marin
(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 Legislative

United States Representative; District 6

• Lynn Woolsey, Democratic
  210,363 votes 71.8%
• Michael Halliwell, Republican
  70,541 votes 24.0%
• Joel Smolen, Libertarian
  12,394 votes 4.2%

State Senate

State Senator; District 3

• Mark Leno, Democratic
  314,152 votes 80.4%
• Sashi McEntee, Republican
  76,723 votes 19.6%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 6

• Jared Huffman, Democratic
  137,873 votes 69.8%
• Paul Lavery, Republican
  47,102 votes 23.8%
• Timothy Hannan, Libertarian
  12,799 votes 6.4%

School

Board Member; Sausalito Marin City School District (2 Elected)

• Karen Marie Benjamin
  2782 votes 28.83%
• William J. Ziegler
  2185 votes 22.64%
• Thomas H. Clark
  1682 votes 17.43%
• George T. Stratigos
  1297 votes 13.44%
• Elizabeth Grace Todd-Gallardo
  1294 votes 13.41%
• Peter Christian Romanowsky
  390 votes 4.04%
• (21 Total Write-In Votes 0.22%)

Council Member; City of Sausalito (3 Elected)

• Michael Kelly
  2159 votes 21.51%
• Amy Belser
  2053 votes 20.45%
• Linda Pfeifer
  1751 votes 17.45%
• Susan Roe
  1347 votes 13.42%
• Vicki Nichols
  1153 votes 11.49%
• Peter Sealey
  798 votes 7.95%
• Manouchehr Mike Monsef
  733 votes 7.30%
• (43 Total Write-In Votes 0.43%)

Special District

Director; Bolinas Fire Protection District (3 Elected)

• David L. Kimball
  706 votes 39.53%
• Sheila O'Donnell
  491 votes 27.49%
• Shannon C. Kilkenny
  440 votes 24.64%
• Donald G. Holmes
  130 votes 7.28%
• (19 Total Write-In Votes 1.06%)

Director; Marin Healthcare District (2 Elected)

• Sharon J. Jackson
  43726 votes 29.54%
• Harris "Hank" Simmonds
  35729 votes 24.13%
• Archimedes Ramirez
  33449 votes 22.59%
• Frank Parnell
  31165 votes 21.05%
• Peter Christian Romanowsky
  3562 votes 2.41%
• (408 Total Write-In Votes 0.28%)

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 A Special Assessment for Educational Programs and Services -- Mill Valley School District (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 13607 / 74.40% Yes votes ...... 4683 / 25.60% No votes

To protect educational quality; attract and keep high-quality teachers; maintain library services and P.E. programs; preserve small neighborhood schools and class sizes; and prevent significant budget cuts due to reductions in State education funding; shall the Mill Valley School District amend its existing parcel tax for local elementary and middle schools, increasing it by $193 and extending it for four years, while continuing existing accountability measures and with all revenues spent in Mill Valley schools?

Measure B Fiscal Management Consolidation Act -- County of Marin (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 71158 / 59.48% Yes votes ...... 48482 / 40.52% No votes

Shall the County of Marin establish an appointed director of finance consolidating the offices of auditor, controller, tax collector and treasurer, and create an appointed public administrator, with the provision that an annual independent audit be conducted and that the director of finance can only be removed with a public hearing and 4/5 vote of the Board of Supervisors?

Measure C Ordinance Requiring the Use of Recyclable Paper or Reusable Bags -- Town of Fairfax (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 3705 / 78.51% Yes votes ...... 1014 / 21.49% No votes

To reduce plastic pollution, dependence on foreign oil, impacts to marine ecosystems and unsightly litter, shall an ordinance be adopted to require the use of recyclable paper and/or reusable checkout bags by all shops, stores, eating places and retail food vendors located in the Town of Fairfax, and provide penalties for violations?

Measure D Shall Town Clerk be an appointive position? -- Town of Fairfax (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 1989 / 49.07% Yes votes ...... 2064 / 50.93% No votes

Shall the office of Town Clerk be appointive?

Measure E Twin Cities Public Safety Building/911 Response Improvement Measure -- Twin Cities Police Authority (Bond Measure - 2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 8449 / 69.32% Yes votes ...... 3739 / 30.68% No votes

To improve 911 emergency response, ensure disaster preparedness, and maintain school/community policing, shall Twin Cities Police Authority Community Facilities District No. 2008-1 be authorized to finance/ equip an energy efficient earthquake safe police/emergency operations center and upgrade emergency communications systems by issuing $20,000,000 in bonds, be authorized to levy special taxes to pay bonds and District costs, and initial annual $2,100,000 appropriations limit; requiring citizen's oversight, annual audits and allowing low-income exemptions?

Measure F Increase District Appropriations Limit (Fire Protection/Emergency Services) -- Marinwood Community Services District (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 1996 / 79.40% Yes votes ...... 518 / 20.60% No votes

Shall the appropriations limit established for Marinwood Community Services District pursuant to Article XIII B of the California Constitution be increased over the appropriations limit established by said article for each of the fiscal years 2008-09 through 2011-12 in the amount equal to the revenue received from the special tax for fire protection services previously approved by the voters in November 2003?

Measure G Increase District Appropriations Limit (Park Maintenance) -- Marinwood Community Services District (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 1904 / 75.95% Yes votes ...... 603 / 24.05% No votes

Shall the appropriations limit established for Marinwood Community Services District pursuant to Article XIII B of the California Constitution be increased over the appropriations limit established by said article for each of the four fiscal years 2009-10 through 2012-13 in the amount equal to the revenue received from the special tax for park maintenance services previously approved by the voters in March, 2005?

Measure Q 1/4-Cent Sales Tax for SMART Passenger Rail Train -- County of Marin (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 246,047 / 69.6% Yes votes ...... 107,681 / 30.4% No votes
   83805 (62.79%) Yes / 49665 (37.21%) No in Marin County
   162,242 (73.7%) Yes / 58,016 (26.3%) No in Sonoma County

To relieve traffic, fight global warming and increase transportation options, shall Sonoma- Marin Area Rail Transit District be authorized to provide two-way passenger train service every 30 minutes during weekday rush hours, weekend service, a bicycle/pedestrian pathway linking the stations, and connections to ferry/bus service, by levying a 1/4-cent sales tax for 20 years, with an annual spending cap, independent audits/oversight, and all funds supporting these environmentally responsible transportation alternatives in Marin and Sonoma Counties?