Combined ballot

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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%
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)

US Legislative

United States Representative; District 1

• Mike Thompson, Democratic
  181,766 votes 68.4%
• Zane Starkewolf, Republican
  61,833 votes 23.2%
• Carol Wolman, Green
  22,430 votes 8.4%
• Pamela Elizondo (Write-in)

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 1

• Wesley Chesbro, Democratic
  118,623 votes 70.9%
• Jim Pell, Republican
  48,755 votes 29.1%

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%

Member of the State Assembly; District 7

• Noreen Evans, Democratic
  119,070 votes 71.8%
• Doris Gentry, Republican
  46,778 votes 28.2%

School

Member; Sonoma County Board of Education; Trustee Area 1

• Alex Bantis
  13,981 votes 50.7%
• John A. Musilli
  13,599 votes 49.3%
• (85 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

Board Member; Sonoma County Junior College District - Santa Rosa Area (2 Elected)

• Richard W. "Rick" Call
  42,271 votes 40.1%
• Don Edgar
  31,783 votes 30.1%
• Keith Woods
  31,425 votes 29.8%
• (257 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

Board Member; Calistoga Joint Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Mary Burke Montez
  161 votes 27.1%
• Paul Schlieder
  124 votes 20.9%
• Marty Hunt
  118 votes 19.9%
• Marco Di Giulio
  102 votes 17.2%
• Michael Feiner
  89 votes 15.0%

Board Member; Cloverdale Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Karen J. Scalabrini
  2,747 votes 29.0%
• Dianna Mac Donald
  2,650 votes 28.0%
• Dick Johnson
  2,161 votes 22.8%
• Daniel L. Bunting
  1,908 votes 20.2%
• (6 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Board Member; Cotati/Rohnert Park Unified School District (2 Elected)

• Ed Gilardi
  10,050 votes 35.2%
• Karyn Pulley
  9,352 votes 32.8%
• Marc Orloff
  9,125 votes 32.0%
• (86 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

Board Member; Windsor Unified School District (2 Elected)

• George R. Valenzuela
  6,626 votes 38.8%
• Ted Seche
  5,917 votes 34.7%
• Shari Kirichenko-Egan
  4,521 votes 26.5%
• (23 Total Write-In Votes 0.2%)

Board Member; Bellevue Union School District (2 Elected)

• Debra A. Mills
  2,771 votes 36.4%
• Yvonne L. Kennedy
  2,424 votes 31.9%
• Katherine Holden
  2,408 votes 31.7%
• (23 Total Write-In Votes 0.4%)

Board Member; Forestville Union School District (2 Elected)

• Jean Bullard
  1,883 votes 37.5%
• Guy Eck
  1,583 votes 31.5%
• Ron Abler
  1,552 votes 30.9%
• (15 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

Board Member; Liberty School District (2 Elected)

• Geraldine T. Johnston
  689 votes 43.8%
• Ronald K. Evenich
  633 votes 40.2%
• Albert J. Romano
  252 votes 16.0%
• (5 Total Write-In Votes 0.4%)

County

County Supervisor; Sonoma County; Supervisorial District 1

• Valerie K. Brown
  23,912 votes 51.4%
• Will Pier
  22,615 votes 48.6%
• (130 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

County Supervisor; Sonoma County; Supervisorial District 3

• Shirlee Zane
  20,002 votes 55.2%
• Sharon Wright
  16,245 votes 44.8%
• (166 Total Write-In Votes 0.5%)

County Supervisor; Sonoma County; Supervisorial District 5

• Efren Carrillo
  20,550 votes 50.7%
• Rue Furch
  19,945 votes 49.3%
• (132 Total Write-In Votes 0.4%)

Council Member, 4 Year; City of Santa Rosa (4 Elected)

• Gary Wysocky
  29,018 votes 13.7%
• John Sawyer
  27,870 votes 13.2%
• Ernesto Olivares
  26,288 votes 12.4%
• Marsha Vas Dupre
  23,894 votes 11.3%
• Lee Pierce
  22,037 votes 10.4%
• Don Taylor
  21,262 votes 10.1%
• Michael Allen
  18,974 votes 9.0%
• Bobbi Hoff
  15,622 votes 7.4%
• Carol Dean
  14,013 votes 6.6%
• Eddie Alvarez
  7,601 votes 3.6%
• Hans Dippel
  4,905 votes 2.3%
• (192 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Council Member; City of Santa Rosa

• Jane Bender
  26,425 votes 45.6%
• Judy Kennedy
  12,342 votes 21.3%
• David Rosas
  11,372 votes 19.6%
• Lawrence R. Wiesner
  7,866 votes 13.6%
• (192 Total Write-In Votes 0.4%)

Council Member, 4 Year; City of Cloverdale (2 Elected)

• Mary Ann Brigham
  2,227 votes 39.5%
• Augustine Gus Wolter
  1,759 votes 31.2%
• Luciano "Lou" Toninato
  1,649 votes 29.3%
• (6 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Council Member; City of Cloverdale

• Jessalee Raymond
  2,711 votes 100.0%
• (50 Total Write-In Votes 2.0%)

City Clerk; City of Cloverdale

• Michele Penirian Winterbottom
  2,746 votes 100.0%
• (31 Total Write-In Votes 1.2%)

Council Member; City of Cotati (3 Elected)

• Janet Orchard
  1,594 votes 20.2%
• Robert Coleman
  1,593 votes 20.2%
• George Barich
  1,296 votes 16.4%
• Mike Kurvers
  1,291 votes 16.3%
• Susan Harvey
  1,235 votes 15.6%
• Eric Kirchmann
  892 votes 11.3%
• (10 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Council Member; City of Healdsburg (3 Elected)

• Mike McGuire
  4,437 votes 35.6%
• Tom Chambers
  3,031 votes 24.3%
• Gary W. Plass
  2,928 votes 23.5%
• Tony Pastene
  2,053 votes 16.5%
• (10 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Council Member; City of Petaluma (3 Elected)

• David Glass
  14,606 votes 22.4%
• Mike Healy
  12,082 votes 18.5%
• Tiffany Renee
  11,475 votes 17.6%
• Karen Nau
  10,744 votes 16.5%
• Samantha Freitas
  8,973 votes 13.7%
• Spence F. Burton
  7,411 votes 11.4%
• (49 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Council Member; City of Rohnert Park (3 Elected)

• Gina Belforte
  6,775 votes 17.3%
• Jake Mackenzie
  6,064 votes 15.5%
• Joseph T. Callinan
  6,049 votes 15.5%
• John Borba
  5,833 votes 14.9%
• Tim Smith
  5,206 votes 13.3%
• Vicki Vidak-Martinez
  4,671 votes 11.9%
• Dawna Gallagher
  4,535 votes 11.6%
• (62 Total Write-In Votes 0.2%)

Council Member; City of Sebastopol (2 Elected)

• Kathleen Shaffer
  2,382 votes 35.4%
• Guy Wilson
  2,382 votes 35.4%
• Jen Thille
  1,540 votes 22.9%
• Colleen Fernald
  427 votes 6.3%
• (10 Total Write-In Votes 0.2%)

Council Member; Town of Windsor (2 Elected)

• Debora Fudge
  6,709 votes 36.9%
• Cheryl Scholar
  4,905 votes 27.0%
• Julie Adamson
  3,322 votes 18.3%
• Leroy "Lee" Dysart
  3,226 votes 17.8%
• (19 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Special District

Board Member; Rincon Valley Fire Protection District (3 Elected)

• Patricia P. Waldow
  6,778 votes 28.8%
• Darrel J. Mead
  6,712 votes 28.5%
• James M. Bouler
  5,909 votes 25.1%
• John Hamann
  4,175 votes 17.7%
• (31 Total Write-In Votes 0.2%)

Board Member; Valley of the Moon Fire Protection District (3 Elected)

• Dawn Mittleman
  5,038 votes 29.7%
• William Norton
  4,866 votes 28.7%
• Ray Brunton
  4,465 votes 26.3%
• Elissa Wadleigh
  2,605 votes 15.3%
• (36 Total Write-In Votes 0.2%)

Board Member; Windsor Fire Protection District (3 Elected)

• Victor Pozzi
  5,120 votes 23.3%
• John D. Nelson
  4,772 votes 21.7%
• Adam Joseph Brolan
  4,494 votes 20.4%
• Richard Olufs
  4,426 votes 20.1%
• Myron Steele
  3,207 votes 14.6%
• (27 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Board Member; Petaluma Health Care District (3 Elected)

• Fran Adams
  15,967 votes 22.3%
• Stephen Steady
  13,798 votes 19.3%
• Robert Ostroff
  12,124 votes 17.0%
• Liz Close
  11,113 votes 15.6%
• Robert C. Hill
  9,445 votes 13.2%
• Gerald S. Besses
  9,011 votes 12.6%
• (77 Total Write-In Votes 0.1%)

Board Member; Sonoma Valley Health Care District (3 Elected)

• Peter Hohorst
  9,360 votes 30.5%
• Madolyn Agrimonti
  7,327 votes 23.9%
• Bill Boerum
  7,135 votes 23.3%
• Bill Gurry
  6,861 votes 22.4%
• (77 Total Write-In Votes 0.3%)

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 J Bond -- Bellevue Union School District (55% of the voters who vote on the measure must approve it)
Pass: 3,953 / 68.7% Yes votes ...... 1,802 / 31.3% No votes

To build new classrooms to avoid overcrowding, replace old heating, plumbing and electrical systems with energy efficient systems, build a multipurpose room at Taylor Mountain Elementary and repair or replace aging roofs, shall the Bellevue Union Elementary School District be authorized to issue $19,000,000 in bonds at legal interest rates with no funds for administrator salaries and an Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee to monitor all bond expenditures?

Measure K Reduce Wastewater & Water Rates -- City of Petaluma (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 11,954 / 45.4% Yes votes ...... 14,351 / 54.6% No votes

Shall an ordinance be adopted to reduce City of Petaluma wastewater and water service rates to rates in effect on January 1, 2006 and provide for specified annual adjustments thereto?

Measure L Reduce Sewer Rates -- City of Rohnert Park
8,424 / 52.8% Yes votes ...... 7,533 / 47.2% No votes

Shall the ordinance to reduce City of Rohnert Park's current sewer service rates to rates in effect on January 1, 2006, be adopted?

Measure M Utility User Tax -- City of Sebastopol (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 2,473 / 59.5% Yes votes ...... 1,684 / 40.5% No votes

To help preserve Sebastopol's safety and quality of life and maintain essential general fund services such as police, fire, and street maintenance, shall an ordinance be adopted to establish a utility tax to be known as the "Utility Users Tax" on gas and electric service only, that cannot exceed four percent and this is limited to six years and providing for the collection of same with certain exemptions and conditions?

Measure N Transient Occupancy Tax -- Town of Windsor (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 8,035 / 70.2% Yes votes ...... 3,407 / 29.8% No votes

Shall the Town of Windsor Municipal Code be amended to increase the transient occupancy tax, commonly called the "hotel tax," which is charged only on persons who occupy hotel rooms in the Town for 30 days or less, from 8 percent to 12 percent in order to contribute funding towards basic Town services such as police, street repair, park maintenance, and community programs?

Measure O Improve Fire and Emergency Protection Services -- Gold Ridge Fire Protection District (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 6,773 / 76.0% Yes votes ...... 2,139 / 24.0% No votes

Shall Ordinance No. 08-09-1-R of the Gold Ridge Fire Protection District authorizing it to impose and levy a new special tax of $45.00 on all improved parcels of real property within the Fire Protection District to assist in meeting costs of providing services and exercising rights and powers be approved?

Measure P Bond -- Sonoma Valley Health Care District (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 14,858 / 80.8% Yes votes ...... 3,531 / 19.2% No votes

To preserve essential emergency services by upgrading existing outdated buildings and equipment, meet state-mandated earthquake safety standards, upgrade energy, electrical, surgical and information technology systems, rebuild the hospital's central utility plant, and refinance debt incurred to retrofit the west wing of the main hospital building, shall the Sonoma Valley Health Care District issue $35 million in bonds, none of which will pay staff salaries, with expenditures to be monitored by an independent citizens' oversight committee?

Measure Q Smart Quarter Cent Sales Tax -- Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District (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?