Registered voters will elect a new governor Tuesday. The leading candidates are Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown. Top ballot measures include Prop D (sales tax to bolster the city budget), Prop J (parcel tax to help schools) and Prop 19 (legalization of marijuana). <\/i>
Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr.<\/b> \u2022 Born in San Francisco on April 7, 1938 \u2022 Graduate of University of California at Berkeley and Yale Law School \u2022 Elected California secretary of state. (1970) \u2022 Elected governor of California (1974, reelected 1978) \u2022 President of the University of California Regents \u2022 Elected mayor of Oakland (1998, re-elected 2002) \u2022 Elected California attorney general (2006) Margaret Cushing “Meg” Whitman<\/b> \u2022 Born Aug. 4, 1956 in Long Island, N.Y. \u2022 Graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School \u2022 Vice president at Bain & Co. \u2022 Held executive positions at Disney, Stride Rite, FTD and Hasbro \u2022 Joined eBay (1997) and became its president and CEO \u2022 National co-chair for McCain-Palin campaign \u2022 Announced candidacy for California governor (February 2009) Voting facts<\/b> \u2022 Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 2. \u2022 Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. \u2022 Each registered voter should have received a sample ballot in the mail. Your polling place is listed on the back. \u2022 A poll worker at your polling place will check for your name and address on a list of registered voters. \u2022 San Diego voters will mark paper ballots with a felt marker. \u2022 Ask a poll worker for help if confused about how to use the voting apparatus. \u2022 If a voter makes a mistake on their ballot, they will get two more tries at marking it correctly. \u2022 At 8 p.m. sharp, according to the synchronized time display on each precinct inspector\u2019s cell phone, the last voters must be in line to cast their ballots. \u2022 Voters may also vote at the Registrar of Voters office, 5201 Ruffin Road, on Saturday, Oct. 30 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; or Tuesday, Nov. 2 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. \u2022 For more information, visit sdvote.com. Early voting<\/b> \u2022 Absentee voters are encouraged to mail ballots by Friday, Oct. 29. \u2022 Absentee ballots must arrive at the Registrar of Voters office no later than 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2 (postmarks not accepted). \u2022 Ballots may be dropped off at the registrar\u2019s office, Friday, Saturday and Monday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., or Tuesday between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Voting machines<\/b> \u2022 In addition to paper ballots, at least one electronic voting machine will be available at each polling place. The machines can be especially helpful for voters with impaired vision or dexterity limitations. Voters with disabilities may expect to use the AccuVote-TSX unit for accessible voting.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Registered voters will elect a new governor Tuesday. The leading candidates are Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown. Top ballot measures include Prop D (sales tax to bolster the city budget), Prop J (parcel tax to help schools) and Prop 19 (legalization of marijuana). Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr. \u2022 Born in San Francisco […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":256525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Election Day is Nov. 2","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}