Column: What you need to know on Election Day in Long Beach
Tuesday is the last day to vote in the 2024 election, but we at the Watchdog can still help you out.
Tuesday, Nov. 5 is finally here, which is the last day to vote in the 2024 election.
Not sure of the location of your polling place? Click here.
Need to find a drop box for your ballot? Click here.
Already voted by mail but don't know if your ballot has been counted? Click here.
Unsure of your voter registration status? Click here.
Confused by all the city, county and state propositions on this year's ballot? So were we, until the Watchdog's own Jason Ruiz wrote handy explainers on the most important ones:
- Measure AC, which would give Long Beach Community College District the authority to issue up to $990 million in bonds to upgrade the college's aging facilities
- Measure JB, which would merge the City of Long Beach's Civil Service Department and Human Resources Department to remedy its glacial hiring process.
- Measure A, which would see a nearly 10-year-old county tax to fund homelessness initiatives (Measure H) replaced with a new permanent tax that would double the portion of local sales taxes collected for homelessness and affordable housing projects.
- Measure G, which would expand the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from five to nine, make the county executive an elected position and create a new county legislative analyst to provide the board with non-partisan takes on policies and a county ethics commission that could investigate misconduct by county officials.
- Proposition 36, a state measure that would allow people to be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony after two theft offenses regardless of whether the items stolen were valued under $950 and would create a “treatment-mandated felony” for repeat drug offenders.
Also, please keep in mind that it's highly unlikely we'll know all the results Tuesday night.
Lastly, if you feel this election has been unusually stressful, know that you're not alone. It's perfectly okay (and might even be necessary) to put aside polls and even early returns and go distract yourself with a hobby, a walk on the beach or even just mindless relaxation.
Given what we've all been through this past year, you deserve it.
We need your support.
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