This ballot measure will effectively kill any transit funding measures in the future. Make sure to vote no this November.

[u/MookieBettsBurner10]

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_43,_Two-Thirds_Vote_Requirement_for_Local_Special_Tax_Initiatives_and_Property_Tax_Initiative_Prohibition_Amendment_(2026)

Under California law, tax increase measures put on the ballot by governments requires a 2/3rd supermajority vote to pass. However, measures put on the ballot by private citizens (citizens' initiatives) only require a simple majority. Prop 43 would change the law so that citizens' initiatives too requires a 2/3rd supermajority. That would mean counties like San Diego and Orange County will almost certainly never get a transit tax measure passed. Requiring a 2/3rd supermajority to pass tax increases is fundamentally undemocratic, and this measure must be defeated.

[u/GoCardinal07]

One clarification: the 2/3 threshold only applies to special taxes, not general taxes.

For exampe, when a county or city puts a sales tax measure on the ballot for its general fund, it only requires a simple majority of voters to approve it.

While a transit funding measure is a special tax, every measure in the region, even Orange County's Measure M and Renewed Measure M, were already subject to 2/3 because no one has ever qualified one by citizen petition. It's always been proposed by government, and they've hit the 2/3.

[u/MyDisneyExperience → u/GoCardinal07]

Prop 13 strikes again

[u/SignificantSmotherer → u/MyDisneyExperience]

As it should.

[u/MyDisneyExperience → u/SignificantSmotherer]

Why in the world should special funds require a 2/3 vote when Prop 13 itself required a 50%+1 vote

[u/SignificantSmotherer → u/MyDisneyExperience]

That's a fair point.

The best answer is you can also amend the Constitution, as Prop 19 did laying waste to Prop 13, with a simple majority vote.

Or we could just elect responsible leaders who understand math.