Those two amendments are interesting: the tax one has been on the ballot many times in recent years, but never seems to pass, and the right-to-work one would just incorporate a 70-year-old law into the constitution, which does little in practice other than make it harder to overturn at some ambiguous point in the future We also had a handful of bond measures on the county level, including one for the much-maligned Metro which seems to hemorrhage money even faster than it hemorrhages ridership. Our congressman ran unopposed, but I've been less than impressed with his work on a variety of issues (including Metro), so I ended up writing myself in for that one EDIT: The race for the 10th congressional district is fascinatingly close at this point. With around 85,000 votes counted, they're less than 200 votes apart. Loudon County has long been a bellwether, but this seems crazy even for them The ridiculous annual voting process is one of the reasons I'm glad I left California. Yes, there are a few select things that should be left to the voters, but most of those things should be decided by the legislature. What's the point of electing (and paying for) representatives if you have to research and vote for every single issue yourself?
