Chris Ayres on Voting and the Issues at Hand

And yet if you spend, say, a minute on each page of the secretary of state’s propositions guide, and five minutes researching each of the 106 candidates, and then an hour on the local propositions, you will have been doing election homework for 12 hours. But here’s the catch: as the turnout for elections falls, so too does the number of signatures you need to get a proposition on the ballot.