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2024 CA PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS

Thank you for participating in the school wide election simulation!

(These are NOT the results of the actual election; to see those results click here)

PARTICIPATION: Frosh Sophomores Juniors Seniors Total

124 (34%) 75 (21%) 105 (29%) 57 (16%) 361

RESULTS (Number following name is how many votes were cast):

President:

Democratic: Republican: Green: Libertarian: None/No Party: Error/ Blank: Biden: 130 Trump: 26. Stein: 7 Ballay: 5 14 74

Phillips: 48 Haley: 22

Williamson: 35

In the following contests, the TOP TWO finishers (in bold) would move on to the general election in November. See real world election results to see if our choices matched up:

US Congress, District 10: US Senate: State Assembly, District 16: State Senate: Proposition 1:

Mark DeSaulnier (D): 261 Garvey (R): 53 Rebecca Bauer Kahan (D): 270 Tim Grayson (D): 162 YES: 206

Nolan Lee Chen (R): 62 Lee (D): 112 Joseph Rubay (R): 73 Marisol Rubio (D): 188 NO: 105

Katherine Piccinini (R): 28 Porter (D): 103 No Answer: 18 No Answer: 11 No Answer: 50

No Answer: 10 Schiff (D): 82

No Answer: 11

MARCH 2024 ELECTION - AFTERMATH

NY Times: California Primary Election Results
Opponents to Prop. 1 — Gavin Newsom’s mental health plan — concede it’s likely to pass Proposition One looks likely to pass. What does it do? Proposition 1 is a two-part ballot initiative. It includes a bond to build treatment facilities and permanent supportive housing for people with mental health and addiction challenges. It also proposes changes to a longstanding tax on personal incomes over $1 million, known as the Mental Health Services Act, by requiring counties to spend 30% of that revenue on housing instead of other services.
California’s primary turnout not a record low, but vote count still slow Based on today’s updated umbers, the total of 7.5 million votes means a turnout of about 34%, well below the norm for presidential primaries, but not the record low that some analysts projected based on early numbers.
Public Policy Institute of CA (March 2024 Report): Do Registration Reforms Add New Voters or Keep Californians Registered? This new report examines how address updates and new registrations have changed in the voter file over the last few years, looking at race/ethnicity and age, and places California’s changes in a national context to better understand the contributing role of automatic voter registration.

VOTER GUIDES & CANDIDATE/PROP INFORMATION

GUIDES TO THE CA 2024 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION

OTHER LOCAL RACES ON THE BALLOT IN CALIFORNIA

SF Chronicle Endorses Tim Grayson to Replace Steve Glazer

California's 10th Congressional District 2024 Election
Mark Desaulnier currently holds the office of Representative to the US Congress for District 10. He is up for re-election and has several challengers.
CA State Assembly Election for District 16
Scroll down to DISTRICT 16 to see the candidates:
Incumbent: Rebecca Kahan Bauer (D)
Challenger: Joseph Rubay (R)

INFO ABOUT PROP 1

SF Chronicle Endorses Prop 1

2024 Primary Election Information

GENERAL INFO ON CANDIDATES & ELECTIONS:

CANDIDATES: DEMOCRATS

The Democratic Party is Running on Democracy. Long-shot Candidates Cry Hypocrisy

Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI

CANDIDATES: REPUBLICANS

The gamble Republicans are about to take on Trump

CANDIDATES: INDEPENDENTS

Third Party and Independent Voters Are 2024’s Big Wild Card

ISSUES ARTICLES:

Video on Immigration Issue

YOUTH VOTE

NPR: What Young Voters Want in 2024
Feb 2023: NPR Story about Gen Z Voting & Voter Education
Gen Z's political power: new data gives insight into America's youngest voters
Winter 2023: Post-Election Research Report on Gen Z Voting
A new report shares insight into how Generation Z envisions their futures and what they expect from public and private institutions.
NY Times Opinion: Young Voters Are Frustrated. They’re Staying Engaged ‘Out of Sheer Self-Defense’
CalMatters: What pundits and public narratives get wrong about low turnout of young voters
CalMatters: No, California’s young voters did not turn out more than seniors. But they did clinch elections
OPINION: How younger voters will impact elections: The more a generation changes, the more it stays the same
Tufts University: Youth Voting Increased Across the Country
Young Adult Turnout Nearly Doubled in the 2018 Midterm Elections. Can It Be Maintained in 2022?
California's Youth Vote - Infographics

GRAPH: AHS Students - Participation in Election Simulations, 2018-2022

PURPOSE QUESTIONS: Graph Analysis

YOUTH TURNOUT PER STATE 2022
SCROLL down to the map of the US - this interactive will show all states' percentages of the youth vote for the Nov. 2022 election.
Preregistration for Young Voters
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INFOGRAPHICS, CHARTS & OTHER VISUAL AIDS

Pew Research Center: Topics
Pew Research Center has surveys and studies on numerous topics. Search on your topic, and then click on links that interest you. You can also click on "Interactives" or "Fact Tank" at the top to get visuals and infographics on your subject.
Database: Issues & Controversies
Subscription database! You must log in first to view. Once on, search for your topic. Once at your topic, you will see "Infographics" as one of the choices at the top. Click on that.
Public Policy Institute of CA - 2022 Election
Good source for CA election and voting info. Also, good surveys & infographics for visual aids

STUDENT WEBSITES FROM PAST ELECTION CYCLES

Student Projects From Past Elections

The projects below can give you some idea of how finished Google Site websites look. While your current project asks different questions and will have different pages, many of these websites have great visuals and clever page ideas that may inspire you and your group.

Past Election Projects:

Candidates' Websites (Google Site) - (project from 2022-2023 school year)
Issues of the 2020 Election: Student-made Google Sites Websites (project from 2020-2021 school year)
Candidates' Websites (Google Site) - (project from 2019-2020 school year)

GOOGLE SITES - ELECTION STUDENT WEBSITES

I. ELECTION WEBSITE INSTRUCTIONS

Link to Mr. Honda's assignment

II. 2024 Primary Election Candidate Websites: (Google Site)

This is where your group will link your site when it is finished

III. Rubric for Project

Use the rubric to guide you in building your site

CA Senate Race

ARTICLES ABOUT THE 2024 CA SENATE RACE :

Poll shows Garvey and Porter tied for second place in California’s Senate race

Who’s leading? Schiff? Porter? Lee? Garvey? Who Cares?

CalMatters.org: Finally A Competitive Senate Race in CA

Los Angeles Times: Who will replace the late Sen. Feinstein in 2024 election? Meet the potential candidates (only looking at 3 top Dems and Republican Steve Garvey)

Washington Post: Former Baseball Star Steve Garvey Running for CA US Senate

SF Chronicle: CA Senate Race A Once-in-Generation for Decision for Voters

Primary Election: CA Senate Race Questions
These are the questions about Top Two Primaries and the CA Senate race that were worked on during library day.