A friend sent along the following message:
I just received by mail a ballot for voting on a special assessment for fire-prevention measures in the Oakland Hills area.... It calls for weighted voting and other things prescribed by proposition 218 (Cal. Const., art. XIIID). I see the First District upheld a constitutional ("one person, one vote") challenge to the weighted voting provision of Proposition 218 just last year. Fair enough (even if wrong, which seems possible). But here's my problem: We only received one ballot; it seems we get a single vote, weighted by proportionate value of our property. But my wife and I disagree on how to vote (she's against, I'm for). So how can we vote? It seems to me that we can't . . . and thus it seems to me that there must be something constitutionally wrong with this (not the weighting part, but the failure to divide the vote per
property into individual owners).
Any thoughts?
Rick