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ACA 6 passed the California State Assembly by a vote of 54-19 on September 5, 2019, and was approved by the California State Senate by a vote of 28-9 on June 24, 2020. [6] After being put on the ballot, ACA 6 was given the ballot designation of Proposition 17. Under California law, there is a distinction between probation [7] and parole. [8]
California Proposition 20 was a proposed initiated state statute on the ballot in the 2020 California elections. This initiative would have added more crimes to the list of non-violent felonies for which early parole is restricted, and would have required DNA collection for certain misdemeanors.
Proposition 57 was an initiated California ballot proposition, approved on the November 8, 2016 ballot. The Proposition allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons, changes policies on juvenile prosecution, [2] and authorizes sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education.
In close races, it can take weeks to determine who won as election officials process mail-in ballots. Editorial: California's election results require patience. That's a good thing.
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In California, voting rights are restored to felons automatically after release from prison and discharge from parole. Probationers may vote. [13] Prior to 1978, only persons who had a certified medical excuse, or who could demonstrate that they would be out of town on Election Day, were allowed to vote absentee. Today, any voter may vote absentee.
Early results, however, showed that support fell along party lines: Many of the counties that voted against the measure are rural and also supported the effort to recall Newsom in 2021.
In the rush to make sense of those results, several headlines have posited that California is backing away from criminal justice reform and returning to the tough-on-crime policies of the 1990s.