Put local elections first on California ballots

They appear during election season in your mailbox or are handed to you by a polling-place worker — your secret ballot for everything from school board seats to president of the United States.
Somebody in your city clerk’s office, and in the Sacramento offices of the secretary of state, has to write and edit them, not that they always make for fascinating reading. It’s more like dull but important. And, yes, there regulations on the language that is used, often sent to official