# How I decided to vote for California Prop. 50 in November **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [September 30, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-decided-to-vote-for-california-prop-50-in-november/1023530 "2025-09-30T16:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 113
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-decided-to-vote-for-california-prop-50-in-november/1023530/113 "2025-10-09T03:43:13Z")
**Moderating:** > [@Procacious](#): > > It’s stuff like this that had people staying home instead of voting for Harris in 2024. If your only choices are both evil, it’s easy to rationalize not participating. Gavin Newsom is a sleezy politician even if I do respect some of the things he has tried to accomplish in the past. > [@Procacious](#): > > If people that were not up to the mental task of voting didn’t vote, we wouldn’t have this problem to begin with. The Democrats have been trying to get every moron out to vote for decades now, because they assume dumb people will vote Democrat, but, as you said, “How’s that working out for everyone?” @Procacious - the first piece I quoted, as well as the second are noticeably off topic and heading towards a hijack. Your opinion of the intelligence of voters is yours to make, but it seems out of place in this thread - more of a rant, especially when it comes to refighting the 2024 Election. Let’s keep the focus just on California Prop. 50 for the moment. This applies to all the posters in thread - we have several threads on voting (or choosing not to) for the lesser of evils, or third party votes. If you want to revisit those arguments, there are more appropriate threads to do so: > [@The People that anger me the most: The "Independents" who voted for neither](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-that-anger-me-the-most-the-independents-who-voted-for-neither/1016615): > > They didn’t vote for Trump. So, I’ll give them that. They didn’t vote for Kamala either, or maybe they didn’t vote for Hillary either, or for Biden? And their reasons? Some conservative on a college campus felt uncomfortable. Or some transgender person is competing in sports somewhere. Or DisneyWorld has DEI in hiring. Or Fauci said something once that wasn’t completely correct. And let’s not forget about our all-time favorite: Hillary’s private e-mail server!!! These people that just c… Being one of the most recent, and also being a P&E thread, not a Pit thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-decided-to-vote-for-california-prop-50-in-november/1023530)._