Here are election results. Please be aware some races may be too close to call at this point (see below),
Propositions on the Ballot:
Statewide:
Prop 1: California Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment- Passed (Pasadena Chamber Board too no position)
Prop 1 guarantees both the right to contraception and the right to an abortion.
Prop 26: California Legalize Sports Betting on American Indian Lands Initiative - Didn't Pass (Pasadena Chamber Board Supported)
Prop 26 allows age 21+ to gamble on sports in-person at tribal casinos, horse race tracks
Prop 27: Legalize Sports Betting and Revenue for Homelessness Prevention Fund Initiative - Didn't Pass (Pasadena Chamber Board Opposed)
Prop 27 allows online sports gambling for age 21+, with funds to address homelessness.
Prop 28: Art and Music K-12 Education Funding Initiative – Passed (Pasadena Chamber Board Supported)
Prop 28 requires California to spend on music and arts education in public schools
Prop 29: Dialysis Clinic Requirements Initiative - Didn't Pass (Pasadena Chamber Board Opposed)
Prop 29 regulates dialysis clinics, including mandated staffing and patient protections.
Prop 30: Tax on Income Above $2 Million for Zero-Emissions Vehicles and Wildfire Prevention Initiative - Didn't Pass (Pasadena Chamber Board Opposed)
Prop 30 raises income taxes on those making $2+ million a year to create a clean air fund.
Prop 31: California Flavored Tobacco Products Ban Referendum – Passed (Pasadena Chamber Board Supported)
Prop 31 would reaffirm the ban of the sale of flavored tobacco, which hasn't yet gone into effect.
Local Propositions:
Pasadena Measure H – Impose Rent Control in Pasadena – Passed in early returns but too close to call definitively (Pasadena Board Opposed)
Pasadena Measure L – Library tax to pay for services – Passed (Pasadena Chamber Board Supported)
Pasadena City College Measure PCC – Bond measure to pay for facility improvements and repairs – Passed (Pasadena Chamber Board took no position)
LA County Measure A - Los Angeles County Removal of Sheriff for Cause - Passed (Chamber Board took no position)
LA County Measure C - Los Angeles County Cannabis Tax - Passed. (Chamber Board took no position) - Allows imposition of taxes on cannabis operations in unincorporated areas of LA County
You can find results of all LA County elections here: https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2022&election=4300
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From the LA Times: Voters, be patient. Results take time By Julia Wick and Connor Sheets
An adage known as the election administrator’s prayer goes something like this: “Dear Lord, let this election not be close.”
When results are overwhelmingly clear, there are far fewer doubts about the integrity of the election process or frustrations with the procedures.
But in Tuesday’s contests, the results are not always overwhelmingly clear. In fact, it could take weeks to determine a winner in some races.
California’s shift to mail-in balloting means that voting begins weeks before election day and tabulation continues for weeks after, meaning results can remain murky in all but the most lopsided races immediately following an election.
Vote-by-mail ballots take longer to process, particularly when a massive number of them arrive all at once on election day, officials and experts said Wednesday. That makes the entire tabulation process lengthier, with less immediate certainty about how many ballots remain or whether the later tranches will look substantially different.
After election week, county election officials generally release new updates only twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, though Logan said his office hadn’t ruled out the possibility of an additional update between those days, depending on the volume of ballots tallied.
In its final election-night release, just after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the registrar- recorder’s office said it had counted 1,318,093 ballots — a total that includes all in-person voting and mail ballots received before election day, but not any of the mail ballots received on election day. Later Wednesday, the office estimated that 985,000 vote-by-mail ballots, 21,000 conditional voter registration ballots and several hundred provisional ballots were left to tabulate.
The number of uncounted ballots will continue to grow as more ballots arrive by mail. California law allows ballots postmarked by election day to be accepted for seven days.
Sealed containers of vote-by-mail ballots arrive at a county processing facility in the City of Industry , where they are verified and processed before being resealed and trucked to a facility in Downey for tabulation.
Election experts describe California’s relatively slow vote counts as indicative of a working democratic process, in which every vote is counted and any possible fraud is being rooted out.
Shifts of workers at the county vote-by-mail facility in Industry are verifying and processing ballots from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, registrar-recorder spokesperson Mike Sanchez said.
But norms about the timing of election results have been in flux for years. The shift stems from more than just the lengthier process for counting vote-by-mail ballots, said Jon Krosnick, a social psychologist and professor of psychology, political science and communication at Stanford University.
For decades, reliably accurate pre-election and exit polling helped shape election-night calls, giving news organizations and researchers a quicker picture of who would ultimately prevail as results were tabulated, Krosnick said.