Election Center

Welcome to your Pro-Family Election Center

This is where you can get reliable facts, perspective, and advice on how to vote for your conservative and constitutional values in California. SaveCalifornia.com has been offering pro-family voting help since 2000.

Statewide Special Election November 4, 2025

On this page:

• Election dates and deadlines
• How to vote securely
• Ballot tracking
• Why to vote NO on Prop. 50
• Why vote?
• How to be a poll watcher
• How to help others vote right
• Party platforms

SaveCalifornia.com provides the following solely for educational purposes. Since 2000, our pro-family, pro-child organization has taken positions on ballot measures, yet our nonprofit status does not permit us to support or oppose candidates for public office.

• By October 6: Your county elections office will begin mailing ballots.
• October 7: Ballot drop-off locations open (see your in-person voting options at your county registrar of voters website).
• October 20: Deadline to register to vote this election (either on paper, available at post offices, or online). To check your voter registration status, click here.
• October 25: Vote centers open for early in-person voting in all Voter’s Choice Act counties.
• November 4: Last day to vote in person or drop off your vote-by-mail ballots (if mailed, must be postmarked no later than today)
  
  

SaveCalifornia.com recommends voting securely, as early as you can.

Because of the rise of evil, we advise you to avoid mailing in your ballot or using a drop box location. Because your ballot is more secure when you vote in-person or feed your completed, unsealed ballot into a receiving and counting machine at an official vote center in your county.

If you can't do either, the next best is dropping off your sealed ballot in the locked "slot" or "box" or "mailbox" that is inside your county registrar of voters' office.

Whether or not your county is participating in the "Voter's Choice Act," there should be a least 1 polling place in your county where the California Secretary of State says you may "vote in person up to 10 days prior to Election Day." If you don't see this in-person option in your county voter guide, call your own county registrar of voters to tell them you want to use a paper ballot to vote and confirm that's available at a physical vote center.

Concerned about your NO vote showing through a hole on your ballot envelope?

...the mail-in ballots have a serious flaw: for those who vote NO, when the ballot is reinserted back in the mail-in envelope as instructed, the voter’s “NO” fill-in bubble shows through a hole in the signature block. California Globe 10/10/25

1. Let this motivate you to vote in person at an official vote center in your county, which is more secure than mailing your ballot or placing it in a drop box.

2. If you're still going to mail in your ballot, the Sacramento County elections office made this video to help your vote on Prop. 50 not show through the holes.

Either before or after you vote, you may track your ballot here. Tracking your ballot is the only practical way to know whether your ballot has been counted. Because if your ballot is lost or not received, you should ask to vote using a provisional ballot.
 

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

For two census cycles now (2010 and 2020), the 14-member California Citizens Redistricting Commission (5 Democrats, 5 Republicans, and 4 unaffiliated voters) has drawn much fairer districts than the California Legislature previously drew. The Commission is under strict orders in the California Constitution, as follows:

• “The geographic integrity of any city, county, city and county, local neighborhood, or local community of interest shall be respected in a manner that minimizes their division”
• “Communities of interest shall not include relationships with political parties, incumbents, or political candidates”
• “Districts shall not be drawn for the purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party"

For years now, California political parties have accepted, and even praised, the nonpartisan Citizen Redistricting Commission.

As the Commission said in its August 28, 2025 statement, "The fact that the Commission’s maps have been in place for two election cycles with no legal challenges attests to the care and consideration that the commissioners gave to the input from the people of California and to the nonpartisan rules that guided the process. The Commission is proud of the work that it has done to serve the people of California, and we stand behind our maps as a fair representation of the wishes of the people of California."

Yet Prop. 50 would let the California Legislature draw U.S. congressional district maps on race-based, purely partisan criteria:

Gavin Newsom and other Democrat Party politicians admit their Prop. 50 maps are not drawn for geographic integrity, but to eliminate up to 5 current Republican seats. Why? To unjustly oppose what the Texas legislature and governor rightly did, which was to restore geographic integrity of congressional districts by eliminating race-based districts.

The leaked Prop. 50 maps are:

• Drawn by Democrat Party staffers, not the independent redistricting commission 
• In bondage to racial or political party criteria (the exact opposite of Texas’ fair districts) 
• Would impose squiggly-drawn district lines that are not homogeneous in nature, but unfairly drawn for the purpose of dividing up Republican areas, thus eliminating Republican seats

Unfair government is unjust government: 

As a public example of fairness, most court buildings display relief art of Lady Justice, blindfolded so she is incapable of favoritism, and holding scales so she can, without bias, fairly weigh evidence. Yet Prop. 50 is the polar opposite of Lady Justice's virtues. The California State Legislature proposes to eliminate the fair and just standards of the Citizens Redistricting Commission and replace those standards with new and unfair criteria for drawing district boundaries that are racist and purely partisan. The result is injustice -- since unfair government, by definition, is unjust government. Always vote against political corruption!

The Yes on 50 ads are lying to you:

Putting aside the ad hominem attacks upon President Trump and Charles Munger, Jr., the Yes on 50 ads falsely and deceptively claim the proposition is needed to “level the playing field”, counter “an unprecedented power grab to steal congressional seats,” “protect democracy,” “protects independent redistricting,” and “gives the power to the people.”

Yet Prop. 50 to draw categorically unfair U.S. congressional district maps is an unprecedented power grab of the California State Legislature to eliminate 5 of 9 Republican congressional seats. Prop. 50 is decidedly for the politicians, not for the People of California; and does not preserve or protect, but eliminates, the current congressional maps of the Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Help inform others why to vote NO on Prop. 50: Email a link to this page to your family, friends, and your entire email list.

"Official Voter Information Guide" (contains biased analyses of the State Attorney General and the state's Legislative Analyst's Office)
"Corrected" Prop. 50 Title and Summary (produced by concerned California citizens)

To vote or not to vote, that is the question.

With the unfair Prop. 50 on California’s special election ballot, here are three good reasons to vote:

1. When enough people vote right, you can win. Remember the Trump for President campaign slogan, encouraging conservatives to make their votes “too big to rig”?

2. This will be a low-voter-turnout election, so your vote makes a greater mathematical difference. Seize this opportunity!

3. It’s loving to vote. Remember, Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world and God in the flesh, commanded “love your neighbor as yourself.” So, when bad government is hurting others, it’s loving to vote for good against evil.

So, please vote this October 2025, and encourage your conservative friends and family members to vote. Let love empower you!

Do more than vote! Become a trained election office watcher.

Election Integrity Project California is leading this fight for excellent poll watching (you may also contact your county's Republican Party office to ask if they're coordinating teams to do poll watching in which you can participate).

From EIPCa's Sept. 12, 2025 newsletter:

...it is essential that EIPCa-trained Observers be integral to every step of the election process. EIPCa Observers are like NO OTHERS in the country.

Please understand, EIPCa Observers do not just watch and record. Following our legitimate lawful authority, we TAKE ACTION, not just later in court but, more importantly at the time of observing a procedure that is not consistent with law or does not protect the integrity of the election process.

EIPCa works hard to make an immediate difference in protecting the integrity of the election process as soon as it is clear any procedure being observed is not compliant with California election laws and/or county processing procedures.

The EIPCa Observer Program focuses on training our volunteers to take effective actions when needed and complete and mail after-action Incident Reports to our Corporate office.

Whether you have observed with EIPCa before, or are brand new, we urge you to allow your “something” to be participating in the
upcoming election as a trained EIPCa Observer.

Volunteer Observers give what they can, when they can. The choice of when, where and how long is always up to you. Training is required, even for experienced Observers.

Training opportunities will be:

• In October. 
• Virtual (live computer-based)—on-camera participation required.
• Approximately 2 hours.
• Narrowly focused on key areas of needed oversight.
• “Meaty”—no bells and whistles. Just the facts.

If you are a person of action, a doer and not just a lookie-loo, and you want to make a difference, volunteer and receive the necessary paperwork by sending an email immediately to: (click here to see email address at the end of Page 2)

Here's some easy ways you can help others vote, and vote right:

1. You can "multiply votes" via web, email, social media, and leafletting. 

Imagine helping hundreds of people vote for what's right in God's sight. You can help other Californians vote right by explaining why to vote NO on Prop. 50 via a web page, blog, email, and social media. You can also print information on a full or half sheet of paper (both sides) to place on automobile windshields in church parking lots. Want help doing this? If you call SaveCalifornia.com at 916-265-5650, leave a message with a good time to call you back, and we'll call you to answer your questions and equip you.

2. Advance election integrity by collecting ballots at your church building

Local churches can and should collect completed ballots from people in their congregations. This is a great way to get more good votes in. If you're part of a local church, it might be your best "get out the vote" effort!

Talk to your pastor about the need to multiply good votes and keep ballots secure. Ask him to announce that the church will collect and deliver people's ballots. Then on that day (best is the last two Sundays, Oct. 26 and Nov. 2), have a secure box at a table in the foyer (with a good identifying sign) that you guard and have available before and after the church meeting. 

When you talk with your pastor, also ask to have a voter registration table and announce this opportunity up front. Oct. 20 is the voter registration deadline, so your last chance for Voter Registration Sunday is Oct. 19.

Your (or the pastor's) announcement will encourage congregants that there's a secure place to deposit their ballots (just make sure you don't mix ballots from different counties, because an elections office can only receive ballots from voters in its own county). "Ballot collecting" is completely legal. Learn more 

Democrats & Republicans In Their Own Words

Every political party has an official Party Platform, which is a written document that is the most reliable indicator of how that party's candidates will vote as an "elected representative." The party platforms will tell you what to expect, but not as much as a candidate's voting records or specific public promises. 

» Comparison of 2020 platfoms of the Democratic and Republican parties
Human Life, Religious Liberty, Healthcare, Sex Education/LBGTQ/Title IX, School Choice, Courts, Law & Order, Immigration & Border Security

» "In Their Own Words": Republican and Democratic Platforms (2012)
Life, Marriage, Health Care & Conscience, Second Amendment (Firearms), Education, The Economy, The United Nations, Right to Work & Unions, Energy & Climate Change

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