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President/Vice President of the United States

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Democratic
  8,063,473 votes 61.1%
• John McCain/Sarah Palin, Republican
  4,902,278 votes 37.1%
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales, Peace and Freedom
  105,375 votes 0.8%
• Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian
  65,654 votes 0.5%
• Alan Keyes/Wiley S. Drake, Sr., American Independent
  39,620 votes 0.3%
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente, Green
  37,432 votes 0.2%
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)

US Legislature

United States Representative; District 4

• Tom McClintock, Republican
  184,543 votes 50.3%
• Charlie Brown, Democratic
  182,967 votes 49.7%

State Senate

State Senator; District 1

• Dave Cox, Republican
  265,356 votes 62.3%
• Anselmo Chavez, Democratic
  160,845 votes 37.7%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 4

• Ted Gaines, Republican
  166,582 votes 100.0%

Governing Board Member; Black Oak Mine Unified School District; Trustee Area 1

• Greg Dales
  1881 votes 36.59%
• Michele Kringel
  1861 votes 36.20%
• Richard Otterstad
  825 votes 16.05%
• David Justice
  557 votes 10.83%

Governing Board Member; Black Oak Mine Unified School District; Trustee Area 2

• Steve M. De Pue
  3471 votes 68.14%
• Richard Palmiere, Jr.
  1603 votes 31.47%

Governing Board Member; Sierra Joint Community College District; Trustee Area 4

• Elaine Rowen
  7,193 votes 56.4%
• Dennis Michael Cota
  5,471 votes 42.9%
• (89 Total Write-In Votes 0.7%)

Governing Board Member; Sierra Joint Community College District; Trustee Area 7

• Aaron Klein
  6,501 votes 54.2%
• John Vodonick
  5,390 votes 45.0%
• (94 Total Write-In Votes 0.8%)

Special District

Director; Georgetown Divide Public Utility District; Seat 4

• Bonnie L. Neeley
  1587 votes 34.92%
• Michael Kenoyer
  1332 votes 29.31%
• Douglas Pickell
  1249 votes 27.48%
• Eric Biersteker
  364 votes 8.01%

Director; Georgetown Divide Public Utility District; Seat 5

• Norman A. Krizl
  2671 votes 59.85%
• Douglas R. Renzoni
  1780 votes 39.88%

Proposition 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train
Pass: 6,512,189 / 52.5% Yes votes ...... 5,887,181 / 47.5% No votes

To provide Californians a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices; to provide good-paying jobs and improve California's economy while reducing air pollution, global warming greenhouse gases, and our dependence on foreign oil, shall $9.95 billion in bonds be issued to establish a clean, efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with at least 90 percent of bond funds spent for specific projects, with federal and private matching funds required, all bond funds subject to an independent audit?

Proposition 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals
Pass: 8,009,556 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,622,352 / 36.6% No votes

Shall certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around?

Proposition 3 Children's Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program
Pass: 6,805,649 / 55.1% Yes votes ...... 5,536,987 / 44.9% No votes

Shall $980,000,000 in general obligation bonds be authorized for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of eligible children's hospitals?

Proposition 4 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy
Fail: 6,071,863 / 48.0% Yes votes ...... 6,570,777 / 52.0% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to prohibit abortion for an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian, or, in limited cases, substitute adult relative?

Proposition 5 Nonviolent Drug Offenses, Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation
Fail: 5,015,080 / 40.4% Yes votes ...... 7,407,454 / 59.6% No votes

Shall $460,000,000 be allocated annually to improve and expand treatment programs?

Proposition 6 Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws
Fail: 3,728,495 / 30.8% Yes votes ...... 8,365,052 / 69.2% No votes

Shall of minimum of $965,000,000 of state funding be required each year for police and local law enforcement?

Proposition 7 Renewable Energy Generation
Fail: 4,376,814 / 35.4% Yes votes ...... 7,984,617 / 64.6% No votes

Shall government-owned utilities be required to generate 20% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable to private electrical corporations? Shall all utilities be required to generate 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025?

Proposition 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
Pass: 6,838,107 / 52.3% Yes votes ...... 6,246,463 / 47.7% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry providing that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California?

Proposition 9 Criminal Justice System. Victims' Rights. Parole
Pass: 6,518,511 / 53.8% Yes votes ...... 5,602,596 / 46.2% No votes

Shall notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole be required? Shall victim safety be a consideration for bail or parole?

Proposition 10 Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds
Fail: 4,966,867 / 40.5% Yes votes ...... 7,303,418 / 59.5% No votes

Shall $5 billion in bonds paid from state's General Fund be authorized to help consumers and others purchase certain vehicles, and to help research in renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles?

Proposition 11 Redistricting
Pass: 5,957,057 / 50.8% Yes votes ...... 5,759,932 / 49.2% No votes

Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?

Proposition 12 Veteran's Bond Act of 2008
Pass: 7,618,136 / 63.5% Yes votes ...... 4,385,715 / 36.5% No votes

Shall a nine hundred million dollar ($900,000,000) bond be issued to provide farm and home aid for California veterans?

Measure Y Shall the current Meas. Y be amended and extended for ten years? -- El Dorado County (Amendment to the 2004 El Dorado County General Plan - Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 48333 / 71.47% Yes votes ...... 19293 / 28.53% No votes

Shall the voter-enacted Measure Y General Plan policies be extended ten years and amended to provide: (1) Traffic from major single-family residential subdivisions shall not result in, or worsen, Level of Service F (gridlock) traffic congestion; (2) No additional county roadways may operate at Level of Service F without voter approval or 4/5ths vote of County Supervisors; (3) Developer-paid traffic fees, combined with any other funding source, shall pay to build necessary road improvements?