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Voter Approval for Local Government Taxes. Limitations on Fees, Assessments, and Charges. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

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Vetted · Oct 3, 2026

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c31624038303893a823d3f0659b3ed1b3b7b4b8a88528f388156e0acf3f18840

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Technical details
Service key id:
service:a3f979541aee7826
Owner key id:
SHA256:h82SrxLU1wYr+jpy4Vl9/9iQlAO+HQX1umVBdhy/Ss0
Owner keys file in the public log:
integrity/keys/owner.allowed_signers

Log entry

Entry 1, published Oct 3, 2026. Each entry includes the fingerprint of the one before it, so no earlier entry can change unnoticed.

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Merkle proof

These hashes lead from this record's fingerprint to the entry's root: d12f8e2dfa106ff2bd5e2cef627574928ca528a328b6e00558c6b3e6b793bc70

  1. 829f0dc9343060c10a2074c8a63d3b27e01752b75658c9eaae52445818e24b32
  2. 4fc8fe17edab0da9cc65dd848d3b45b8d85c85d897ae588437cb4832b8c36933
  3. 51704f2357e6fd005526cbb44f4071b708f6e36f76b7d07b6b104819be218652

Outside witnesses

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Versions

  1. Entry 1 · Oct 3, 2026 · current
    c31624038303893a823d3f0659b3ed1b3b7b4b8a88528f388156e0acf3f18840

Judgments behind this record

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    Call: Related, with no direction checked

    The official summary says Proposition 218 "Requires majority of voters approve increases in general taxes and reiterates that two-thirds must approve special tax."

    Made by a sourcer · checked by an independent checker · approved with the owner's key

    Technical details
    Recorded call:
    believe.tax-threshold:none
    Author id:
    sourcer-questions-fix
    Checker id:
    checker-judgments-archive-ca
    Owner key id:
    SHA256:h82SrxLU1wYr+jpy4Vl9/9iQlAO+HQX1umVBdhy/Ss0

    Vetted · Oct 3, 2026

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