Voter Guide

2022 February Election SF voter guide

Steven Buss, Jan 11, 2022, #Elections, #Pissed Off Voter Guide, #Politics, #San Francisco, #School Board, #Voter Guide, #Voting

San Francisco is having a special election on February 15 for the School Board Recall (aka Board of Education Recall), Assembly District 17, and San Francisco Assessor-Recorder.

If you’re a pissed off voter and want to vote for change, you have to vote for it. Don’t vote for the same people we’ve been electing for decades, vote against the incumbents and for newcomers and political outsiders.

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2021 ADEM Election step-by-step guide

Steven Buss, Dec 30, 2020, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting, #YIMBY

Voting in the ADEM election will let you amplify your vote power by 100x. ADEM sets the direction of the Democratic Party and controls who earns the Democratic Party endorsement for State Assembly, State Senate, US House, and US Senate.

Voters trust and vote with the Democratic Party endorsements. The endorsements can easily create a 12% vote margin (about 62,000 votes) in these high-stakes elections that determine state and national policy.

You must register for ADEMs by January 11, 2021, and some of the prerequisite steps can take several days, so DO THIS NOW!

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November 2020 Voter Guide

Steven Buss, Oct 5, 2020, #Election 2020, #Elections, #Politics, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Tech, #Tech Worker Voter Guide, #Voter Guide

I’m doing something a bit different this election… I teamed up with an incredible group of techies to launch the Tech Worker Voter Guide!

We did candidate outreach and performed deep research into every ballot prop. If you live in San Francisco and work in tech, then check out https://techworkers.vote!

We are pro-tech, pro-jobs, pro-immigrant, pro-growth, and pro-progress.

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Pissed off at the Pissed Off Voter Guide

Steven Buss, Feb 7, 2020, #Elections, #Pissed Off Voter Guide, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide

NEW: Looking for my latest San Francisco Voting Guide by Steven Buss? Check out the GrowSF Voter Guide, which I helped create!

If they are so pissed off with the state of the city, then why did they endorse nearly all of the incumbents running in the upcoming March 2020 election? I guess I’d be pissed off, too, if I kept voting for the same people misgoverning San Francisco year after year!

I’m running for the SF Democratic Party County Central Committee (DCCC) which means, among other things, that I get to fill out a bunch of candidate endorsement questionnaires sent by various local organizations. By far the worst one I saw was for the League of Pissed Off Voters. It’s 5 pages of yes/no questions and demands for loyalty to the NIMBY fauxgressive machine. You aren’t allowed to explain your answers. You aren’t allowed to provide evidence. You must toe the party line.

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November 2019 San Francisco Voting Guide

Steven Buss, Oct 22, 2019, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting, #YIMBY

I will use my San Francisco Voting Framework to give you recommendations for the November 2019 election. The numbers in (parenthesis) are the voting principles I’m applying to my endorsement.

If you think we need this kind of rigorous analysis in the Democratic Party, then please support me: Steven Buss for Democratic County Central Committee.

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2018 November General Election Voting Guide

Steven Buss, Oct 9, 2018, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #US Election 2018, #Voter Guide, #Voting

This is my longest-ever voter guide. Not only do I justify my positions on propositions using my voting framework, I explain those choices in depth. Every ballot prop position is justified by some of my 10 voting principles, eg if you see (1, !2) that means the prop satisfies voting principle 1 and undermines principle 2. Here’s the tl;dr, scroll down for detailed explanations.

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2018 June Election Voting Guide

Steven Buss, May 14, 2018, #Election 2018, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #Voter Guide, #Voting

I have a general voting strategy for props which works most of the time time:

Prefer to vote for new taxes, preferably without a set-aside
Vote for groups that don’t have a strong lobby (youth, disabled, homeless, low-income people, the environment)
Vote for social policy change in ways that agree with my values
Vote for things that price externalities
Vote against things which increase needless or unhelpful bureaucracy
Vote against things which infringe upon rights of the people
Vote against things which undermine good government
Generally vote against budget set-asides, which limit the ability of representatives to budget effectively

Don’t just vote NO on every ballot initiative. Here’s a justification for my YES and NO votes that fit within a general voting strategy. Feel free to share and/or print this out for election day.

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2016 November General Election Voting Guide

Steven Buss, May 13, 2018, #Elections, #Politics, #San Francisco, #US Election 2016, #Voter Guide, #Voting

I had previously only posted this on Facebook, but since I’m planning to do this for every election going forward I moved it here.

Don’t just vote NO on every ballot initiative. Here’s a justification for my YES votes that fit within a general voting strategy. Feel free to share and/or print this out for election day.

My voting strategy is:

(1) prefer to vote for new taxes, preferably without a set-aside,
(2) vote for groups that don’t have a strong lobby (youth, disabled, homeless, low-income people),
(3) vote for social policy change in ways that agree with my values,
(4) vote for things that price externalities.

And I try to vote no for everything that doesn’t meet those criteria and/or increases needless or unhelpful bureaucracy (5), or infringes upon rights (6).

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