California voters are wading through a dizzying mix of ballot measures

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California is known for its love of direct democracy, and voters in the nation’s most populous state are once again wading through a mix of ballot proposals that could confuse even the most sophisticated of voters, New York Times reports.

Among the easily understood ballot questions on the ballot in California are tougher sentencing for drug and theft crimes, raising the state’s minimum wage and removing language against same-sex marriage from the state constitution.

But voters are also being asked whether to place restrictions on a health care provider that generates revenues from a federal prescription drug program, as well as whether to make permanent a budget mechanism that even state lawmakers have had trouble understanding over the years.

Voters will decide on 10 ballot measures in all, and each measure requires a simple majority to pass.

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