Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, this is a legitimate signature campaign to place a measure on the ballot. If you received a political email regarding ethnic studies, it likely was NOT an accident. Voter data has been used for outreach, as is common and legal for political campaigns.

Initiative 25-0003 has been filed with the Office of the Attorney General of California and has a related state committee, Golden Values for Ethnic Studies (FPPC ID #1479887). Naturally, lawful conduct must take place as signatures are being collected.

As of June 2025, Golden Values for Ethnic Studies is NOT paying anyone to gather signatures for Initiative 25-0003. If that changes, it will be indicated on the Top Funders page of the signing petition as required by the Elections Code. 

If any supporting organizations independently choose to provide compensation to their own volunteers for tasks related or unrelated, that is solely their decision. Those efforts are not overseen by Golden Values for Ethnic Studies.

All inquiries regarding transparency can be answered quickly via the contact page.

Yes. If you need a visual example, reference this image.

Also, here's an example scenario:

John, 18, is a registered voter in California and wants to sign our initiative. 

For John to sign, he would need to print the initiative petition from our page, provide his handwritten signature in the voter signing and circulator statement sections of the petition, and mail his signed petition to the initiative mailbox. 

John's signature would be sent to his county's election office alongside other signatures received and he should use his driver's license signature when signing.

If he can't find his license or doesn't have one, he would use his most common signature or contact his county's election office for what signature to use. Electronic, typed, and emailed names, signatures, and info are NOT acceptable under California law.

When using Options 2 or 3 to gather multiple signatures, all the signatures MUST be from registered voters in the same county. For example, suppose Ashley collects signatures from people who are registered to vote in Los Angeles and San Diego on the same petition. In this case, only the voters whose signatures were submitted to their respective county's elections office will count, and the others will be disqualified since they weren't sent to their county's elections office by the campaign.

To the campaign's knowledge, CA law prevents this campaign from getting petitions back from the elections office once it's submitted for caluclation. If Ashley wants to avoid voters' signatures being disqualified, she should get signatures from voters who are registered in the same county and not a county mix, or she should have voters sign separate petitions.

The answer is: Unfortunately, no. 

Even though it would be convenient to mail to your county's elections office, per California Elections Code 9030, only proponents and individuals authorized by the proponent (such as volunteers) can submit signatures to each county's elections office. 

Furthermore, proponents are only permitted to send signed petitions at one time per county's election office during the signature-collecting period, not on a rolling basis.

You'd have to mail your signed petition to the campaign's UPS mailbox. located at:

420 N McKinley St., Unit 111-307, Corona, CA, 92879.

You are able, however, to contact the campaign through our contact page or your county's elections office to withdraw your own signature. Compliance is required, per the CA Elections Code, and each signed petition also states this.

This ballot measure and its financing are in NO way, shape, or form linked to AB 715, AB 1468, or any other controversial bills regarding ethnic studies that elected members of the California State Legislature are considering.

As specified within its legally filed text and in a website explainer, Initiative 25-0003 restricts legislators and agencies from adjusting ethnic studies curricula in the California State University.