Frequently Asked Questions

If you received a political email regarding ethnic studies, it likely was NOT an accident. Voter data purchased legally from your county's elections office has been used for cold outreach regarding Initiative #25-0003, a ballot measure to expand and shield ethnic studies. 

Cold outreach is common and legal for political campaigns in the U.S.

As of September 2025, Golden Values for Ethnic Studies, the proponent committee, is NOT paying anyone to gather signatures. 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.

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

This petition must be printed, wet-signed, and mailed.

California Elections Code § 9020-9022 prohibits digital signatures and typed info.

Here's an example scenario of how to sign:

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

For John to sign, he prints the initiative petition from our page, writes his info in the box and the circulator statement sections on page 2, and mails 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. 

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 calculation.

 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.

You can also contact your county's elections office for questions regarding this petition.

As of September 2025, this measure and its financing are in NO way, shape, or form linked to AB 715, AB 1468, or any other 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.