I ordered an absentee ballot this year, and the only questions on it were President, Senator, and Representative. I was kind of confused by this but just assumed there were no propositions. Apparently that's not true.
Any idea why I might have gotten that, and whether there's any way to vote on propositions given that I've already sent in my absentee ballot?
My best guess is that for some reason they think you're still in Ireland or Haiti. Expatriate US citizens can vote in federal elections based on their last place of residence in the US, but not necessarily in state or local elections.
Since you've already sent in your ballot, you're probably out of luck. You're best bet would probably be to contact your county's registrar of voters; they'd know for sure if there's a way to fix it for this election, and you'd want to contact them anyway in order to get things cleared up for next election.
Just to comment on your analysis of genetically modified foodstuffs: I think you give too little credit to the potential for harm due to technique #5 that you have listed. Not that labeling will really make a big difference, but this type of genetic modification is quite a bit different from the others that we have practiced for decades, centuries, or millenia. Other techniques take genetic traits that are already present in small percentage of a population of plants and selectively breed them to become the whole population, or change regulatory genes to increase or decrease production of certain substances that the plant already produces. Actual "new" genes coding for entirely new substances are pretty darn rare to happen due to methods 1-4 (though forced hybridization can introduce some). However, method #5 can introduce pretty much any chemical we want into pretty much any plant we want. This is a bad idea. We can make plants that produce their own insecticides to increase productivity without spraying. Then, even if the
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Any idea why I might have gotten that, and whether there's any way to vote on propositions given that I've already sent in my absentee ballot?
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http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/mov/who-special-absentee.htm
Since you've already sent in your ballot, you're probably out of luck. You're best bet would probably be to contact your county's registrar of voters; they'd know for sure if there's a way to fix it for this election, and you'd want to contact them anyway in order to get things cleared up for next election.
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