Why is it important for California voters to be able to make changes to the laws of their state?
444284
beacuse cali has  mostly immigrants and if they r against or for having more immigrants or border control then they could change the future...
169561
Nothing. Call your State Legislature and ask him/her to introduce the bill. Ask others to do the same.\nNow if your thinking "grass roots referendum" to get the issue on the State vote, that's different.\nYour State may be different then mine.
802944
Because elections in the U.S. are a STATE issue, not a federal one. There are very few laws at the federal level dealing with elections. The government leaves most of it up to the states to decide how to do it.
310861
It takes a lot to change the constitution. You might as well not waste your time on something as silly as changing it so an unpoopular governor can lose the Presidential election for your party. Because, it might make it harder to get a law change you do want.
30447
Couple of answers here may be right for the states those folks live in, and you didn't say what state you're in, so I'll just add my two cents and be done.\n\nIn California, I'm sworn to do my job by the city I work for, but my authority comes from the state.
961778
Good question! I think it's a PR move. Shows the voters that they care about the issues they care about. It's more action.
1098661
Ted Kennedy probably runs the New England States more so than California. Schwarzenegger? Run California? Like elected officials would let that happen. The bureaucracy is so overwhelmingly on a power trip that nobody has power except for corporations and special interest lobbyists.
803436
Good question!  Here's the procedure in California.  I don't imagine it would be all that different from state to state.
876766
by participating in the government\nvoting to make changes
1160100
This is something that is possible but requires great effort to make it happen.  There are good reasons for changing our states' boundaries.  Western and eastern Washngton have very different interests and economies, as do northern and southern California.  I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California.  I saw over time the millions in southern California having an inordinate influence on the lives and affairs of the rest of California.  All are good people but their interests can be so dramatically different and continuously at odds, leading to unending stalemates and unresolved problems.
104433
Yeah--Ahhhnold has done such a great job with California that we should let him run the whole place, right?\n\nI think it's worth discussing, but you're talking about a constitutional change.  That requires not just both houses of Congress going along, but 37 state legislatures signing off on it too.  I don't think that will EVER happen.
772755
They make all the state laws which is the majority of laws you live by and they make the budgets that end up affecting your police, fire, schools, taxes, and all public services.  Probably more important to your life than the people in Washington.
791747
Because they have a choice on what is important to them.  This starts a life long trend of voting.  Let's them know that they can make a difference and contribute to society.  Gives them more power on issues that are important to them.
464268
From a California Attorney.
939335
In order to be a voting block they would have to be registered voters and if illegal then there is not much chance of that happening for one thing they do not have the documentation  necessary so that is nothing to fret over, how to fix this mess is very simple and should be implimented immediately. you have to enforce laws already on the books for one against employers of illegals, second you need to have documentation that you must present when you leave and enter the country example passports, if you do not have one then you do not travel out of or into the country, third if you are an illegal convicted of a crime then you pull your time in an american prison and upon release deported back to your home country, fourth you put a 20 % tax on any money sent out of the country to another country this helps in two ways, the first it makes it harder for you to bring over other illegals and secondly it protects the United States from possible terrorist due to funding of terrorist from within we have the laws on the books now for that so enforce it. We start stopping all health care to illegals that is not morally wrong when you do not even provide that for your legal citizens, you enforce the laws as far as landlords are concerned that stops there being 20 people in a single family dwelling,  and any town that does not enforce laws concerning immigration that is already on the books such as that one in California that says it would not they you take away all federal funding to that town so you see there are a lot of ways to fix the problems if we but work on it and of course there is the best way to fix it and that is to make it plain to your senator and congressman that you want the problem fixed and if it can not be fixed then they do not become re-elected to a cush job.
338609
Only if they reside in CA
529111
Each state has different laws, as do the schools, but in CA and NY you have to live for a year in the state for non-school purposes, and show that you have permanently relocated (changing the drivers license, etc.). \n\nI tried to go through this process myself. Good luck.