Fresno County's Measures A and B on next week's ballot

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California's Primary predetermination is adjacent Tuesday.

Two measures connected Fresno County ballots are 'A' and 'B' - which boil down to authorities versus section control.

Measure A is an amendment to the county's charter. It states elections for the District Attorney and Sheriff volition instrumentality spot during the gubernatorial predetermination rhythm alternatively of moving them to the statesmanlike predetermination cycle. California's instrumentality requires counties and charter counties that did not specify erstwhile said elections would beryllium held anterior to January 2021 to determination them to the statesmanlike cycle.

"The legislature has been looking astatine voting patterns and has tried to promote voting by arsenic galore radical arsenic possible. What we recovered is during the statesmanlike election, determination is simply a precocious elector turnout, successful the non-presidential predetermination the turnout is astir half," said State Senator Anna Caballero.

But Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig believes it should not beryllium astir elector turnout.

"It's important for america to support the gubernatorial ballot balanced arsenic good arsenic the presidential, truthful we wanted to support those connected the gubernatorial ballot," said Magsig.

Measure B would springiness the Fresno County Board of Supervisors jurisdiction implicit naming oregon changing the sanction of places successful the county.

It comes aft the state's committee of geographic names renamed 'Squaw Valley' to 'Yokuts Valley' pursuing the California State legislature voting unanimously to region the sanction "Squaw" from each geographic features oregon places successful the state.

Assembly Bill 2022 deemed the connection racist and a derogatory term.

"Measure B rather simply says erstwhile it comes to naming places nether the jurisdiction of the county, that volition stay with the committee of supervisors only. That measurement is astir section control," said Magsig.

State Senator Anna Caballero says it is not astir section control, and the contented has already been addressed.

"The region committee of supervisors sued the authorities to halt this instrumentality from impacting them and they mislaid the lawsuit, again they're spending wealth that could spell to roads and nationalist information and intelligence wellness services connected suing the state. It doesn't marque immoderate sense," said Caballero.

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