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This is a civic special from the San Francisco Public Press of a live discussion about election November 2020 26, recorded at the Internet Archives in San Francisco.

Good evening and welcome.

I'm Angela Brown, the chair of the Education Committee for the League of Women Voters.

Tonight's program is designed to give you valuable insights as you prepare to cast your ballot for the November 3rd election.

We want to thank the Internet Archives for hosting us in this wonderful venue and for providing technical support.

We also thank our co-sponsors and community partners, the San Francisco Public Press, for their continued collaboration on this work.

We respectfully acknowledge that we are gathering on unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone people, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

It is now my pleasure to introduce Leila Lahood and Joe Rivabarras.

This is a civic special on the San Francisco ballot measures and the statewide propositions.

The following are brief audio stories explaining the measures by our reporters at the San Francisco Public Press.

Proposition A is a grab bag of 110 changes to the city charter, San Francisco's constitution.

Lyla Shmadal Permana explains.

Thank you.

San Francisco Public Press mentioned your AI water down bill, which is also known as SB53.

When they recognized, they actually categorized that bill as traded away safety and liability provision.

And at that time, they asked you for the records about who amended that bill that resulted in the watered down bill for that SB 53.

And finally, District 10, that includes Bayview Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, and Visitation Valley.

So to help the city's voters, KLW partnered with the San Francisco Public Press and hosted a live ballot breakdown of the upcoming election at San Francisco's main public library.

Our very own executive producer Ben Trefny was there to talk about the district supervisor races and how their results may shape the scope and scale of influence wielded by the mayor, Daniel Lurie.

Before we begin listening, one acronym you're going to hear a lot is DCCC.

So you may be wondering...

What is this mysterious body? Who is on it? And how do they wield so much power?

Lila LaHood, executive director of the San Francisco Public Press, explains.

So it's the Democratic County Central Committee.

Special thanks to Valia, Marina, and Kenny who are here helping us tonight.

As Valya said, I'm Laila Lahood, Executive Director of the San Francisco Public Press, and I'm joined by Juliet Williams, Politics Editor at CalMatters, and Ben Trefny, Executive Producer at KALW Public Media.

So I'm going to give a little bit of preamble.

We're going to take turns highlighting different parts of the ballot.