How Is Altadena Voting Today?

Altadena voters headed to the polls this morning to cast their ballots for new federal and state representatives, Measure A, a few new tax measures and a proposition on legislative term limits.

A few people were trickling in to to cast their ballot this morning, while across the street saw a steady stream of voters.

Patch caught up with a few Altadena residents to see what brought them out to the polls and how they voted.

Resident Adrien Beard said it was the tax measures that brought him out to the polls: , the $1.00 tax on cigarettes that would generate funding for cancer and smoking cessation research, Measure H, which would keep the hotel tax at 12-percent for unincorporated L.A. County, and Measure L, which would continue a 10-percent tax on landfill operators. Beard said he voted yes on all of them.

Altadena resident Victoria, who declined to give her last name, said that the most important issue for her was Prop 29. “[Smoking] is not good,” she said, adding that she hoped the extra expense would curb people from lighting up.

Victoria also said it was important to her to vote in the presidential primary. “I voted for Romney,” she said.

John, an Altadena resident who asked that his last name be withheld, said that there wasn’t one issue that brought him out to the polls. “All of them are important,” he said. John didn’t care to share how he voted today, instead saying, “that’s my privilege.”

The Altadena residents we talked to didn’t have much to say about Measure A. However, over in Sierra Madre, residents were a bit more vocal about dividing the Pasadena Unified School District in sub-districts that would each be able to elect one representative to the Board of Education.

Sierra Madre voter Tennyson Warren was in favor of Measure A, saying that there would be a better balance on the Board of Education if there were representatives for each particular area in the PUSD. “The idea that you can have seven people from one area [on the Board of Education], that’s not really right,” he said. 

Sierra Madre’s John Boyden was also in favor of Measure A, saying that he believes it would be better to give every sub-district a designated representative.

There have been a number of opinion pieces published on Altadena Patch about Measure A. Check them out here:

How did you vote today? Tell us in the comments.