How Prop 34 seems to single out an LA-based healthcare provider

Many homeless people may also not know that they can register to vote even if they have no permanent address. Californians without a fixed address can register to vote using the address of a shelter, the park's cross street or even the sidewalk where they are staying overnight.

Sacramento County is trying to close this gap by conducting voter registration drives at local homeless shelters and affordable housing developments. In addition to registering voters (a mid-October event registered 14 new registrants), county staff are handing out fliers with information about where to vote and telling people how to access the county's online voter information guide, according to county spokespersons Ken Casparis told CalMatters.

The confusing case of Prop 34

Of all the measures on the ballot in California this election, perhaps none is more confusing than Proposition 34. It bills itself as health care reform, but it is sponsored by a lobbying group representing the state's homeowners.

If voters approve Prop 34, certain health care providers will have to spend 98 percent of their revenue on patient care — or lose their licenses. However, the measure's criteria appear to apply to only one provider: the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has used a portion of its profits to fund statewide rent control initiatives – including in this year's vote.

Prop 34 is funded by the same landlord group that has spent millions fighting these rent control measures. And their support would effectively prevent the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from ever supporting another foundation again.