The Los Angeles Times offers this very interesting report, which begins: “LIVERMORE, Calif. — A housing developer here in the Bay Area’s bastion of slow growth is on track to spend nearly $68 per registered voter to pass a ballot measure that would expand the city’s boundaries and add 2,450 new homes along one of Northern California’s most congested highways. By the time election day dawns Nov. 8, Pardee Homes is expected to have spent more than $3 million to convince just 43,598 registered voters that the company should be allowed to develop 1,400 acres of golden grassland surrounded by rolling hills off busy Interstate 580.”