PoliticsExpires Nov 3, 2026
Creator

California voter ID referendum passes?

Probability

39¢

1h

+0.0pp

24h

+1.0pp

24h Vol

$0.00

Liquidity

$6.5K

Research loop

Inspect the market

Read the move, holders, recent trades, source, and resolution risk before saving anything.

Canonical status

confidence: high

Source status (Polymarket)

active

Derived status (Orrery)

LIVE

Reason

Active market, expiry beyond the near-expiry window.

Resolution & Risk

MEDIUM risk
End date
Nov 3, 2026
UMA status
n/a
Resolution source

Not stated explicitly in the metadata. Read the full market rules below before treating any move as a resolved fact.

Market type
Binary
  • No primary resolution source listed — read the full market rules before acting.
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Probability (last 7 days)

+1.0pp 7d
1007550250
39¢
May 11, 2026, 12:00 UTCMay 18, 2026, 11:32 UTC
updated 11:32:50 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·snap:snap_2026-05-18T11-32Z

Why did it move?

Structured · 3 factors
  • 01
    Price move

    Up 1pp over 24h

    Now 39¢; flat in the last hour.

  • 02
    Active signal

    Resolution-risk observation firing

    Open resolution ambiguity — verify the source.

  • 03
    Liquidity

    Thin liquidity

    Only $6.5k of visible book — small orders can move the line. Treat the probability as a soft estimate.

What to track next

  • Verify the resolution source on this page — exchange feed, official release, news consensus — before treating any move as new information.

Verification actions only — never trade recommendations.

Each factor is grounded in a single named metric you can verify on this page — probability, volume, liquidity, signal, resolution state. No predictions, no prose hallucinations.

Timeline

critical · price · trade flow

Critical

  • Nov 3, 00:00 UTCScheduled resolution

    Market resolves in 4044.5h

    LOW
  • 11:32Signal

    Resolution risk

    Open resolution ambiguity — verify the source.

    LOW

Price movement

+1.0pp over the last 24h, now 39¢.

Biggest hourly move: +4.5pp at May 15, 18:00 UTC (to 42¢).

Show 3 hourly moves
  • 17:00 · -3.5pp → 39¢
  • May 16, 00:00 UTC · +4.0pp → 42¢
  • May 15, 18:00 UTC · +4.5pp → 42¢
updated 11:32:50 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·Polymarket Data

Active signals

Recent Trades

No recent trades visible from the Data API for this market. That usually means liquidity is thin or this market is between event windows.

updated 11:32:50 UTC·src:Polymarket Data

Market Description

The California voter ID initiative is a proposed statewide ballot measure for the California general election currently scheduled for November 3, 2026, which would require voters to present government-issued identification in California elections. This market will resolve to “Yes” if the voter identification initiative proposed by Reform California or any other statewide ballot measure that establishes a voter ID requirement for voting in California elections is approved by a majority of voters at the California statewide general election currently scheduled for November 3, 2026. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No.” If by the last legally operative deadline for placing measures on the November 3, 2026 statewide ballot, including any deadline set or modified by statute governing the initiative qualification process, no qualifying voter identification initiative has been approved for submission to voters, and there is no enacted statute or pending court order that could still place such a measure on that ballot, the market will resolve “No”. If the election is officially rescheduled, the same rule applies to the new ballot and its corresponding deadlines. The resolution source will be based on the official certified results of the vote as published by the California Secretary of State. Subsequent litigation, administrative challenges, or failure of any post-approval triggers will not be considered.

Why this category?

confidence: high

Category

Politics

Source

Manual override (pattern match)

Matched term

general election

Reason

Election markets are Politics.

Categories come from a deterministic engine: manual overrides (highest priority) → sports hard markers → event-tag rules → keyword rules → Gamma category hint → default. The engine is versioned in category-overrides.ts; methodology lives at /methodology.

FAQ — questions readers actually ask

What is the current Polymarket probability for "California voter ID referendum passes?"?

As of Mon, 18 May 2026 11:32:50 GMT, YES is priced at 39% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed +1.0pp in the last 24 hours, +0.0pp in the last hour, and +1.0pp in the last 7 days.

When does this market resolve?

This market resolves by Nov 3, 2026 (2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z). Resolution is determined from the market description on Polymarket.

What source determines the outcome?

Resolution is sourced from the market description on Polymarket. Polymarket's UMA optimistic oracle is the final settlement layer; if the published source is ambiguous, UMA tokenholders adjudicate. Source-extraction confidence is shown in the Resolution & Risk block above.

How much is being traded on this market?

$0.00 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $8.1K. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $6.5K. Spread between best bid and best ask: 2.0¢.

Is this a trade recommendation?

No. Orrery describes — never predicts. Every signal on this market carries explicit Evidence, Backtest, and Action tiers. The Action is always one of: Watch only, Inspect timeline, Create alert, Verify source, or Ignore — never Buy or Sell. The probability above is the market's collective implied probability, not a forecast Orrery is publishing.

How fresh is this data and where does it come from?

This page revalidates from the public Polymarket APIs every 30 seconds. Probability and 24h-change come from Gamma; the chart series comes from the CLOB orderbook history; trade and holder data come from the Data API. The fetched-at timestamp on each block tells you exactly how old the underlying upstream pull was.

Alerts

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