See inside for the rundown on propositions and key races.

California voters will be asked on Nov. 8 to sort through the longest list of statewide propositions since the PlayStation 2 was on the market and the St. Louis Rams won the Super Bowl — it is the longest list on a single ballot since 2000. The bumper crop of 17 voter choices encompasses topics as diverse as marijuana legalization, repeal of the death penalty and new workplace rules for actors in adult movies.

Millions of Californians signed petitions to place the initiatives on the ballot, signatures collected on street corners and in shopping mall parking lots. Political consultants said this was one of the most challenging seasons for signature gathering in recent history, with some campaigns paying for-profit companies as much as $5 per voter signature.

This fall’s statewide ballot could have been even longer were it not for a 2014 state law that allowed initiative proponents to negotiate with the Legislature even after submitting enough signatures to qualify a measure.

Six of the 17 propositions seek to amend the state Constitution. They include Gov. Jerry Brown’s effort to revamp the rules on parole from state prison and a requirement that neither house of the Legislature pass any bill that hasn’t been available for public review for at least three days.

Nine measures will ask voters to enact new state laws, with proposals on everything from new background checks for buying ammunition to a $9-billion bond for school construction and modernization projects. Voters will consider, too, the merits of an effort to impose a cap on prescription drug prices paid by state healthcare officials that has been fought by an expensive opposition campaign from the pharmaceutical industry.

The ballot also includes a referendum: Voters will choose to accept or reject a law that bans single-use plastic bags statewide.

While some of the issues seem relatively simple on the surface, others will likely require voters to take a much deeper look.

Political strategists predict that this election’s ballot-measure campaigns will break records for total spending, which topped $474 million as of Oct. 20. The totals below will not add up to that number, though, as several campaign committees are reporting money as being spent on more than one proposition. Meantime, some propositions have attracted no formal opposition, and thus there is no campaign cash on the “No” side.