California had 12 propositions on the ballot. Excluding bond acts, those that passed are:
Prop 2 - Standards for Confining Farm Animals;
Prop 8 - Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry; and
Prop 9 - Criminal Justice System. Victims' Rights. Parole.
(Links are to the official Voter Information Guide from the CA Secretary of State's website.)
Another one that may pass is
Prop 11 - Redistricting, but the vote is too close to call until the absentee ballots are tallied.
Election return results are available
here, which show in the case of Prop 8 a total of 5,387,939 votes for and 4,883,460 against (as of the time of this post).
The immediate background on this measure stems from Prop 22 in the 2000 election which passed (61.4% approval) and created section 308.5 of the California Family Code: "
Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court invalidated the statute, ruling it as a violation of the equal protection clause of the state's constitution. Proposition 8 was written to insert the same wording as Prop 22 directly into the constitution.
--ETA: All of the precincts have now reported.
Here are the counts apart from any outstanding absentee ballots.
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Originally Posted by epchick
Well I don't think Texas has any new laws (well because there wasn't any on the ballot).
But I will say that i'm pretty disappointed in California. I kinda wish that I was still registered to vote there, but I don't know if it would have made a difference. California voted Yes on Prop 8.
ETA: In case there is someone that doesn't know, Prop 8 is initiative to amend the California constitution to eliminate gay marriage & to add that marriage is between a man & a woman.
ETA2: Hopefully someone who currently lives in California will come in and talk about it, but according to Wikipedia--as of today there are still 3 million absentee ballots that have yet to be counted. The vote on Prop 8 is currently 52.5% Yes versus 47.5% No.
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