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Less than six months after the California State Supreme Court declared in a 4-3 decision that a 2000 gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, the state's voters passed Proposition 8, which will overturn the Court's decision. The proposition was approved with 52% of the vote, or a 400,000-vote margin...
...measure to require more humane confinement of farm animals passed easily in California, with 63% of the vote. The initiative, backed by the Humane Society, will ensure that at minimum penned animals have enough space to lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. Presently, many animals are kept in small crates that impair much of their movement. The new bill, which will become law in 2015, will impact more than 20 million animals, including egg-laying hens, breeding pigs and calves raised for veal...
...passed Proposition 102 on Tuesday, further amending the state's constitution to define marriage expressly as "a union between one man and one woman." Although a similar proposition was defeated at the polls in 2006, the initiative passed in this election with 56% of the vote. Three states - Arizona, California and Florida - voted on gay marriage bans this year, down from 11 states four years...
Kareem Crayton, a professor of law and politics at the University of Southern California and an expert on ballot initiatives, suggests that increased Democratic voter turnout combined with the stance that many libertarians take on end-of-life issues may have played a role in the measure's success. "Many libertarians think about the notion of death as one of the most personal decisions one could make," he said, adding that they don't want "the government getting...
...California's somewhat controversial Proposition 7, which would have required state utility companies to generate 50% of their energy from renewable sources by 2025, was handily defeated with 65% of the vote. Although it seemed a promising measure in one of the nation's most environmentally progressive states, critics said that existing mandates, which require utilities to generate 20% of their power from renewable sources by 2010, are already succeeding and that the new measure would only increase electricity costs and undermine progress by hampering small alternative energy companies...