CA Election Results

[annie90807]

vote.sos.ca.gov/

State ballot measures vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/59.htm

[Brian]

Yeah. Dammit. Prop 11 passed too, apparently, with a 100,000-vote margin before the rest of the absentee and provisional votes are counted.

I'd been so hopeful about Prop 8 going down that I'm not going to let its passage ruin my beautiful buzz. We can put an affirmative constitutional amendment on the June 2010 ballot.

My parents, so full of joy and hope this morning because of Obama's election, voted yes. They can be still be persuaded that same sex marriages do not endanger theirs in any way, I believe -- we'll have thousands of couples who married in the last five months statewide to provide examples.

Also, from talking to some of my less politically active friends, I believe there was confusion about the meaning of "yes" and "no." We'll never know how many were confused and voted "yes" thinking they were affirming basic rights -- and whether they made the difference.


Modified to add: The L.A. County semi-official election results show that the yes on 8 votes only beat the no's by 21,000 votes out of 2.6 million counted. Scroll way down:

rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect_results/genov08.ets

[Brian]

I really appreciate those Secretary of State links, Annie -- and keep using them. Some 2.1 million ballots remain uncounted with 400,000 of those in L.A. County, at last posting. Click on "unprocessed ballot report" in red near the bottom of this page for the PDF file:

vote.sos.ca.gov/Misc/votebymail.htm

No doubt, many of the last-minute absentee, provisional, damaged and not-readable-by-machine ballots will be disqualified for various reasons, but that's a huge number uncounted.

Especially when Proposition 11, the redistricting measure, is leading by only 152,285 votes as of 10:09 tonight.