Ballots held on issues from gun control to suicide
US VOTERS on Tuesday weighed in on a slew of ballot measures, including gun control and the death penalty.
Here’s a look at how Americans voted on some of these hot-button issues:
Gun control
Voters in four states were asked to decide on measures linked to gun control.
In California, one of the states with the toughest gun control laws, partial results indicated voters were set to approve Proposition 63, which prohibits the possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines and requires certain people to pass background checks in order to purchase ammunition.
Nevada voted to require universal background checks for weapons sales, including private handgun transactions. Voters in Maine appeared set to reject a similar measure.
Washington voters approved a measure allowing judges to prevent dangerous people from possessing guns.
Death penalty
In California, which houses about 25 percent of the country’s death-row inmates, early results showed that voters had rejected a measure that would have abolished the death penalty and replaced it with life without parole.
They approved however Proposition 66 which would overhaul the appeals process to quicken the pace of executions passed.
In Oklahoma, voters overwhelmingly approved a measure affirming the death penalty in the state.
The ballot measure allows the legislature to approve any method of execution not prohibited by the US Constitution. In Nebraska, a con- servative state, voters reinstated the death penalty after state lawmakers abolished it last year.
Assisted suicide
Colorado voters approved a proposition that makes it legal for terminally ill patients to end their lives with the assistance of a physician. The state joins five others, including California, that allow assisted suicide.