Voters rejecting 7 of 12 measures in California
Returns for initiatives on the statewide ballot as reported by the California Secretary of State’s Office. Totals include all inperson voting precincts and several million mail ballots. An undetermined number of latearriving mail ballots are still to be counted.
Proposition 14: Would refund the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency, by allowing it to issue $ 5.5 billion in bonds for research, training and facilities construction.
YES: 51.1%
NO: 48.9%
Proposition 15: Would revise Proposition 13, the 1978 law limiting property tax increases, by allowing for more frequent reassessments of commercial property.
YES: 48.3%
NO: 51.7%
Proposition 16: Would lift the state ban on affirmative action in public university admissions and government contracting and hiring.
YES: 44.0%
NO: 56.0%
Proposition 17: Would restore voting rights of people on parole who have finished their state or federal prison terms.
YES: 59.1%
NO: 40.9%
Proposition 18: Would give 17yearolds the vote in primary elections if they will turn 18 before the general election.
YES: 44.9%
NO: 55.1%
Proposition 19: Would allow older homeowners to keep a lower property tax assessment when they move. Would reassess inherited homes valued at more than $ 1 million if the late owner’s children or grandchildren don’t intend to live in them.
YES: 51.5%
NO: 48.5%
Proposition 20: Would expand the list of crimes for which there is no early release, adding sex trafficking of a child and felony domestic violence. Would require DNA collection for those convicted of certain misdemeanors.
YES: 37.7%
NO: 62.3%
Proposition 21: Would allow local governments to expand rent control to cover newer buildings, singlefamily homes and apartments vacated by tenants.
YES: 40.3%
NO: 59.7%
Proposition 22: Would exempt appbased drivers such as those who work for Uber, Lyft and DoorDash from a state law that classifies some gig workers as employees.
YES: 58.4%
NO: 41.6%
Proposition 23: Would increase state regulation of kidney dialysis clinics.
YES: 36.0%
NO: 64.0%
Proposition 24: Would expand the data privacy law that passed in 2018.
YES: 56.1%
NO: 43.9%
Proposition 25: Would affirm state legislation to replace money bail with evaluation of defendant’s safety or flight risk.
YES: 44.5%
NO: 55.5%