Votes going against affirmative action

Returns for initiatives on the statewide ballot as reported by the California Secretary of State’s Office. Totals include 60% of 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: 51.7% NO: 48.3% Proposition 15: Would revise Proposition 13, the 1978 law limiting property tax increases, by allowing for more frequent reassessments of commercial property.

YES: 49.1% NO: 50.9%

Proposition 16: Would lift the state ban on affirmative action in public university admissions and government contracting and hiring. YES: 45.0% NO: 55.0%

Proposition 17: Would restore voting rights of people on parole who have finished their state or federal prison terms. YES: 59.9% NO: 40.1%

Proposition 18: Would give 17yearolds the vote in primary elections if they will turn 18 before the general election. YES: 45.8% NO: 54.2% 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: 52.0% NO: 48.0%

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 several types of misdemeanors.

YES: 36.9% NO: 63.1%

Proposition 21: Would allow local governments to expand rent control to cover newer buildings, singlefamily homes and apartments vacated by tenants. YES: 40.7% NO: 59.3% 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: 58.0% NO: 42.0% Proposition 23: Would increase state regulation of kidney dialysis clinics. YES: 35.9% NO: 64.1% Proposition 24: Would expand the data privacy law that California passed in 2018. YES: 56.6% NO: 43.4% Proposition 25: Would affirm state legislation to replace money bail with evaluation of defendant’s safety or flight risk. YES: 45.5% NO: 54.5%