Posted on 11/03/2004 12:56:41 AM PST by kattracks
Arizona voters yesterday approved a measure to restrict state aid to illegal immigrants.
Official returns showed 54 percent of the state's voters in favor of Proposition 200, formally titled the Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, with 91 percent of precincts reporting.
The measure was promoted by supporters as a way to curtail fraud by requiring proof of immigration status when obtaining certain government services. It would punish state workers who looked the other way.[snip]
In other ballot measures across the nation, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment authorizing lawmakers to require parental notification of a minor's abortion. By a margin of 65 percent to 35 percent, voters passed the measure, which supporters had added to the ballot in response to Florida courts that had twice struck down legislation to require such notification.
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More than 60 percent of Colorado voters rejected an initiative to immediately change the way the state's electoral votes are awarded to presidential candidates, a proposal critics feared could have thrown the national election results into the courts.
The proposal would have scrapped Colorado's winner-take-all system for its nine electoral votes, making it the third state to divide those votes based on the popular vote. If approved, it would have affected this year's election.
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Good for AZ! Already I can see progress!
Some liberal 'rat judge will strike this down before the ink is dry.
this is really great
they should try this again in California
and take it to the Supreme Court if necessary
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