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Republicans are voting at a higher rate throughout most of Colorado's counties, even in Democratic strongholds like Denver and Boulder counties. Based on data provided Tuesday morning by the Secretary of State, 83,662 more Republicans than Democrats had submitted their ballots early. That data doesn't account for any ballots dropped off Tuesday or those completed and submitted at a polling place.

Runner-up headline: How’s that ‘Sanctuary City’ thingamabob working out? The California residents who elected Jerry Brown should be overjoyed at tomorrow’s news story in the Wall Street Journal: 40,000 state convicts were ordered released so that they can roam the streets. A three-judge panel in a California federal district court ruled in January that overcrowding in the state’s prison system, the nation’s largest, is the main cause of substandard medical and mental health care that violates prisoners’ Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment… The state houses 164,000 inmates in a system designed to hold about...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Fresh off a high-profile campaign trip to Ohio for President Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to California for a final weekend of campaigning before Tuesday's election. The governor began a two-day bus tour of the state Saturday by speaking out about several of the 16 initiatives on the California ballot. He drew some of the most emotional responses when criticizing Proposition 66, an initiative that seeks to amend the state's "three-strikes" sentencing law. Critics of the initiative said it would allow thousands of violent offenders to be freed from the state prison system. "Proposition 66 is...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will hit the television airwaves Wednesday urging the electorate to defeat Proposition 66, the measure that would soften California's decade-old three-strikes law. With a week to Election Day, Schwarzenegger donated $1 million from his multi-million-dollar California Recovery Team fund to pay for the 15-second spots. The California Recovery Team is an account the governor uses to support or defeat political causes, and is generated by donations.

Poll: Voters favor softening of '3 strikes' law By Howard Mintz Mercury News With just weeks to go before the election, California voters remain strongly in favor of a ballot measure that would soften the state's tough "three strikes, you're out" law, according to Field Poll results to be released today. A survey of voters earlier this month found 65 percent support Proposition 66, which would require that a defendant be convicted of a serious or violent felony to qualify for a "three strikes" sentence of 25 years to life. Right now, California is the only state that allows a...

PALMDALE - A proposition that would place new restrictions on California's three-strikes prison-sentencing law has been met with contempt by officials who represent the Antelope Valley. Proposition 66, which voters will see on election ballots this November, seeks to amend the current three-strikes law by requiring increased sentences only for violent or serious felonies. Supporters say it restores the original intention of the three-strikes law, which they say has been misused to put nonviolent, petty offenders in prison for life. But opponents say it would create a dangerous legal loophole for convicted criminals and flood the streets with newly released...

Mega-billionaire George Soros is donating $150,000 to a proposition that will change California's Three Strikes law. Soros and two other wealthy liberal donors have donated $450,000 to weaken California's tough sentencing law. The San Diego Union Tribune reported that the money will be critical for proponents of the measure to get their message on TV. The paper said that opponents of the proposition "say the contribution will actually help their cause by making it clear that wealthy out-of-state donors are trying to dismantle California's criminal justice laws." Soros is also joined by Peter Lewis, founder of Progressive Insurance and a...