POST ELECTION STATEMENT
“Roughly 400,000 votes separate yes from no on Prop 8 – out of 10 million votes tallied.
Based on turnout estimates reported yesterday, we expect that there are more than 3 million and possibly as many as 4 million absentee and provisional ballots yet to be counted.
Given that fundamental rights are at stake, we must wait to hear from the Secretary of State tomorrow about how many votes are yet to be counted as well as where they are from.
It is clearly a very close election and we monitored the results all evening and this morning.
As of this point, the election is too close to call.
Because Prop 8 involves the sensitive matter of individual rights, we believe it is important to wait until we receive further information about the outcome.”
Executive Committee
NO on Prop 8
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
This is one of the reasons Prop 8 passed because of the insane lunacy of the people in charge of defeating this. Get your hand out of the sand....we lost. Now we need to move on and fight another day...get another initiative on the ballot in 4 years giving us our marriage rights back. Plus Obama did not help...he is not the savior everyone thinks he is going to be...just wait....he will disappoint the rest of you like he did us gays.
Yes, I agree the absentees won't matter. I think this action makes sense tho:
----------
Even as the last votes were being counted Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and other opponents filed a challenge with the state Supreme Court.
They contend that California's ballot cannot be used to undermine one group's access to rights enjoyed by other citizens.
They argue that initiatives that make "fundamental" changes to core principles of the state constitution must first be approved by the state Legislature, then sent to voters for passage.
----------
Post a Comment