Results on Ballot Crime Measures

See yesterday’s post for a description of the ballot measures. Here are the results as of 8 ET / 5 PT the morning after:

California‘s Proposition 36, partially rolling back the disastrous Prop. 47 of 2014, passed by a landslide 70-30. Much closer is the deceptive measure to forbid compelled work for prisoners, being sold as an “anti-slavery” measure in a state that forbade slavery at its birth 175 years ago. With no opposition funding or advertising and not even an opposition ballot argument, it is still going down 45-55. Give the voters credit for seeing through it on their own.

In Colorado, Amendment I, making an exception to the right to bail for first-degree murder cases, is sailing through 69-31. Proposition 128, a truth-in-sentencing law requiring service of 85% of the sentence before parole eligibility for murder-2, sexual assault, and some other violent crimes is also passing by a landslide, 62-38. Proposition 130, a police funding measure, is ahead 53-47.

In Arizona, Proposition 311, also a funding measure, is passing handily, 64-36. In Missouri, though, a measure for funding via fees is going down by a similar margin, 39-61.

Overall, it was a very good election for races and measures specifically on crime. And whatever one may think of former President / President-elect Trump, his first-term judicial appointments overall have been vastly better on crime issues than the appointees of his predecessor and successor. Let us hope that continues in his second term.