Comment by fgandiya | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fgandiya | Hacker News Reader

Cool. I as I was furious checking the polls, I noticed that a lot of referenda were being voted on.

Besides a lot of approved tax exceMptions and administrative stuff, some referenda include

* Asking DC to look into becoming it's own state as New Columbia

* Making Alabama a right to work state and Virginia did not

* Legal weed in California, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota

* Raised minimum wage In Arizona, Colorado and Washington

* Washington wants to limit free speech to individuals and not corporations

* Background checks for purchasing weapons in California and nevada

* No universal health care in Colorado (80% no)

* Florida voted against allowing home owners to use solar to make their own electricity

* Indiana and Kansas voted for the right to fish hunt etc.

* Minnesota removed the power for officials to set their own salary

* Missouri wants voter ID laws

* Nebraska abolishes the death penalty

* Oklahoma makes the death penalty constitutional and let's them use unconstitutional means of execution

* New Jersey disallowed gambling in two more counties

* New Mexico allows the state to deny bail for felons

* Oregon let's universities invest in equities

* South Dakota keeps minimum wage as it is

Seems like weed is legal (to some degree) in lots of states. Also, it seems like change on the national level will only happen if they ripple through.

I got these from the Google election thingy.i don't know if the US has binding referendums, so don't if the things I mentioned may or may not happen.

> Nebraska abolishes the death penalty

Nebraska kept the death penalty, or more correctly, reinstated it.

http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-poli...

The vote was, do you want to repeal the repeal of the death penalty.

Seems you're right. I guess that update thing isn't super accurate since I saw "repeal" as the chosen decision.

Yes, they repealed the previous repeal. It was abolished in Nebraska, now it's back. Reinstate would have kept the previous abolition.

https://ballotpedia.org/Nebraska_Death_Penalty_Repeal,_Refer...

california doubled down on the death penalty

prop 62 (o)

> Repeals death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Applies retroactively to existing death sentences. Increases the portion of life inmates' wages that may be applied to victim restitution. Fiscal Impact: Net ongoing reduction in state and county criminal justice costs of around $150 million annually within a few years, although the impact could vary by tens of millions of dollars depending on various factors.

prop 66 (i)

> Changes procedures governing state court challenges to death sentences. Designates superior court for initial petitions and limits successive petitions. Requires appointed attorneys who take noncapital appeals to accept death penalty appeals. Exempts prison officials from existing regulation process for developing execution methods. Fiscal Impact: Unknown ongoing impact on state court costs for processing legal challenges to death sentences. Potential prison savings in the tens of millions of dollars annually.

overshadowing two positives in regard incarcerations: 64 legalising of cannabis, and 57 parole for nonviolent offenders (ii)

(o) http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/62/

(i) http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/66/

(ii) http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/

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