Election Night: Keep Your Eyes On BallotBlog

Hi everyone. Welcome to BISC's Election Day coverage. We will be keeping you in the loop on all of the ballot initiative results tonight, so stay tuned right here.

More to come later today...

1:30

    TABOR (Howie Rich's initiatives) fails in Maine, Oregon, and Nebraska.

   

California renewable energy has been defeated.

    Montana’s lobbying reform initiative passes.

   

Oregon Roundup
    Eminent domain reform passes.
    Federal personal tax exemption for state tax credit fails.
    TABOR fails.
    Two inter-related campaign finance reform measures split.

12:45 PM

    Colorado
    No legalized marijuana.
    Yes to restricting elected officials from becoming lobbyists.
    No to the restrictive “65% solution” for funding education.
    No to allowing initiatives at all levels of Colorado government.

    Arizona
    Yes to a real smoking ban
    No to the tobacco-industry measure meant to confuse voters.
    Yes to Howie Rich’s regulatory takings measure.

    South Dakota
    Yes to a tobacco tax.
    No to revoking judicial immunity, allowing criminals to sue judges and juries.

    Idaho
    Yes to a gay marriage ban.

11:45 PM

    South Dakota rejects the draconian abortion ban passed earlier this year!

11:25 PM

    Arizonans do not want to give $1,000,000 to one lucky voter, just for voting.

    But they do want to raise their minimum wage.

11:15 PM

    Florida looks like it will increase to 60% + 1 the passage of all future constitutional    
    amendments (initiatives and referenda).

11 PM - Good news.

    Montana and Nevada will raise their states' minimum wage.

10:45 PM - Bad news.

    Tennessee and Wisconsin will ban gay marriage.

    Michigan will ban affirmative action in education and hiring. Michigan has rejected annual         public education increases tied to inflation.  

    Ohio will maintain its prohibition on slot machine gambling.

    Banning Kelo-style eminent domain (not to be confused with regulatory takings) will pass in         New Hampshire and South Carolina.

9:30 PM

    Banning Kelo-style eminent domain (not to be confused with regulatory takings) will pass in         Georgia and Florida.

     Florida tobacco settlement money for tobacco prevention will likely pass.

9 PM

    Exit polling projects that Arizona's English as the official language amendment will pass. 

8:30 PM

    SC same sex marriage ban wins.

8 PM: Wow, CNN is calling this stuff early. So take these with a grain of salt:

    MO minimum wage wins.
    OH minimum wage wins.
    TN same sex marriage ban wins.
 

7 PM: CNN is projecting that Virginia will be making gay marriage (and all domestic partnership benefits) illegal.