The measure garnered more votes than any other in California ballot history to that point and was supported by a majority of voters in every demographic.
Carl Miller, research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, says voting patterns among young people - particularly first-time voters with no ballot box history to look back on - are becoming less predictable.
And thanks to that knowledge, citizens in the state of California voted to ban them, by the widest margin in California ballot initiative history.
Allan Katz, a superdelegate from Tallahassee who supports Mr. Obama, said the plan was "delusional" given the tight time frame, the state's lack of experience with mail-in balloting and its history of voting troubles.
It includes subjects like voting rights acts, direct democracy by way of ballot initiatives, the history and function of the Electoral College, campaign financing and alternative voting systems.
Parker edged Minnesota's Maya Moore and Chicago's Elena Delle Donne in one of the closest ballots in league history.
"There has been no ballot in modern history with this type of concentration of millionaire and billionaire wealth behind it.
The lack of enthusiasm for Mr. Jospin and Mr. Chirac also prompted 14 others to enter the campaign, the biggest, most ideologically varied ballot in French history.
Estimated to have cost $4.9bn – perhaps the second most expensive ballot in democratic history after the US presidential election in 2012 – it brought Narendra Modi to power on a tidal wave of corporate donations.
As Robert Murray notes in "The 103rd Ballot," the standard history of the Convention, the Klan was then in the midst of a major revival, and McAdoo wanted its support.
