California voters have just passed a proposition that will increase penalties for children who commit violent crimes (news article, March 8).
THE slow march towards legalising gay marriage was hobbled in November, when voters in California passed a proposition to ban it.
In November, California voters passed a proposition requiring the state to direct most people convicted of nonviolent drug possession into treatment programs rather than prison.
In 1964, Californians overwhelmingly passed a proposition that would amend the state constitution to forbid laws banning race discrimination in housing.
Arizona, for example, passed a proposition in 2000 setting up a nonpartisan redistricting commission and directing it to work without reference to partisan information and without regard to incumbent political bases.
Protecting farm animals like chickens, cows and pigs has become a priority for animal-rights groups across the country; in 2008, California voters passed a proposition that would effectively outlaw the small "battery cages" in which the Elmira passengers once lived.
The Massachusetts political establishment is horrified voters might actually pass a proposition abolishing the state income tax.
For example, San Francisco voters passed a proposition in 2010 creating a pilot program implementing weekend voting at polling stations around the city.
In November 2013, voters in the city of SeaTac passed a proposition that included a $15 minimum wage hike, but airport employees were later excluded by a court order after Alaska Airlines and others filed a suit.
On Tuesday, California voters went further still, passing a ballot measure, Proposition 47, that will turn certain felonies that often result in state-prison sentences into misdemeanors, which are typically punished by lower-level sentences, such as time in county jail.
