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With 100% of precincts reporting, voters in the city of Los Angeles seem to have passed three of the four measures on yesterday's ballot, each of which have different majorities needed to pass.
Here's how the results breakdown, via the LA County Clerk's Office:
L.A. A -- Violence Prevention Programs (needs 2/3 of all votes cast to pass)
Yes 567,560 66%
No 290,799 34%
L.A. B -- Low Rent Housing (needs majority to pass)
Yes 492,631 60%
No 331,070 40%
L.A. J --Community College Bonds (needs 55% to pass)
Yes 849,759 70%
No 366,678 30%
L.A. Q -- LAUSD School Bonds (needs 55% to pass)
Yes 709,726 69%
No 319,832 31%
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The way I'm reading this, it seems like all four measures passed.
No. Prop A requires a 2/3rds majority to pass. With 858359 total votes (for + against), it would need to have received 572240 votes in favor (4680 more than it received). Like measure R, this too will not be decided until the late-arriving absentee and approved provisional ballots are counted.
I'm reading only the first one not passing by .5% (it's tally is 66.1% vs the 66.6% needed) and the other three passing...
I believe SeanYoda and paul have the right interpretation; the ballots seem to be tallying at just shy of a full 2/3 of all votes cast majority.
that "two of the four" is my error; it should read three and i've just made the correction. apologies. the different passing majority needs make all this very confusing, and as of writing time, the City and County haven't posted "official" results.