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Monday, December 13, 2010

Abel Maldonado Recieves 2010 Anti-Corruption Award from NYC Independence Party



California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado received a 2010 Anti-Corruption Award from NYC Independence Party Sunday afternoon at the Tribeca Grill. Maldonado, introduced at the event by independentvoting.org president Jackie Salit, was responsible for putting top two open primary initiative Proposition 14 on the ballot this year in California. Prop 14 was passed with 60% of the vote and allows 3.4 million independent and decline-to-state voters in the state to vote in primaries. Lt. Gov. Maldonado will be speaking this afternoon at the No Labels launch in NYC (see livestream here)

UPDATED: Richard Winger (Ballot Access News) just called in with a correction. Prop 14 passed with 53.73% of the vote. Thanks, Rich!

1 comment:

richardwinger said...

Prop. 14 passed with 53.73% of the vote, not 60%. And independents already were permitted to vote in Democratic and Republican primaries for congress and state office, even before Prop. 14 passed.