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Conservatives Secure Victory on Ballot Measures in Several States

&NewLine;<p>The groundbreaking victory for conservatives on November 5 isn’t confined to the presidential win for President Trump and a Senate majority for Republicans&period; On some important issues&comma; liberals were defeated in different states&comma; including one in which voters rebelled in a liberal stronghold&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday&comma; November 5&comma; liberals saw a major defeat over abortion in the state of Florida&period; Their hopes to get enough votes to pass Amendment 4 to the Florida constitution fell flat at the ballot&period; Dubbed the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Right to Abortion Initiative&comma;” this amendment would have allowed women the right to abortion by annulling the state’s heartbeat law that bans abortion after 6 weeks into pregnancy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Against the required 60&percnt; of votes to pass&comma; the proposed amendment only received about 58&percnt; of the vote&period; The <em>New York Post<&sol;em> and other conservative news media called it a major victory for Governor Ron DeSantis&comma; who signed the heartbeat law in April 2023&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Two other red states&comma; Nebraska and South Dakota&comma; also defeated pro-abortion ballot measures similar to Florida on Election Day&period; <em>The Washington Times<&sol;em> wrote on Thursday &lpar;November 7&rpar; that the pro-life laws in the three states – FL&comma; NE&comma; and SD – save the lives of more than 51&comma;000 unborn babies every year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In another major November 5th victory for conservatives&comma; voters in Arizona approved the Secure the Border Act&comma; aka Proposition 314&period; The law makes it a state crime for any illegal alien to enter the state&period; Under this proposed law&comma; illegal aliens crossing into the state can be arrested&comma; prosecuted in the state courts&comma; and deported by the orders of local judges&period; The law would also criminalize the submission of false information or documents for getting employment or receiving public benefits&period; Townhall&period;com noted that a similar law passed in Texas has been challenged by the Biden administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>One of the most worrying issues for conservatives across the country is the safety of peaceful residents against criminals&period; Democrats have infamously adopted soft-on-crime policies all around&period; In Colorado&comma; a majority blue state&comma; conservatives scored a notable victory by winning over 60&percnt; of the vote for Proposition 128&comma; the proposed law by the influential conservative action committee Advance Colorado&period; Once enacted and after taking effect next year&comma; the new law would mandate convicts of serious crimes – murder&comma; sexual assault&comma; abduction&comma; burglary etc&period; – to spend at least 85&percnt; of their sentence in prison before getting parole&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As reported on Colorado Public Radio&comma; Advance Colorado also secured success at the ballot for two other measures that strengthen the capability of the law enforcement and deny bail to first-degree murder suspects against whom the prosecutors hold strong incriminating evidence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a related and quite interesting development&comma; the leftist favoritism for criminals suffered a setback at the ballot in California where 70&percnt; of voters led Proposition 36 to pass on Election Day&period; Proposition 36&comma; dubbed as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Homelessness&comma; Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act&comma;” counters Democrat Governor’s favored crime-friendly laws on theft and drugs&period; It would allow prosecuting serious theft as a felony even if it is worth less than &dollar;950&comma; the threshold under the Newsome-approved existing law&period; The law would also address rampant homelessness and drug addiction leading to crimes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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