Short diary, but amid all of the aggravating political news recently, I thought some small victory might spread some good cheer (to at least dkos's own zombie man):
As of 6:00 p.m. on Friday, votes in favor of the measure were 835,735 (50.13%) and votes against Prop 203 were 831,314 (49.87%), which puts the measure ahead by 4,421 votes.
Speaking to the Associated Press earlier in the day, Proposition 203 backer Andrew Myers said he expected the measure to pull ahead when more votes were posted Friday evening.
More than 1.63 million votes have been counted in the 10 days since Election Day. The measure started out losing by about 7,200 votes on Nov. 2 and the gap gradually narrowed in the following 10 days.
The measure was behind by about 1,500 votes as of Friday morning. The vast majority of about 57,000 outstanding votes are in Maricopa County, and most are provisional ballots. County Recorder Helen Purcell said those ballots were leaning toward supporters.
For all of Arizona's redneck, race-baiting idiocy, this past election has again showed our other side at the same time, one that on most specific issues is pretty rational (brief example, voters blew away a couple of legislative propositions aimed at taking targeted tax revenues for education and the wildlife and applying them to the general budget against the voter's specific wishes; I could go on, but that would be for another diary).
So cheers (on what looks to be a close victory) to the ongoing struggle to decriminalize MJ. Even though I'm not a big fan of the drug, any blow against the institutionalized insanity known as the "War on Drugs" is cause for celebration.