A ballot measure that would have made it easier to finance affordable housing and other public projects in California has failed. Proposition 5 was trailing 56% to 44% as of Friday afternoon, a 1. ...

The 200-word summary, as the judge put it, is the "elevator pitch" outlining what the measure proposes to do. This was not the only obstacle to the effort to get on the ballot.

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