On November 7, California voters rejected an initiative that would have imposed discrimination against small qualified parties into the election law. The “Clean Elections” initiative, unlike similar initatives that passed years ago in Maine, Massachusetts and Arizona, would have provided that Democratic and Republican nominees automatically get substantially more public funding than anyone else. This, despite the fact that all candidates seeking public funding would have been subject to the same burden of getting a specified number of voters to give them $5 contributions. The initiative lost 74%-26%.