The California Secretary of State’s web page, as of early afternoon, June 15, shows that Proposition 14 passed with 53.8% of the vote. The margin had been reported at 54.2% on the morning of June 14. The change is because more and more votes have been counted. There is no likelihood that the outcome will change, however. UPDATE: on June 16, the margin is 53.7%. UPDATE: on June 18, it is 53.6%.

The closest statewide race for any California June 2010 election is the Republican race for Insurance Commissioner. Currently the total stands at 814,647 for Brian Fitzgerald, and 814,413 for Mike Villines.

According to this story, the Arizona Clean Elections Commission has denied a request from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to change the public funding law, and let candidates who are receiving public funding also receive private money. Brewer wanted the Commission to implement this change by asking the U.S. District Court that is hearing McComish v Bennett to allow the change.

McComish v Bennett is the pending lawsuit in which the plaintiffs, who are candidates not seeking public funding, have temporarily (at least) won a court ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, stopping the Commission from giving extra public funding to participating candidates who have privately-funded opponents with a great deal of money.

The Associated Press has this story about the Constitution Party’s lawsuit against South Dakota election laws that make it extremely difficult for small ballot-qualified parties to place nominees on their own primary ballots.

The South Dakota law is peculiar. It requires the Constitution Party to obtain 250 signatures of party members on petitions to place members of the party on its own primary ballot. But, if the Constitution Party had polled 2.5% of the vote for Governor in November 2006, then the Constitution Party candidates this year would only need 84 signatures of party members.

The article does not mention the other issue in the case, the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators.