THE ELECTION: Victory By the Numbers

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INITIATIVES

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: California voters passed Proposition 187, 59% to 41%, which would bar illegal immigrants from receiving many state benefits. It would also require teachers, doctors and police to report illegal aliens to immigration officials.

ASSISTED SUICIDE: Oregon adoted the only measure in the U.S. to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients.

$ TERM LIMITS: Voters adopted them for congressional posts and other offices in Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Nevada.

GAMBLING: Casino proposals were rejected in Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Wyoming and the Navajo reservation. Missouri approved slot machines on riverboats, and New Mexico okayed video gambling and a lottery.

CRIME: Georgia approved a two-strike rule that mandates tougher penalties for violent felons. California adopted sentences of 25 years to life for three- time felons. Oregon stiffened mandatory sentences for violent crimes. Ohio eliminated the appeals-court phase in death sentences.

TAXES: Oregon, Missouri and Montana rejected a requirement to put all new tax proposals to public vote. Nevada approved a two-thirds legislative approval for tax increases. Massachusetts rejected a graduated income tax in favor of the current flat rate. Arizona passed a cigarette-tax increase. Colorado rejected one. Oklahoma rejected a 1-cent entertainment tax that would have paid for breast-cancer research.

GAY RIGHTS: Oregon and Idaho defeated proposals that would have limited gay- rights protection.

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CREDIT: Data are from an exit poll of 10,210 voters taken on Nov. 8 by Voter News Service. Margin of error is plus or minus 1.5%

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