California voters narrowly approve Prop. 1, delivering a win for Newsom

Preliminary election results from the California Secretary of State’s website on Thursday showed that 50.2% of voters chose to approve the measure, while 49.8% voted to reject it. That represents a difference of about 29,000 votes in a race where more than 7 million people turned in a ballot. The razor thin results defied predictions made before the state’s March 5 primary election that the measure would sail to victory. Instead, it took more than two weeks before media outlets finally called the result on Wednesday, even as the Secretary...