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Voters sent mixed signals on statewide measures. On abortion, Missouri rejected Amendment 3, which would have repealed the abortion-rights amendment voters passed in 2024 and allowed abortion only for medical emergencies, rape, incest or fatal fetal anomalies; it failed about 55% to 45% in preliminary results, and its constitutional ban on gender-transition care for minors fell with it. Nevada's Question 6 and Virginia's Question 1 passed; Idaho's Proposition 1, which would have created an abortion right, failed with about 44% yes (NBC).

Measures requiring voter ID or proof of citizenship passed in Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota and West Virginia, while Arizona's Prop 144 and California's Prop 39 failed, NBC projects. Arizona and Colorado approved measures tying school sports or facilities to birth sex. Missouri voters rejected Proposition A, the 2025 congressional map; Virginia voters removed the state's same-sex marriage ban and restored voting rights on release from prison. California's billionaire wealth tax (Prop 40) was trailing but uncalled.

Some results were still being counted at the cutoff.

There were 41 local ballot measures on data centers in 10 states on November 3, according to Ballotpedia, and voters sided against data centers in every one but Harwood, North Dakota, CNBC reports. Ohio had 21 of them; several towns wrote data center bans into their charters, some limited to so-called hyperscalers. Kansas towns including Emporia and El Dorado passed bans, and Joliet, Illinois, voters said no to an advisory question on AI data centers, Reason reports. The results are preliminary, and trackers' counts differ slightly.

The issue also ran at the top of the ticket. In Ohio, Sherrod Brown ousted Sen. Jon Husted after calling him "the face of data centers," and Governor-elect Amy Acton supports a "conditional moratorium." In Texas, Gina Hinojosa blamed Gov. Greg Abbott for the rapid buildout. In a CNBC voter poll, 56% said data centers were a crucial or major factor in their vote.

The industry's Data Center Coalition told Fox Business that data centers bring jobs, tax revenue and investment.