With all the votes counted, Prop 204 wins in Yuma County

Nearly two weeks after the election, the Yuma County's final vote count put Prop 204 over the top in a surprising victory. While Prop 204 won statewide by large margins (62-38), it wasn't looking good on election night with the No vote over the Yes 48% to 52%.

But thousands of ballots were yet to be counted and it just so happened that these voters (early ballots turned two days or less before the Election and provisional ballots) were strongly pro-Prop 204, taking the Yes vote over the top by 16 votes (13,616-13,600).

That may seem like a narrow margin, but for a county whose only daily paper was the largest paper to oppose Prop 204 (the major dailies in the state all lined up behind Prop 204) and whose Farm Bureau has so much supposed clout that all of state legislators and nearly all the state legislature candidates endorsed the Opposition, this is a major victory for the humane treatment of animals and for the future of pro-animal issues in Yuma County.

Thank you Yuma County for voting Yes on Prop 204!

While state's three largest papers endorse 204, Yuma Sun opposes

With Proposition 204 being endorsed by the state's three largest daily papers (Arizona Republic, Tucson Daily Star and East Valley Tribune)and a number of smaller papers, the Yuma Sun became the lone voice of editorial opposition among the state's daily newspapers.

The Sun’s editorial was little more than a reprint of the opposition’s talking points, talking points that other papers across the state have dismissed as hogwash.

We hope that Yuma residents dismiss the Sun’s editorial for what it really was: a one-sided misrepresentation to further its ideological opposition to any regulation of any kind.