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!