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Californians vote down cancer-research fund — or do they?
By a margin of less than 1%, California voters yesterday appear to have nixed a ballot measure that would make the state one of the world’s largest supporters of cancer research. But with proponents of the measure arguing that hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots have yet to be counted — many more than the 63,000-vote difference currently separating the yes and no sides — the contest may not yet be over.
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