CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada voters enshrined same-sex marriage, voting rights and a renewable energy mandate into the state constitution, decisively approving four of five initiatives that appeared on the 2020 ballot.
Voters added the right to same-sex marriage to the state constitution, overturning an amendment voters approved in 2002 to ban the practice.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned state same-sex marriage bans in 2015, but bans remain in the constitutions of 30 states.
The fate of Question 1 — which proposed taking away the Board of Regents' constitutional responsibility to oversee higher education policy decisions —remained too early to call with a large number of ballots yet to be counted on Wednesday.
