voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it harder to amend the state constitution, an initiative aimed at heading off a November referendum to enshrine abortion access into state law.The results in Tuesday's special election were a crucial victory for abortion rights advocates, who would have faced the daunting prospect of securing a super-majority of voters this fall if the measure had passed.The proposal, known as Issue 1, would have lifted the threshold for passing future changes to the state constitution to 60 percent of voters, up from 50 percent, as well as imposing more stringent standards for getting such measures on the ballot in the first place.
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