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Despite local rejection, measure is passing statewide
DAVENPORT – Despite vehement local objection to an “inclusive” sexual education mandate, Referendum 90 was passings statewide after an initial election night tally Nov 3.
Approval of R-90 reaffirms a law passed by Democrats in Olympia last spring that requires all public schools to start teaching a sexual education curriculum, including mandatory alternative lifestyle intimacy, in all public schools starting with kindergarten.
The initial count showed the measure had 1,916,159 supporting votes statewide, or 59.38%, as of press time. Opposition, at that time, tallied 1,296,337 votes, or 40.35%.
Lincoln County voters led in rejecting the curriculum, dubbed “seXXX ed” by many parents. Here, 73.97% of voters, so far, rejected the measure, while only 26.03% favored it. That was the highest percentage of rejection among the state's 39 counties.
Voters in only 15 counties were supporting the referendum. East of the Cascades, only voters in Whitman and Walla Walla counties were supporting the sex ed requirement.
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