The State - News from July 20, 1988
Secretary of State March Fong Eu has certified the results from the June 7 election showing that Proposition 74, Gov. George Deukmejian’s $1-billion bond measure, was defeated by 541 votes. The final official canvass includes ballots from a precinct in Pomona that were cast by mail after officials discovered that the original ballots cast in the precinct had disappeared. The 541-vote margin makes Proposition 74 the closest statewide election since 1915.
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