California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.
With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.
What a poorly written headline (not by OP). It makes it sound like rejecting the proposition will raise minimum wage by $2, when that’s what the proposition would have done. Technically correct, using the less-common usage of a comma to include a second subject. But if that’s not intentional and malicious, ABC News has a terrible editor…