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The new disclosure forms reveal that the state Democratic party and Democratic politicians gave heavily in the campaign's closing days to defeat the gay-marriage ban, which overturned the state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in June. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the same amount from her re-election account to the No on 8 campaign.
United States' Eightmaps
While the site is no longer live, and a federal court eventually found Prop 8 unconstitutional in , Eightmaps demonstrates how the increased computability and reusability of open data — especially data related to contentious issues like same-sex marriage — might be used in unexpected ways that not only create major privacy concerns for citizens, but could also lead to harassment and threats based on political disagreements.
More than $83 million spent on Prop 8
The California Supreme Court upheld those marriages, but ruled that voters had properly enacted the law. With same-sex marriages unlikely to resume in California any time soon, Love Honor Cherish, a gay rights group based in Los Angeles, plans to start gathering signatures for a November ballot initiative asking voters to repeal Proposition 8.