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California votes to keep ban on affirmative action

By Nicholas Rowan
Published November 4, 2020 4:06pm ET
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California votes to keep ban on affirmative action
Affirmative action includes the practice by universities of requiring lower test scores for admission of Black students, while requiring higher test scores for White and Asian students. | (PeopleImages/Getty Images)

Californians voted on Tuesday to keep a long-standing affirmative action ban.

The effort to keep the ban won by a wide margin, 56% to 43%, according to the Associated Press.

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