A Santa Ana ballot measure that would have granted noncitizens the right to vote in local elections is failing with voters. Of the more than 55,000 ballots counted so far, nearly 62% rejected Measure DD.

Voters in a Southern California city have rejected a measure that would have allowed residents who aren’t U.S. citizens to vote in local elections.

Santa Ana would have been the first city in California to allow non-U.S. citizens to vote in city council and mayoral races.

California voters have rejected a ballot measure that would have banned forced labor in jails and prisons, yet more evidence from the Nov. 5 election that voters have lost their appetite for criminal justice reforms amid growing frustrations over what many see as worsening crime in their communities.

California's Constitution already prohibits so-called involuntary servitude, but an exception allows it to be used as a punishment for crime.