Check out this story by Cindy Carcamo of the Fresno Bee:
A proposition that promised to ignite racial politics in March is now competing with a high-profile recall for voters' attention during the Oct. 7 special election.
Proposition 54, better known as the Racial Privacy Initiative, would bar state and local governments from using or collecting racial and ethnic information about people, mostly relating to public education, contracting and employment. The state constitutional amendment proposal was slated for the March primary but, because the special recall of Gov. Davis is now the next statewide election, the initiative was moved up.
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