text: In 2008, the non-partisan California Fair Elections Act passed the legislature and Governor Schwarzenegger signed it, but the law does not take effect unless approved by voters in a referendum in 2010. A proposal to implement Clean Elections in Alaska was voted down by a two-to-one margin in 2008., and a pilot program in New Jersey was terminated in 2008 amid concern about its constitutionality and that the law was ineffective in accomplishing its goals.