Colorado voters provided a vital boost to the state’s universal school meals program Tuesday night, as two ballot measures directing more funds to the effort cruised to comfortable victories.

Proposition LL, which would allow the meals program to keep more tax money that it’s already collected, had more than 63% support as of 8:20 p.m. Its companion measure, Proposition MM, was also ahead, albeit with a tighter margin of 57% of votes in favor. MM would increase taxes on higher-income earners to further shore up the program.

NBC News declared that MM had won shortly after 8 p.m., and NPR did the same for LL shortly after. Both measures held comfortable margins throughout the night, moving only slightly after the first large batches of votes were reported on the secretary of state’s w

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