Amid all of the other incredible results in the recent election was a sweet bit of electoral justice in Iowa:

(via CNN)

Voters in Iowa chose to remove three high court justices who helped make Iowa the first Midwestern state to permit same-sex marriage.

The vote marks the first time a member of the Iowa Supreme Court has been rejected by the voters under the current system that began in 1962.

Under the voting system in Iowa, each of the three justices up for retention -- Chief Justice Marsha Ternus, David Baker and Michael Streit -- needed simply to get more "yes" votes than "no" votes in the election to be elected for another eight-year term. They faced no opponents. None of the judges raised money for the campaign.

While all seven justices on the court ruled with Ternus, Baker and Streit, those three were the only ones whose seats were up for retention. None of them received the 50 percent "yes" vote needed to remain on the bench.

In other words, these judges' actions (forcing gay marriage on the state) were seen as nothing more than liberal judicial activism by the voting public - and they got thrown out on their ears.  And there are four more of them that still have to face the voters in the future.

In the meantime, newly elected Republican Governor Terry Brandstad will get to fill the spots of the three "fired" justices.

It will be fun to watch how other judges that are subject to popular vote (or retention) begin to act in the aftermath of the Iowa vote.

Also, it's worth pointing out that this was "supposedly' an election where social issues like gay marriage didn't matter.  And we see how that went.