The Mormon Church took an active role in encouraging California voters to support Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that sought to ban same-sex marriages in California. Proposition 8 passed 52 percent to 48 percent. The Mormon Church encouraged members to vote yes on Proposition 8 and helped to fund initiatives in support of Proposition 8. There is currently an online petition which is attempting to get 5,000 signatures in an effort to convince the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division to investigate the church's activities surrounding the initiative. Other activists are also asking the IRS to investigate. In seeking an IRS investigation, activists seem to be relying on the part of the Internal Revenue Code that forbids 501(c)(3) organizations from spending a "substantial part" of its activities on lobbying. Organizations in California are also alleging that the Mormon Church violated state campaign finance rules. According to the New York Times, "California officials will investigate accusations that the Mormon Church neglected to report a battery of nonmonetary contributions — including phone banks, a Web site and commercials" — on behalf of Proposition 8. The Times reports that Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, filed a complaint asserting "that the church's reported contributions — about $5,000, according to state election filings — vastly underestimated its actual efforts in passing Proposition 8."