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5. You are thinking of Issue 2 I believe

Reply to FarPoint (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:17 AM

Nov 2012

And yes it got beat because supporters did not get the message out and the language on the ballot was totally confusing.

Issue 1 was to rewrite the states constitution and was also defeated.

We had a line trying to inform people: No on 1, yes on 2. But as I stood outside of one polling location on Election day just before the polls closed, I heard people saying they just didn't understand Issue 2 and simply voted no.

It would have gotten this thing out of the hands of those who benefit from the gerrymandering.

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