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Known as the "Great Grape Referendum," the vote was finally held...
...Great Grape Referendum had a voter turnout of about 50 percent, or 3,166 students, while the Undergraduate Council elections held in 1996 brought only 43 percent...
...Election Day two weeks ago, voters in Cambridge passed a non-binding referendum opposing the standardized test...
...ballot language didn't spell out what was at stake, commentators everywhere, including the editorial boards of the state's three major newspapers, made it abundantly clear the proposition was a referendum on the decency of Nebraska itself. Even the football coach came out against it. Was Nebraska going to keep an open mind on the question of gay rights or define itself as absolutely intolerant...
Realizing the difficulties associated with defeating a proposal that gives money back to voters, Democrats tried to make the vote a referendum on Gov. A. Paul Cellucci and Lt. Gov. Jane Swift. Polls show both have low popularity in the state...