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...Gabay moved to block four of Davis's five referendum issues, saying that each individual question had to be supported by more than 600 signatures...
Epps threatened to intervene and force the council to conduct the referendum. But Davis was already organizing a second petition effort and finally succeeded in placing all five issues on the ballot according to Gabay's rules...
...council conducted the referendum, but it was marred by charges of misconduct and fraud--including council members allegedly intimidating voters and leaving ballots unsecured in the council office...
This time, Gabay himself charged that the council had violated its own bylaws. He asked the council to invalidate the results and authorize a new referendum to be administered by an outside group...
Undergraduates overwhelmingly rejected all five council-supported positions in this second referendum. But since less than a quarter of the students voted ,the council overruled its parliamentarian's decision that the referendum be binding...