Word: overturn
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...even if the referendum passes, the state legislature could vote to overturn it under Massachusetts law. Kaufman, however, says this was unlikely because of the political implications of overturning a voter mandate...
...council voted last night to overturn the decision of council Parliamentarian David A. Smith '94, who had ruled the student vote binding...
Last week, students voted by more than 18 percentage points on all five referendum questions to overturn current council policies. Besides thefee hike and election procedure, other referendumissues included the option to waive the councilfee on term bills, Collegewide election of councilexecutives and distribution of extra council fundsto house committees...
Davis also said the vote to make the referendumadvisory is unconstitutional because the councilvoted only to overturn the parliamentarian'sdecision, which requires just a simple majority...
...questions gone the way the councilwanted them to, Liston said, "there would havebeen no need to pass" the vote to overturn theparliamentarian's decision tonight...