Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council devoted its attention last night to revising election procedures, voting to place on constitutional referendum a proposal to change the present preferential voting for Council elections, and to hold the elections for Class Marshal in December...
Sullivan refused to make any comment on the defeat of the two referendum questions. He also refused to make a statement on what he intended to do about the appointments for the school committee. "You can wait and report on it when the time comes," he said...
...voters of Cambridge overwhelmingly rejected the 17 controversial School Committee appointments and the proposed abolition of proportional representation at the polls yesterday. It was a clear sweep for the Cambridge Civic Association on the two referendum questions in this year's election...
...question of PR, which was placed on the ballot and publicized by the Sullivan forces largely to draw attention from the first referendum, the vote was 18,000 to 13,000 in favor of retaining this system of balloting...
...quorum, two thirds of the membership, is necessary to pass either of the two main items on the agenda, which are constitutional amendments. One of the two, a motion to change the present proportional representation balloting system, also requires sanction by two-thirds of the College in a referendum...