Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious possibility of a Liston presidency is precisely what makes the council fail to serve student interests. In order to avoid more of the same, the council should adopt and most significant of the campaign reforms which students supported in the May referendum: the direct election of top council executives by students...
While the turnout for the three-day May referendum did not meet the 50 percent that the council said was necessary to make the results automatically binding, 68 percent of those voting did support direct election...
...poor turnout was not helped by the fact that council members failed to table for votes during many meals. Even worse, the referendum was scheduled during the busy Reading Period due to the failure of the previous attempt at a council-run referendum in early...
...bolster such a change, the council should also adopt another reform which passed the referendum: holding elections each semester. Such accountability would allow students the opportunity to vote out members who have failed to perform their duties...
Davis used the key to open the council office two weeks ago to investigate rumors that the ballots on a campus-wide referendum were not secure...