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- <text id=91TT2561>
- <title>
- Nov. 18, 1991: Election Notes:Ballot Issues
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 18, 1991 California:The Endangered Dream
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 24
- ELECTION NOTES
- Ballot Issues
- </hdr><body>
- <p> NO
- </p>
- <p>-- Washington State. Voters shied away from legalizing
- physician-assisted suicide.
- </p>
- <p> YES
- </p>
- <p>-- District of Columbia. Residents voted 77% to 23% to
- hold makers of assault weapons responsible for the injuries
- those arms inflict.
- </p>
- <p> YES
- </p>
- <p>-- Texas. The state instituted a lottery, which officials
- estimate will bring in some $600 million annually.
- </p>
- <p> YES
- </p>
- <p>-- New Jersey. Voters directed the legislature to pass a
- law codifying the rights of crime victims.
- </p>
- <p> NO
- </p>
- <p>-- Missouri. A $385 million boost in education spending,
- financed by new corporate, tobacco and sales taxes, was rejected
- 65% to 34%. Voters were unmoved by warnings that the school
- system could go bankrupt.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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