re: City of St. George effort apparently fails

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Why was so much effort put into keeping people from signing the petition or removing their names if they already had, as opposed to people just voting no if it got to an election?

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Well, there was the massive fear that once it got out to the masses, you'd have a lot of people with no vested interest whatsoever voting for the thing .. These types of votes are successful more often than not .. Keeping it off the ballot was the only tried and true way to guarantee defeat, or at least delay it ..