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that is being proposed. It ' s just the procedural matter of whether the manner in which the question is presented will be able to accomplish what it is intended to accomplish. Namely, the fact that the change that I see from the original proposal which was made to this commission by myself regarding the first general question and two options,, the significant change here is the fact that everybody is to vote on the two options down below. Whereas, in the original proposal that I made, only those who voted yes were to vote on the alternatives presented. If we assume that those 100 people who vote above will go down and vote for options #1 and #2, this proposal might work. If the same number of people go down. I have to look at it in terms of its possible problems as well as the other side of the coin. As I see it, in terms of looking at this thing as to how many people will go and who vote yes or no to the change in Section 3-2 and will go down below to vote on either option #1 , or #2, I think. . .I 'm guessing, of course, but I 'm thinking in terms of 75-80% perhaps, at most, will vote on the alternatives. Hopefully, 100% will but I 'm trying to be very realistic. If a person who votes no above. . .the chances are --again , I 'm guessing--that he will not go down to vote even if he is told, you may and you should, or, you have to, or, whatever. If a man, or woman, or whatever, .a person votes no, in principle they may not want to have any options to vote on. They don ' t care. They just say no. I don ' t know. As I say, I 'm guessing. Primarily, those who vote yes will be the ones voting on the alternatives plus some of those who vote no. The major problem that I see with this proposal is the possibility that--the same one that I put out earlier-- that you may not have a majority of either of the options because of the number of people who will not be voting on the options. I may be shaking skeletons in the closet when I say that, but if you have a majority voting yes for a change in the first part. Let ' s say, 51 out of 100 voting yes , we favor a change and you don ' t have a majority of 51 or more on any of the options, what do we have left? They have favored a change and yet there is no majority on any option. The answer that some people have given me is that, well , if you look at the options as a separate amendment that will solve the problem. I 'm not sure that the options would be considered a separate amendment. That ' s the intellectual problem that I have. I think that the options , in my opinion,, the options cannot be considered part of a separate amendment. They are part of one amendment , as far as I can see. So it will still have to be by majority vote. You cannot say that you don ' t need the majority of 51 on the alternatives. I think you still have to have a majority of the total votes cast. So if you have a majority say yes , I favor a change to Section 3-2, but no majority down below, you have, in 'effect, voted out the present system and yet not voted in any option. It ' s a most embarrassing situation for the commission, I think. -10-