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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>
</body></article>
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