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  • Opinion - A simple majority isn't so simple

    02/25/2005 6:09:31 AM PST · by Josef1235 · 5 replies · 429+ views
    The Columbian ^ | 24 February 2005 | Elizabeth Hovde
    The "supermajority" issue is hardly the no-brainer some people make it out to be. So be wary of cheering along the current effort in Olympia to do away with the decades-old, constitutional voting provision for school levies. The no-brainer crowd crows that it is undemocratic to require a 60-percent passage rate for school money measures when politicians typically are elected to office with just more than 50 percent of the vote. And while it sounds well and good to say that the majority should always rule in any given election, the reality is, the majority rarely rules, given low voter...