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Article: Voters soundly reject the need for a Con Con
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- November 4, 1998
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Thousands of Hawaii voters changed their minds since 1996 about the need for a citizens' convention to amend or revise the state Constitution.
A Constitutional Convention was rejected by nearly two out of three voters yesterday.
Two years ago, the idea was approved by 163,869 people and won by a 3,700-vote margin, only to be scuttled by the Hawaii Supreme Court, which changed previous practice by ruling that blank ballots count as "no" votes.
This time around, both supporters and Con Con critics said voters were turned off by broad-based opposition -- from the State Federation of Labor, the League of Women Voters, the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs -- and by ...