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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Except not all and a relatively slim majority want it. Stop pretending like this was a 80/20 or even 70/30 split. The 45% who voted to keep the library are just as much the bosses as the 55% who voted against and 10% is a slim margin to hang a hat on any sort of mandate of the people.
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Unfortunately (or fortunately) the majority gets to decide whether the library is funded by their tax dollars. And a 56% to 44% margin is not that small of a majority — 12 percentage points. And this was the second vote this year, they also attempted to pass the "millage" during the primary election, where it failed by (I believe) 66% to 34%. So even though they had a chance to remake their case, it still failed.
Do you think the minority should get their way in this case?