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Originally Posted by rcentros
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?
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Again and for the nth time in this thread no one is saying this isn’t how democracy works.
However this recent vote is hardly an indicator of a massive support for this especially when you consider that earlier vote you like mentioning which had a bigger majority. Put simply yes the vote passed but that passing should not be taken as an indication that the thing voted on is a signpost to follow for the future as some would seem to believe.