Electoral board rules against referendum movement
By Paul Wood
Friday December 14, 2007
URBANA – The city's electoral board ruled unanimously Thursday that a shortage of signatures was "a fatal flaw" sufficient to keep an instant runoff referendum off the ballot on Feb. 5.
Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing said the shortage of signatures – about half of what was required – made two other objections, one about vagueness of wording and the other a constitutional question, moot.
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