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November 23, 2009, 10:38 PM ET
U. of North Texas Students Vote Against Same-Sex Homecoming Court
The homecoming king and queen at the University of North Texas will remain male and female, students decided in an online referendum last week, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported. A proposal to allow a same-sex couple to run for the homecoming court in 2010 drew student voters in record numbers, and they defeated the proposal by a wide margin, 58 percent to 42 percent. The soonest the issue could come up again would be for the 2011 homecoming, the student-government president told the newspaper.
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1. 22048304 - November 24, 2009 at 08:59 am
Saw this and thought you might find this interesting...if not disheartening.
2. swish - November 24, 2009 at 10:45 am
22048304, I know you meant to e-mail somebody rather than comment (I wonder why that keeps happening!).
But remember -- it's *Texas*. And 42 percent *favored* the gay couples. That's not so disheartening, is it? Now if, say, Amherst College had a vote like that, I'd be pretty disappointed.
3. clrelay - November 24, 2009 at 11:56 am
"Online referendum"? There are three alternatives:
1. It's a normal web poll (i.e. "vote early and often"), in which case the results aren't very representative of actual opinion, or
2. It's a normal student-id-based query (i.e. vote-collecting system can associate the student with the vote), in which case it might not be perceived as a secret ballot and students may have voted differently than they would in a secret ballot, or
3. They used some fancy cryptosystem to ensure that each eligible voter only voted once but eliminates the possibility of associating student with vote.
Does anyone know which alternative is the actual state of affairs?
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