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Voters Handily Pass Proposition 2 1/2

Opponents to Fight

The coalition of opponents to Proposition 2 1/2 will not disband, but will continue to try to get the legislature to reform the measure, to avoid cuts in local services, and to increase other taxes, such as the sales tax, Robert Sperber, superintendent of schools in Brookline, said last night.

Hiatt said he expects attempts to modify the proposition. "If they are in the intersts of the bill, I'm sure a compromise can be worked out, but if they are attempts to frustrate its basic intent, the legislature will have to reckon with us and the voters," he said.

Among the other propositions, Question 1 passed easily. That amendment will prohibit discrimination against handicapped people.

Question 3, which would have limited local property taxes and state taxes to the growth in personal income statewide and would have transferred more of the burden of education to the state, was defeated. Proponents of Proposition 2 1/2 had urged this question's defeat to avoid conflicts between the two.

Voters overwhelmingly rejected Question 4, which would have approved the pay raises the leglislature granted itself last Halloween. But they passed Question 5, which will limit the legislature's ability to pass laws affecting wages and other benefits of municipal employees.

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Voters rejected Question 6, which would have allowed the legislature to establish emergency preambles to bills by voice vote instead of roll call

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