Referendum Recall Fail to Get the Votes

Referendum Recall Fail to Get the Votes

Referendum, a procedure that would allow voters to reject laws passfed by the Legislature, and recall. by which elected officials can be ousted before their terms expire, failed to get enough votes yesterday to clear a Constitutional Convention committee. Each idea won a majority vote of the delegates present at the meeting of the committee, on Bill of Rights, Suffrage and Elections, but neither received 16 votes, which the 30-member committee requires for a proposal to be approved. Though initiative, referendum and recall are frequently mentioned together. it is initiative, in the indirect form, that is given the best chance of passing the convention. About 45 of the convention’s 102 delegates appear to support the change at the moment.

Honolulu Star Bulletin

8/31/1978

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