North v. Platte County’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““The evil of a proposition in the alternative form is, that voters who may be hostile to one of the roads named, and who would vote against aid to such road, may be induced by reason of the supposed probability of the railroad in which he is in favor being the successful line, to vote in its favor, and thus the proposition in that form may be adopted by the requisite majority, when, had propositions been submitted separately, both would have failed. In other words, electors may be induced to vote for the proposition by exciting false' hopes as to the road that will be constructed, and thus carry the proposition by the necessary majority.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Leavenworth v. Wilson