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introduction
of
direct
therefore,
all
elections
in
1988.
It will be seen,
Territory-wide
surveys show
outweigh
those who oppose
the
validly-conducted
that those who support clearly
introduction of direct elections in 1988.
I now turn to the written submissions; and I propose
to divide them into three catagories :
(i) written submissions in printed
standard
forms
with no options being given to
the respondents;
(ii)
written
submissions
in
printed standard forms
with options given to the respondents;
(iii) individual hand-written submissions.
In
relation
to
(i).
unrealistic to distinguish this
I suggest
type of submissions
that
it will be
from
the
submissions
collected
in
campaigns. signature
Indeed,
according to experts, there is no
reason to
differentiate one
the
Therefore, other.
from from the signature campaigns (after deducting 9,485
the
223,886 signatures collected
names which
were
found to be
repetitive)
should be treated as individual
submissions just like the other 73,767 individuals who
written
submissions
by
way
of
had made
printed standard forms without
any options being given
to
the
respondents.
in Viewed
that
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