JANUARY 2000 CITIZENS' POLL RESULTS

I want to again thank the hundreds of participants in the poll; including the 395+ persons responding from the Martinsburg, Falling Waters, and Eastern Panhandle area who were tallied in the overall percentage results.

YES NO DO YOU FAVOR?
97% 3% 1. Keeping bars and strip joints 1000 feet from schools and churches?
85% 15% 2. Allowing a county referendum on the hours that bars and strip joints close?
95% 5% 3. Jail time (as opposed to home confinement) for three-time DUI offenders or DUI offenders who run from the police and resist arrest?
57% 43% 4. Allowing crossbow use for documented disabled hunters? (Current law prohibits crossbow use in WV.)
6% 94% 5. Allowing homosexual marriages in West Virginia?
87% 13% 6. Going to an English system to curb lawsuits whereby the loser pays court costs?
18% 82% 7. Appointment of judges rather than electing them?
89% 11% 8. A law requiring slower traffic to travel in the right lane on four-lane highways except when passing?
81% 19% 9. Prohibiting children from riding in the back of pick-up trucks?
77% 23% 10. Right to Work (ending required union membership at any workplace in this state)?
59% 41% 11. Increasing the number of Berkeley County Commissioners from three to five?
97% 3% 12. Using inmates at the regional jail to pick up trash along the highway?
98% 2% 13. Automatic electronic recording of legislators' votes on bills in the WV House of Delegates? (Current practice is unrecorded voice voting except by specific legislative request.)
93% 7% 14. Eliminating the Legislative Budget Digest whereby the legislative leadership funds "pet projects" using taxpayers dollars?
97% 3% 15. Allowing citizens to petition for the placement of issues on the ballot?
89% 11% 16. Reinstating the death penalty for first degree murder?

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