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Alaska voters shoot down predator control initiative

A ballot initiative that would end the state`s predator control program as now conducted was failing at the polls Tuesday. With 70 percent of the votes counted, the measure was lagging with more than 55 percent of voters saying no.

Read About It: News-Miner

Posted: 8/27/2008 10:01:48 AM

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