1.   Dueling referendums will allow each side to gauge its support.

2.   The court rightly worried that such referendums might allow majority views to suppress minority views, and it asked the appeals court to examine that issue.

3.   The referendum allows voters to keep the new system by voting yes, or to return to the stricter system by voting no.

4.   Labor union leaders say the plan is unconstitutional because the referendum would allow outside parties to make decisions on the internal affairs of private organizations.

5.   The referendum will allow East Timorse to decide between independence and autonomy within Indonesia.

6.   The referendum would allow a restrictive divorce law for this predominantly Roman Catholic nation, the only European country that banned divorce in its constitution.