Read an election result
Read for meaning first. Select a highlighted word if you want a closer look.
A legislative committee in the class's invented city considered a rule requiring public notice before a neighborhood garden could be closed. A bipartisan working group, with members from the city's two political parties, drafted the notice requirement together. The garden proposal won by a landslide in the simulated election, receiving eighty of the one hundred votes cast. Students still had to explain how the requirement would work, since a large majority did not settle every detail of the wording.
The legislative discussion resumed when one student noticed that the draft did not say where notices would appear. The bipartisan group agreed to add the library and the garden entrance as clearly named locations. Although the earlier landslide showed strong support for the proposal, several supporters preferred different notice periods. The class compared those suggestions separately and kept a record of its reasons, treating the election result as a decision to proceed rather than agreement on every possible detail.
Before you move on
Look away from the passage. Can you explain each focus word in your own words?
Original fictional passages for vocabulary practice.