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The table makes clear the 62% is a subset of voters, the sentence itself however does not. I'm not familiar with RTE so whether there's bias or shoddy journalism involved I really can't say. What I can say is that their article is disingenuous. It ignores all those who abstained. The majority of
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Posting this before a revert war starts. 62.07% of the 60.52% (registered) voters that voted in the referendum chose Yes. For the article to claim that 62.07% of voters said yes is a blatant falsehood. I've corrected the claim to correctly reflect the proportion of voters that actually voted in
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