The real story about the vote on 1974 Proposition 17 to save the Stanislaus River

Details of what really happened with the voting in November 1974 on Proposition 17, the Stanislaus River Initiative – survey polling by a firm showed that a clear majority of voters favored stopping the flooding of the Stanislaus River by New Melones Dam (the 1974 election was characterized by a hugely misleading campaign by the pro-dam forces). This account if from Tim Palmer’s book on the Stanislaus.