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Paragraph 74
 

To date, most of the states that have replied to the questionnaire have not adopted any rule imposing compliance with the principle of unity of content. This does apply however in BulgariaItalyPortugal, Switzerland and Hungary, where freedom to vote is considered to have been violated if parts of a question are contradictory, if their relationship with one another is not clear and if they do not flow from one another or are not linked by their content. Less explicitly, this principle is also applied in ArmeniaAustria and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. In the Netherlands, this question does not really arise since only an entire law can be put to the popular vote under the temporary law.