But something else appears to be at work in the wordy subtitle of Defoe's most celebrated work of fiction, which is also one of the first English novels.

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The problem: an 11-page ballot filled with wordy state and local issues on everything from schoolroom class size to whether pregnant pigs can be confined.

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