Baltimore almost always approves ballot questions. Can City Hall win this time?

If history is any indicator, the fate of six members on the Baltimore City Council might as well be written in stone. Voters filling out ballots this year are being asked whether to cut the City Council from 14 districts down to eight, eliminating nearly half of jobs on the legislative panel. Baltimore voters tend to approve ballot questions almost automatically — only one in the last 25 years has failed.