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About 400 ballot boxes are in Windsor-Essex.<\/p>\n<p>The move to stop cuts to community hospitals comes as dozens of nurses were let go at Windsor Regional Hospital. The layoffs were blamed on a lack of funding. The ballots will go to Queen&#8217;s Park in hopes of sending a message to the Liberal government to restore hospital funding.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Chair of the Windsor-Essex Health Coalition, Ken Lewenza Jr., is hoping that at least 30,000 people vote.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/windsor.ctvnews.ca\/referendum-underway-on-future-of-health-care-1.2921428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 28, 2016) By: CTV Windsor It&#8217;s voting day across Ontario on the future of health care. An unofficial provincewide referendum is underway. Activists are asking people to vote in the Stop Hospital Cuts Now Referendum. 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