New Zealand - Thames says yes to keeping fluoride in water

Thames has voted to keep its water fluoridated.

Thames has voted to keep its water fluoridated.
Fluoridation of the Thames water supply is here to stay.

A total of 2151 votes were cast to continue fluoridation of the Thames water supply while 795 were cast to stop fluoridation.
In percentage terms, 73 per cent of the votes cast (2947) were in favour of having fluoride in Thames' water.
Thames dentist David Fornusek welcomed today's result of the Thames Coromandel District Council's Water Fluoridation Referendum.
"It demonstrates the common sense of Thames residents have and the trust they have in health.
"The result is an endorsement of the safety and health benefits of the fluoridated water supply that we've had in Thames for the last 40-plus years."
Fornusek said the right vote had been reached despite what he described as a "misleading campaign from opponents frightening and scaring the public."
"I'm pleased and relieved. It has involved a lot of effort from a large number of local people." Fornusek believed that Thames Coromandel District Council had probably bowed to the unrelenting pressure from opponents by holding the referendum.
"With the local body elections next year, other areas like Whangamata, Waihi, Paeroa and others who do not have the benefits of fluoridated water can ask their representative councils why they can't have the same advantages as Thames. Fluoridating water is not expensive."
Hours before the referendum result was released, the Making Sense of Fluoride (MSoF) group issued a statement that complaints against anti-fluoridationists' campaign signs and material had been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.
MSoF president Daniel Ryan confirmed that the authority found the anti-fluoridation material to be misleading and designed to play on consumers' fear.
"An independent agency has now confirmed that the people of Thames have been intentionally misled by fluoridation opponents using scare tactics to try to influence their vote," said Ryan.

I wonder why? Most people are persuaded against fluoridation if given the full facts from both sides of the debate on the principle alone that was it worth the risk when so many experts on both sides hold opposing views.
Either the group fighting it were not effective or how was the vote conducted.