A mock referendum by senior-high schools in Hsinchu City showed that students overwhelmingly support the hypothetical merger of Hsinchu city and county. The mock referendum was organized by the student unions at the Hsinchu Girls’ Senior High School and the Hsinchu Senior High School. On Friday, the student unions said that 466 students, or 12.34 percent of those enrolled in the two schools, voted. The ballot asked the students to vote on whether to merge Hsinchu city and county, add Miaoli County to the hypothetical merger, resume construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) and ban