Complex sentence: At the request of Senators Jack Danforth and Tom Eagleton, Missouri Governor Kit Bond allowed a non-binding referendum to be put on ballots in twelve surrounding counties, and on August 8,1978, sixty-four percent of the voters rejected the dam proposal.
Split into simpler sentences: At the request of Senators Jack Danforth and Tom Eagleton, Missouri Governor Kit Bond allowed a non-binding referendum to be put on ballots in twelve surrounding counties. On August 8,1978,64 percent of the voters rejected the dam proposal.