Word: ballot
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Sacks said the introduction of voting machines in the early 1940s prompted a 1941 act that defined "ballot" to include the strip of paper above the levers in a voting booth...
...Printed material presented to the voter during the voting process was deemed part of the 'ballot,' even if the voter did not mark his or her choices on that printed material," Harshbarger wrote in a 22-page memo accompanying the state's appeal...
...said the 1941 case only allowed for two separate votes: one for referenda, one for public officials. "If you can't fit these summaries on the voting machine, then have a separate ballot," she said...
Ultimately, the plaintiffs are seeking invalidation of the five referenda. "We want the questions to go on the ballot in the form that the constitution provides," Bourquin said...
...Never has the electorate in Massachusetts gone to the polls and been so well-informed and well-educated," Connolly said. "There were fewer blanks on the ballot questions than there had been at any time in the past...