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Suffolk Superior Court Judge Hiller Zobel issued a temporary restraining order blocking the enactment of five ballot measures approved earlier this month--including the question that banned rent control...
...ruling, Zobel said the Secretary of State's office might not have provided voters with enough information on the ballot questions...
Because this year's ballot had nine complex questions. Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly decided there was not adequate space to print explanations of the questions on the ballot. Installed, his office mailed pamphlets explaining the measures to voters and placed descriptions of the question in all polling places across the state...
...Governor's Council had planned to certify the results of the ballot questions at a meeting today...
Zobel's ruling targeted only the five ballot questions with the closest results, including Question 9, whose passage was supposed to end rent control in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline on January...