Word: ballot
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Among the five was Question 9, the ballot initiative to eliminate rent control in Boston, Brookline and Cambridge, effective January...
...state appealed Zobel's restraining order. According to Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64, the use of the modern voting booth prompted the passage of an act in 1941. That act, Harshbarger argued, defined the strips of paper above the levers in a voting booth as another type of "ballot...
...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," the attorney general wrote in a memo to the Suffolk County Appeals Court...
...Legislature in Chapter 129 defined 'ballot' so as to include the separate summary sheets prepared by the Secretary [of State]," Harshbarger added...
...said the alternative to paper summaries were either "teeny-tiny type" on the voting booth ballot, or a completely separate vote for the referenda on a paper ballot...