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...Mass. Governor Deval Patrick to end family homelessness and cut the state’s costs by using a preventive approach. But councillors said they thought the problem would only get worse in the near future, citing the state’s budgetary woes and Question 1, a ballot initiative that could abolish the income tax in Massachusetts, which voters will decide on this Election Day. “With the social service cuts we’re seeing coming out of the Patrick administration, we’re going to see people losing services and becoming homeless...
...with the Imagine Election site, voters won’t need to know their district to see which candidates they can call their own.One user, Brian M. McCarthy, whose son is a fellow MBA student with Nemeth, said the site was a straightforward way to review ballot questions and research information about candidates.“I get the mailing from the Secretary of State on the ballot questions, but I very seldom go through and read the pros and cons of every issue,” he said. “With this site, I’m able...
Luck may have finally run out for Wonderland Greyhound Park, located near the final stop on the Blue Line, if a ballot question to ban dog racing in Massachusetts passes this November. The proposal, sponsored by The Committee to Protect Dogs and driven largely by concerns about animal mistreatment, represents a rehash of a ballot question from the 2000 elections that sought to ban dog racing in the state. That initiative failed by a 51 to 49 percent margin. A poll of likely voters conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling firm, indicated that 50 percent...
...marriage in California is the costliest campaign about a social issue in U.S. history. Spending by both sides has topped $50 million, and the figure is growing. Most of those dollars have poured in since May, when the California Supreme Court turned what had been a slow-moving ballot initiative into a white-hot controversy by issuing the most sweeping declaration of fundamental gay rights to be found in U.S. law. Not only must gays be allowed to marry, the Republican-dominated court said, but it also flatly outlawed nearly any kind of discrimination against them...
...Nadine Hamby, a police spokeswoman. Lawmakers apparently didn't think drunken voting would be a problem either, figuring they addressed it by restricting Election Day liquor sales until after the polls close. They hadn't anticipated what early voters might do. Because the woman passed out before inserting her ballot into an electronic tabulator, her vote will be hand-counted. Her political affiliation is not known...