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...included on the election day ballot, a proposal must acquire 200 signatures within the local voting district. Together, the organizations were able to raise enough signatures to have the initiative on the ballot of 36 districts in Massachusetts. In Cambridge, seven of the 33 precincts will be able to vote...
...goal is to create a dialogue about the war, to encourage a discussion on something we are just kind of letting go on without confronting it,” Shannon said. “Now that it is on the ballot it means that people will hopefully be interested...
Erik F. Swabb, a first-year student at Harvard Law School and a member of the Marine Corps who fought in Iraq between September 2004 and March 2005, said that, rather than hosting local public referendums such as the ballot initiative, it would be more fruitful to contact representatives...
...founder and Executive Director of Vets for Freedom Wade Zirkle, who is also a veteran of the Iraq war, said that the ballot initiative is not representative of the mainstream U.S. public opinion but of the “fringes of American politics...
However, Winters stressed that the ballot initiative serves mostly as a “feel-good measure” which would have “virtually no effect” on state or national politics...