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...petition for rent control in Cambridge has, by official count, more than enough signatures to get onto the City's November 4 ballot...
...voters (about 12 per cent of the City's registered voters) signed the petition, according to the City's official signature count completed last weekend. The petition, sponsored by the Cambridge Rent Control Referendum, needed only 3290 signatures (eight per cent of the voters) to get on the ballot...
...Cambridge Rent Control Referendum is virtually certain to have enough valid signatures to get its petition for rent control onto Cambridge's November 4 ballot...
Approximately 3300 valid signatures (eight per cent of 'Cambridge's registered voters) are needed to put the petition on the ballot. When the 1776 petition sheets were submitted to the City Clerk last Monday, organizers of the referendum estimated that they bore the signatures of 9000 voters. By state law, each signer's name and address must be just as it appears on the voting lists, and it was anticipated that some of the 9000 signatures would be thrown out for failing to meet this requirement...
...rent control bill does get onto the November ballot, it must then leap two hurdles in order to become law: a simple majority of those voting on the bill must vote in favor of it, and one-third of all registered voters in Cambridge must vote for the bill...