Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petition's original sponsors, Dennis DeCoste, said after the meeting that Vote on Vietnam had never thought the Council would put the petition on the ballot. "We just wanted to put pressure on the Council, to expose their position on this issue," he said...
Some 75 members of Cambridge Vote on Vietnam packed the Council chambers to demand that the City put a petition opposing the Vietnam war onto the November 7 ballot. Two weeks ago, Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden disqualified two such petitions on grounds that the issue was irrelevant to City business...
...members of Vote on Vietnam spoke before the Council last night, arguing that "it is unfair to the people of Cambridge that the City is maneuvering to keep this off the ballot." At one point, Dennis DeCoste reminded the Council that "over 8000 people signed the petition--twice the number needed to elect any one of you to the Council...
There is 'still a chance," Walzer said, that the resolution calling for U.S. with-drawal from Vietnam will make the Nov. 7 ballot, depending on how quickly the courts rule on the legality of the petition...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, a local peace group, will seek a special election if its 'dove' resolution does not make the ballot in the Nov. 7 city election...