Word: balloters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cambridge rent control referendum campaign suffered an all-but-fatal blow yesterday afternoon. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Henry Leen ruled that a rent control referendum cannot appear on the City's November 4 election ballot...
...candidate received at least 40% of the vote, the top two aspirants would meet in a run-off election. The plan would eliminate the most glaring inequity of the existing method, under which a candidate could carry the most populous state in the union by only one ballot yet thereby claim all its electoral votes...
...voter submitted a ballot ignoring Harvard. Dartmouth, and Yale. His points went instead to three of the following: Central Connecticut, American International. Bridgeport, Bates, Amherst, and Brown...
Cronin, whose decision that the rent control bill was illegal prompted the Election Commission to refuse it a place on the ballot, told the court that the bill as written is not only "illegal and unconstitutional, but totally unrelated to the problem in Cambridge." He said that the bill violates section 89 of the Massachuserts Constitution which states that no community may enact legislation providing for shelter unless the Massachusetts General Court declares a state of emergency...
peated Rosenberg's arguments. He cited the Massachusetts statute on referenda which states that once all legal requirements have been met "the referendum shall go on the ballot." He pointed out that the statute makes no reference to the legality of the bill itself...