Word: balloting
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...local elections show mixed and in some ways contradictory tendencies on the part of Massachusetts voters. While the voters--especially in Cambridge--supported individual candidates who have proven themselves as leaders on issues of social and economic importance, all but two of the binding questions on the Massachusetts ballot lost, and most lost badly...
...ONLY BRIGHT SPOT in the results of the Massachusetts ballot questions was the passage of the state Equal Rights Amendment. Its approval adds a long overdue clause to the state constitution that bars discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion or national origin. The Massachusetts success of a state ERA reverses a pattern of ERA rejection set last year and has renewed efforts to approve the national...
Buckley's assistant, Robert Deutsch, said that the appearance of the proposed handgun ban on the ballot was a good sign. "To make an issue an issue is significant. I'm confident that in the long run we'll be able to put an end to the domestic arms race," Deutsch added...
More than 80 per cent of the registered voters in Cambridge turned out at the polls this year. Precincts in which only 500 voters cast their ballot in the 1974 representative race showed increases of from 100 to 200 voters. More than 12,600 people voted in the district in all, up from...
What a stupid question. How far a drive is it, after all, to New Hampshire, where the liquor stores are open eight days a week? See you around the ballot...