Word: balloting
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...city is also deeply divided over a binding ballot referendum that would drastically reform the city's rent control laws...
...ballot question, known as Proposition 1-2-3, would allow tenants who have lived in rentcontrolled apartments for more than two years to buy them as condominiums--thus reducing the city's stock of affordable housing. Sponsors of 1-2-3 argue that the referendum would benefit the city by allowing more city residents to own their own homes, but opponents charge that such a change would deal a death-blow to the rent-control system...
Williams has boosted his ratings in the past year with heavy criticism of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and other Democratic leaders for the way they handled the state budget crisis. He said his support for the ballot proposal was a natural extension of his battle against "the centers of power" in Massachusetts...
Malone and his backers will first have to raise 51,000 signatures. Then their proposal would require the approval of one-fourth of the Massachusetts House and Senate in two separate constitutional conventions. It would then need majority support on a statewide ballot and could be placed before the voters no sooner than the 1992 election...
Political candidates can receive no more than $1000 from any one donor but there is no such limit on contributions to petition drives for ballot questions. Asked if his support for the two-term limit would enable him to receive large contributions from supporters via the fund supporting the ballot drive, Malone said he would not abuse the system...