Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report is also linked to Question Four on the November ballot, which would shut down both of the state's nuclear power plants and is specifically aimed against Pilgrim...
...next Cambridge municipal election remains more than a year away, but realtor Fred Meyer and a group of small landlords are already working to put a question on the 1989 ballot that would weaken the city's 18-year-old rent control...
...proposition first gained exposure--and met strong opposition--last fall, when it failed to snag a place on the 1987 ballot because the realtor and his allies fell just short of collecting the 3500 necessary petition signatures...
...Small Property Owners' Association (SPOA) is determined to make the 1989 ballot. Meyer says the group, founded 10 months ago by proponents of Proposition 1-2-3, is already nearing the 3500-signature mark. Canvassers--some of them paid--collected signatures at the polls during the September primary and are likely to work through the November general election...
...members have said Meyer's canvassers misrepresented 1-2-3 to gain support from Cambridge residents. "Volunteers who solicited signatures [to get 1-2-3 on the ballot] at the September polls presented the proposition as an affordable housing initiative," said Desch...