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BOSTON--Frustrating the state's efforts to certify five ballot questions from the November election, an appeals court judge yesterday delayed his ruling on whether to uphold a restraining order blocking enactment of the state referenda results...
...last month's election, state voters approved Question 9, the ballot initiative to repeal rent control effective January 1. But Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the three communities with rent control--have petitioned Beacon Hill to allow a gradual phasing out of the program...
...There's been a handful of problems," he said. "Those problems are more related to confusion--people coming in and realizing that the state ballot summaries would not be on the ballot...
Schloming said most voters were well informed and prepared for the ballot, which had no summary or title for each question...
Under state law, ballot questions presented unconstitutionally must undergo a revote at the next election...