Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have an enormous number of things on the ballot, many of which are quite intricate. Theoretically, the presidents could instruct their delegates, but as a practical mater, that does not open not happen, "he added...
...proposed referendum to ban the research and production of nuclear weapons in Cambridge has apparently gotten around the major legal roadblock keeping it off the November ballot, as the State Ethics Commission has effectively allowed the Cambridge City Council to place the question before the voters...
...binding initiative campaign, which received the requisite number of certified signatures, was stalled at the August 8 city council meeting when the councilors failed. On a 4-4-1 vote, to put the Nuclear Free Cambridge question on the ballot. The one abstention was Councilor David Sullivan, who had publicly supported the referendum but could not vote on it because his position with the Secretary of State's office election commission placed him in a conflict of interest...
Before the commission ruling, the fate of the referendum lay solely in the hands of the Supreme Judicial Court. After the original council vote, Nuclear free Cambridge proponents used the legislators, arguing that state law only gave them ministerial duty to place the question on the ballot, not the discretion to keep...
...court had the argument Tuesday, and had planned to rule on the issue soon. But all parties involved agreed yesterday that if the council were to vote to place the referendum on the ballot, the court case would be moot...