Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bold bid to personalize the crusade has caused a painful split among black leaders. Many supporters, Mayor Hatcher being the foremost, have been caught up in the enthusiasm. "For years blacks were told to use the ballot box," he says. "We've finally become convinced. Not only can we use it, but we know how to play the game. It's absolutely appalling to me that people now would say to us, 'Don't do it.' " Agrees T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Miami: "The timing is absolutely correct. We have...
...state ballot law commission ruled Tuesday that it did not have the jurisdiction to rule on objections to the referendum raised by employees at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, a firm that would be severely affected by the measure. Draper employees had challenged the validity of some of the petition signatures supporting the measure...
...Monday night, the council failed to pass a motion that would place the binding Nuclear Free Cambridge question on the November ballot. The two sides differ on whether the council actually has the power to keep an initiative off the ballot, and the likely outcome, some observers say, is that the proponents will have to sue the council to keep the referendum alive...
Carrol, cutting earlier court cases, said that municipal bodies have the power on keep initiatives off the ballot if they consider the aim illegal of unconstitutional as many have said of the current initiative...
...recent advisory memo from the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office said that a city council cannot refuse to submit an initiative petition to the electorate if it believes the measure to be unconstitutional. "The note added that the council's duty to place something on its ballot is a ministerial one, with no discretion...