Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jarvis in 1978, has spread through the air conditioning systems of corporation executive suites in the years since. Voters in 17 states will decide tax cut referendums in tomorrow's election, but nowhere are the proposed gashes as deep in Massachusetts, where Proposition 2 1/2, Question 2 on the ballot, has become the Bay State's hottest political issue...
...Barnett and Foglietta are taking no chances. Campaign commercials open with a newspaper clipping of Myers' explusion, then switch to a picture of a ballot. The camera moves down the Democratic ticket, then pans to the right and Foglietta's spot on the independent column--"just to make sure people know," Barnett says...
UPSET BY RISING taxes and angered by the inefficiency of state government. Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question Two on next Tuesday's ballot, a taxcutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
...cutting referendum, Question 2 on Tuesday's ballot, would mean the layoff of one-third of the city's police force in its first year, as well as sharp reductions in levels of other city services, Sullivan told the council, meeting in special session to dramatize what the referendum would mean to local government...
...Massachusetts tax experts yesterday criticized Proposition 2 1/2, a property-tax relief proposal on the November 4 ballot, as an ineffective and disadvantageous way to reform the tax system...