Word: ballots
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...industrial state, and it is the only one besides Illinois without mail-in voter registration. The issue has come before the legislature often since 1970 and has been shot down every time. Now, the issue will be put before the people as Question Number Six on the ballot this November...
...Massachusetts senators, the mayor of Boston and a broad coalition of political groups. Yet mail-in has failed in the past due to the intransigence of officials and the indifference of the voting public. Only 2 percent of the electorate know that the issue will be on the November ballot, according to the latest Globe poll...
...Crimson article, Pakaluk poses as a liberal, mouthing the anti-abortion lobby's line that Proposition 1, on the Massachusetts ballot November 4, is "only a tax issue"--though it is really a sweeping attack on abortion rights for everyone, rich and poor. The Veritas Reconsidered essay, however, reveals a radically conservative political and social agenda...
Laura Barrett, speaking for the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Campaign, another ad hoc coalition, said it is illegal in Massachusetts to allocate funds by ballot, and that the measure's requirements are meant to spur the DEQE to action. "We went to the ballot process because we have been going to the legislature for the past three years [without success]," she said...
Question 6, on voter registration by mail, has met little opposition, but according to the Boston Globe's recent poll, only 2 percent of Massachusetts voters knew the question was on the ballot...