Word: ballots
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...disputes that Article 48 of the Massachusetts Constitution requires that ballot question summaries be printed on the ballot...
What is at issue is whether the August law--Chapter 129--violates the constitution, and exactly what constitutes a ballot...
...question is, 'What is a ballot per se?'" state Rep. John E. McDonough (D-Jamaica Plain) said in an interview last Friday. "This is new legal terrain, not just for Massachusetts but, as far as we know, for any state...
...statute would define something handed to you as a ballot," McDonough said, offering his interpretation of the issue...
Zobel agreed. After hearing oral arguments from Bourquin, Nadler and Assistant Attorney General Peter Sacks--who is representing Connolly--the judge granted a 10-day restraining order November 29, barring certification of five of the nine ballot questions...