Word: ballots
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...attorneys representing tenant advocates and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union persuaded Zobel that Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly, who conducted the referendum, violated Article 48 of the state constitution by not printing summaries of the proposed laws on the ballot...
...passed by the state legislature in September permitted Connolly to provide printed summaries of the ballot questions at polling sites across the state...
Zobel agreed. "I take the constitutional provision to require that except as authorized in the Constitution itself, the fair and concise summary must be printed on the ballot," the judge wrote in his three-page ruling...
...ballot questions should be on the ballot, pure and simple," she said. "If there are a lot of them, it's a little more work figuring out how to do it, but that's no excuse for not doing...
...other alternative other than voting again with the questions on the ballot," said the 43-year-old employee of the Boston University School of Public Health...