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Massachusetts voters will confront taxes on cigarettes and tobacco, as well as tough new packaging requirements, when voting on four state ballot questions in next week's election...
Referendum Question #1 on the November 3 ballot proposes to add a tax of 25 cents to every cigarette package sold in Massachusetts. The revenue will be used by local government for health education...
...according to the theory, if theperpetrator identified one of the four ballots heor she had created and scattered around theoffice, the risk of identifying a ballot that hadalready been claimed would be eliminated...
Alternatively, the sources suggested, theperpetrator could have included among thescattered ballots one of the originals stolen fromthe hat--resulting in it being identified bysomeone else--and then not identify a ballot ashis...
That would account for one of the twoindividuals who told Jewett they were unable toidentify their ballots. It would also explain thefact that the extra ballot that was claimed was onthe original paper that Prabhu distributed tocommittee members before the election...