Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge peace groups have gone to court to force anti-war proposals onto the City's November 7 ballot...
Vote on Vietnam and The Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam are asking the Middlesex Superior Court to overrule the City Solicitor's decision that the issue is irrelevant to the City and cannot be placed on the ballot...
...submitted differently-worded petitions calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. Each petition carried over 7000 signatures. Under Massachusetts statutes, initiative petitions signed by eight per-cent of a city's voters (3600 signatures for Cambridge) must be adopted by the City Council or placed on the ballot...
...September 18, Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden advised the Cambridge Election Commission to bar the petitions from the ballot, deeming them beyond the legal scope of action of the city...
...California Supreme Court last week similarly ordered such an anti-war proposal onto the San Francisco ballot on the basis of similar arguments...