Word: ballotting
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Three Cambridge City Councillors will ask the Council today to place an "opinion referendum" on rent control on the November 4 election ballot. The referendum would enact no law but would permit people to vote on the concept of rent control...
...action follows a court ruling last week which denied a request by the Cambridge Peace and Freedom party for a rent control referendum. The court ruled that a rent control law would be unconstitutional if passed and therefore could not be placed on the ballot. The Massachusetts State Constitution states that the legislature must give permission before a city can enact rent control...
...night that Leen had dismissed a writ of mandamus petitioned by members of the Peace and Freedom Party and the Cambridge Housing convention. The writ asked the court to overturn a ruling by the Cambridge Election Commission that the rent control bill is illegal and cannot appear on the ballot...
City Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, who favors some kind of a rent control bill for Cambridge, said last night that she and three other pro-rent councillors may make an offer to get some kind of referendum onto the ballot. She declined to elaborate, saying that she had not yet consulted the other councillors about the future of the issue...
...rent control lawyers had argued that the issue of the legality of a measure has nothing to do with whether or not it can go on the ballot. A decision on the legality of the measure can only come afterits enactment and a challenge in court. they told a Superior Court hearing on Sept...