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...think it's not appropriate to look at the questions individually," said Ruth A. Bourquin, one of two attorneys representing the plaintiffs challenging the referendums. "All the citizens and voters are irreparably harmed if laws that were inappropriately voted on take effect...
...Some voters were literally trapped in the voting booths, since they had already closed the curtain, and were forced to vote on questions about which they were confused and on which they had no substantive information in front of them," Ruth A. Bourquin and Burton A. Nadler, the plaintiffs' attorneys, wrote in a memo to Judge Hiller B. Zobel...
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...
...Bourquin interpreted Armstrong's ruling in a different light. She said both Zobel and Armstrong had recognized the legitimacy of their constitutional challenge...
...addition to the constitutional challenge, Bourquin has filed affidavits charging that numerous voters did not receive the correct paper summaries of the ballot initiatives...