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...same time, crosses (plurality voting) were used for the referenda or special balloting. The result was confusion, misunderstanding, mistakes, and thousands of invalid and blank ballots which went into the waste basket, to say nothing of the limited enfranchisement of the citizen, or the frustration of his right to register a vote for 9 councillors and 6 school committeemen...
...students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students' right to the initiative because it feared that any "crackpot" proposal could muster 200 signatures and that it would be swarmed under with unreasonable requests for referenda. It argued that the council was theoretically a responsible group and could exercise "common sense" on matters of public debate. This point of view, many observers felt, developed from a fear of future "abolish the council" drives similar to the one that took place last spring. After three days and the only...
...important referenda, Massachusetts voted yesterday for increased old-age assistance benefits, providing 75 dollars a month to needy persons over...
Since many of the referenda are very controversial, politicians expect an unusually large off-year vote. While a big vote normally helps the Democratic party, that may not be the case this year. Some of the most important questions affect residents of non-urban areas which are heavily Republican...
...referenda that have caused the biggest arguments are three and four. The former would lower the age at which citizens become eligible for old-age pensions from 65 to 63, and raise the monthly allowance from an average of $40 to a minimum of $75; the latter would establish a state-run lottery. The legislature voted down the lottery proposal in 1935, but in 1940 the people in 30 of the state's 40 senatorial districts voted to advise their senators to support it if it were again brought up. This year, faced with an issue that can be debated...