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...Jillson and the rent control opponents maintain that 831 signatures were improperly disqualified. These were the signatures of voters who changed addresses or signed with their nicknames...
...group of rent control advocates led by Donald Veach, treasurer of the Cambridge-based Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant Protections, has also sued the secretary of state in an effort to ensure the issue does not hit the state ballot...
...addition, 334 signatures appeared on petitions that did not contain the required authorization of registrars in the cities in which they were collected. Rent control opponents argue that these should be counted...
Burton A. Nadler, an attorney for the rent control advocates, said the judge's ruling on the 334 signatures could be grounds for appeal. But the lawyer also said his opponents might be entitled to an appeal on Sossman's decision to uphold the limits of signatures per county...
...while rent control opponents attempt to find the 400 valid signatures that will out a referendum on the ballot, rent control advocates are also playing a numbers game. They maintain, in fact, that the secretary of state's count is too high to begin with...