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Election Commission officials said yesterday that only 2361 of the petition's 8756 signatures were valid. This left it far short of the 3624 valid signatures needed to put it on the City's November 7 ballot...
...Rosenberg, attorney for Vote on Vietnam, said that he would advise the group against contesting the count. According to Rosenberg, a reversal of the commission's findings would require a complete recount with a district judge overseeing the Election Commission's work. He commented that obtaining the additional 1300 valid signatures would be "almost too painful to contemplate...
...Court judge ruled Monday--contrary to City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden's opinion--that there was nothing illegal about an initiative petition bearing a peace resolution. The City Election Commission determined last Friday that the peace petition filed by the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam bore the number of valid signatures required to put it on the ballot...
...CNCV filed its petitions with the Cambridge City Clerk on Sept. 12, and its struggle with City Hall began immediately. The law gives the Election Commissioners 5 days from the date a petition is filed to determine whether it carries enough valid signatures. Instead of checking the signatures, the Election Commissioners asked City Solicitor Trodden for an opinion on the petition's legality. Trodden wrote them, "There is no need to further process this socalled Initiative Petition." It was illegal, he said...
...enough signatures are valid, the City must immediately print ballots for the resolutions, without waiting for the city to complete appeals or for City Council action on a possible resolution...