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| ====== The ballot initiative that we choose each year involves collecting signatures (petitioning) to get our questions on the ballot. ====== | ====== The ballot initiative that we choose each year involves collecting signatures (petitioning) to get our questions on the ballot. ====== | ||
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| Unlike many advocacy groups, our ballot initiatives use the state's legally binding petition process, which gathers signatures only from registered voters. | Unlike many advocacy groups, our ballot initiatives use the state's legally binding petition process, which gathers signatures only from registered voters. | ||
| - | 2018 petitioning is over now. Soon we will discuss which petition to gather signatures for in 2019 to help make law in order to reduce the influence of money in Massachusetts elections. | + | **<font 28px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>The 2020 petitioning season has begun!</font>** |
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| + | [[https://www.mass.gov/info-details/ballot-initiatives-filed-for-the-2022-biennial-statewide-election-proposed-laws-and#20-01-passmass-amendment-|We have filed our petition with the state]] | ||
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| + | In prior years, the state's Attorney General has declined to "certify" our petition claiming that "Corporations Are People"! She didn't say that whe she was running for office! But nonetheless… Click here for her [[http://passmass.server278.com/?ns=:&image=:19-07_declination_letter.pdf&do=media&tab_files=files&tab_details=view|"declination letter"]] informing us of her refusal to certify our petition as "legal". [[http://passmass.server278.com/?ns=:&image=:2020_declination_letter_rebutal.pdf&do=media&tab_files=files&tab_details=view|And click here for our response]]. | ||
| [[:petitioning_in-depth_look|Click here for more about how petitioning works.]] | [[:petitioning_in-depth_look|Click here for more about how petitioning works.]] | ||
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