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- | \\ | + | ====== [2023: We are not currently engaged in a ballot initiative.] ====== |
- | ====== The ballot initiative that we choose each year involves collecting signatures (petitioning) to get our questions on the ballot. ====== | + | |
- | * Petitioning is: | + | [see historical info below] |
+ | ====== The ballot initiatives that we have engaged in involved collecting signatures (petitioning) to get questions on the ballot. ====== | ||
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+ | * **__<font 16px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Petitioning is:</font>__ ** | ||
+ | * the act of gathering signatures from voters | ||
+ | * how we get ballot questions to the voters | ||
* citizen action to make real change! | * citizen action to make real change! | ||
- | * the act of gathering signatures from voters. | + | Groups in Massachusetts can use the ballot to make law and to amend the state constitution. |
- | * how we get ballot questions to the voters. | + | Unlike many advocacy groups, our ballot initiatives have focused on using the state's legally binding petition process, and has gathered signatures only from registered voters. |
- | Our aim is to use the ballot to make law and to amend the state constitution. | + | **<font 28px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Our last statewide petition was in 2020</font>** |
- | Unlike many advocacy groups, our ballot initiatives use the state's legally binding petition process, which gathers signatures only from registered voters. | + | See here for our [[http://www.mass.gov/info-details/ballot-initiatives-filed-for-the-2022-biennial-statewide-election-proposed-laws-and#20-01-passmass-amendment-|"Original Signers"]] petition for our 2020 statewide ballot initiative. |
- | 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. | + | Over the years, the state's Attorney General declined to "certify" our petition claiming that "Corporations Are People"! She didn't say that while she was running for office! But nonetheless… Click here for her [[http://passmass.server278.com/_media/19-07_declination_letter.pdf|"2020 declination letter"]] informing us of her refusal to certify our petition as "legal". [[http://passmass.server278.com/_media/2020_declination_letter_rebutal.pdf|And click here for our 2020 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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