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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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