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- | ====== The ballot initiative that we choose each year involves collecting signatures (petitioning) to get our questions on the ballot. ====== | + | ====== [2023: We are not currently engaged in a ballot initiative.] ====== |
- | * Petitioning is: | + | [see historical info below] |
- | * citizen action to make real change! | + | ====== The ballot initiatives that we have engaged in involved collecting signatures (petitioning) to get questions on the ballot. ====== |
- | * the act of gathering signatures from voters. | + | * **__<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! | ||
- | * how we get ballot questions to the voters. | + | Groups in Massachusetts can use the ballot to make law and to amend the state constitution. |
- | Our aim is to use the ballot to make law and to amend the state constitution. | + | 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. |
- | Unlike many advocacy groups, our ballot initiatives use the state's legally binding petition process, which gathers signatures only from registered voters. | + | **<font 28px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Our last statewide petition was in 2020</font>** |
- | The 2020 petitioning season has begun! [[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]] | + | 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. |
- | 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]]. | + | 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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