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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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