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| - | ====== [We are not currently engaged in a ballot initiative.] ====== | + | ====== [2023: We are not currently engaged in a ballot initiative.] ====== |
| - | ====== The ballot initiatives that we have engaged in involves collecting signatures (petitioning) to get questions on the ballot. ====== | + | [see historical info below] |
| - | * Petitioning is: | + | ====== The ballot initiatives that we have engaged in involved collecting signatures (petitioning) to get questions on the ballot. ====== |
| + | * **__<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. |
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| - | Our aim is to use the ballot to make law and to amend the state constitution. | + | |
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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. | + | |
| **<font 28px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Our last statewide petition was in 2020</font>** | **<font 28px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Our last statewide petition was in 2020</font>** | ||