Sentences with phrase «ballot question passed»

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He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

If the ballot measure does pass, Ladd Bierman of LWV noted, there are many questions that must be addressed in the following legislative session.

The election is the result of a citizen's referendum passed nearly two years ago, and a whole lot of wrangling and maneuvering in between, and will even include a ballot question that, in effect, will decide whether the system is used in November's U.S. Senate and House races as well.

Venture capitalist Paul Sagan donated $ 100,000 to a committee working to pass Question 2 on the Massachusetts ballot this November.

After it passes the legislature, the amendment question is placed on the next general election ballot, which will be in November 2012.

Massachusetts may have voted down Ballot Question 2, which, had it passed, would have raised the cap on the number of charter schools permitted in the state, but all is not lost.

Last week former state Rep. Marty Walz, who campaigned for Great Schools Massachusetts, suggested that if the ballot question failed, the group would push in the Legislature to lift the cap on charter schools in districts where the measure passed.

On November 8th 2016 Ballot Question # 4, which will allow for the recreational use of marijuana, was passed by Massachusetts voters in a fairly wide margin of 54 % to 46 %.