Decree, findings, and opinion on legislative pay raise referendum petition, 1964.

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Decree, findings, and opinion on legislative pay raise referendum petition, 1964.

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The State Ballot Law Commission renders decisions concerning objections to validity of nomination papers or other actions placing candidates or initiative/referendum questions on the ballot (MGLA c 55B, s 4). Until passage of St 1980, c 134, s 8, jurisdiction extended to public policy questions on such ballots. This series concerns the challenge of Charles H. McGlue et al. to placing on the 1964 ballot a referendum question to repeal or suspend a legislative pay raise because of fraudulent signatures.

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