MA voting: ballot questions

[koshmom]

I just looked at the ballot for next tuesday's election

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[dmk]

Question 2: can one person be nominated by more than 1 party, and be on the ballot twice?

Interesting. I grew up in NY, and there were many parties, and any given candidate could be nominated by any assortment of parties. I doubt there were any rules about who could be on which party line. It's been a very long time since I voted in NY; my hazy recollection is that the votes were split by the candidates, then the winning candidate took the party name that had the most votes for that candidate.

Vote O'Keefe for State Treasurer

[radioactiverich]

You have a personal connection to, and have probably met, James O'Keefe running for State Treasurer. I'll be voting for him, and on his behalf I would like to ask for your vote for him. Why? Other than the personal connection, Jamie wants to take environmental and social consequences into consideration when investing MA funds -- pension funds and the like -- steering them to socially- and environmentally-friendly companies which can provide an equitable return on investment. (i.e., when all else is equivalent, go with the non-polluter or the company which pays a living wage to its employees, etc.) Sorry, I can't advise you on who not to vote for.

[hammercock]

I believe that voting YES on Question 2 is a good idea and am planning to do so

[klingonlandlady]

People: I am inclined to vote against Galvin, cause I heard a rumor he was thinking od introducing Diebold voting machines to Mass. And there is no republican running for that slot so it's him or the Green party candidate.

Question 1: It's not even liquor, it's just wine. Really, end the prohibition. Good liquor stores will sell things the supermarkets don't.

I'll be interested to hear people's thoughts on the others.

[marmota]

Question One only applies to wine. On one hand, I have no problem with supermarkets selling wine; from what I've seen of the S&S in Malden that already does, they'll just carry gallon and box wines anyway, so liquor stores will still be the place to go for the good stuff. On the other hand, I live around the corner from a Store 24, and I already find it horrific that most of their business is drugs and gambling (tobacco and lottery tickets), and probably would be pornography too if the internet hadn't undercut their magazine sales... adding booze to that seems to me to be going in the wrong direction. I'll likely vote yes on it, and hope that town planning boards take up the slack.

Question Two is interesting, in that by allowing multiple affiliations, election statistics can be tracked by special interest, not just candidate. It may confuse some voters if they don't organize ballots purely by office.