From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Massachusetts 2006 ballot measures
Massachusetts 2006 ballot measures
Number Initiative Title Subject Description Status
Question Sale of Wine by Alcohol A law to allow local authorities to license stores selling groceries to Failed
1 Food Stores sell wine.
Question Nomination of Can- Electoral A law to create "more ballot choices" by allowing for fusion voting. Failed
2 didates for Public policy
Office
Question Family Child Care Child A law to allow home-based family child care providers providing Failed
3 Providers Care state-subsidized care to bargain collectively with the state govern-
ment.
Three citizen-initiated measures will appear on the are assigned to each of the successful initiatives. Secre-
November 7, 2006 ballot in Massachusetts. tary of State William Galvin has discretion over the or-
The Massachusetts Constitution can be amended der of questions on the ballot. His office announced that
through initiative and state statutes can be proposed they had determined the ballot ordering "based on the
through initiative. All three statewide ballot measures perceived relative importance of the proposed laws."
that are on the November 2006 ballot by collecting sig-
natures are proposed statutes (not constitutional amend-
ments).
What will be on the November
In Massachusetts, after the state determines which ballot
initiatives have succeeded in collecting enough signa-
tures to be placed on the ballot, official numbers/names
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