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BALLOT QUESTIONS
Voters showed conservative bent
Massachusetts has long been cast as a bastion of liberalism. Yet when state residents cast their votes on eight ballot questions, choosing sides on everything from tax cuts to prisoners' rights to universal health care, a distinctly conservative profile emerged.
Dog-racing measure is defeated
Voters reject overhaul of health care system
Results of all eight ballot questions
Lengthy ballot tests will of voters
Yesterday's vote in Massachusetts was ''MCAS for adults,'' said Secretary of State William Galvin, with the myriad ballot questions, tiny typeface, and enormous turnout a potential recipe for failure -- or breakdown -- at the polling stations.
Choices made, deliberately
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Recent Massachusetts election news and opinion
Cellucci talks to Bush, declines comment on D.C. post, By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff, 12/8/2000
Predictions differ on Cellucci plans, By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff, 12/7/2000
Mass. joins states urging Supreme Court not to intervene in recount, By Carolyn Ryan, Globe Staff, 11/29/2000
George W.'s conundrum, By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist, 11/28/2000 -OPINION
State has promises to keep on Question 4, By Stephen E. Collins and Leo Sarkissian, 11/26/2000 -OPINION
For many, relief in nonpolitical football, By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff, 11/24/2000
Vote debated on State House steps, By Rick Klein, Globe Staff, 11/19/2000
Ballot questions recount produces same results, By Steven Wilmsen, Globe Staff, 11/18/2000
Galvin cites concern, orders Boston recount, By Steven Wilmsen, Globe Staff, 11/10/2000
Florida becomes the talk of Boston, By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff, 11/10/2000
Some students wonder: What if?, By Patrick Healy, Globe Staff, 11/9/2000
Galvin: Get US involved in count, By Tina Cassidy, Globe Staff, 11/9/2000
Teachers air anti-MCAS ad, By Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff, 11/9/2000
Local ballot questions draw big turnouts, By Amber Bollman, Globe Correspondent, 11/9/2000
Initiative tallies show conservative bent, By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff, 11/9/2000
Living history: Deadlock election provides rare lesson for students, By Anand Vaishnav, Globe Staff, 11/9/2000
Bay State Democrats head north to help push for Gore, By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff, 11/9/2000
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