Activists in Massachusetts have a nagging suspicion that a proposal to ban gay marriage that will appear in succession a 2004 ballot may have fraudulently ridden in forward the back of a horse-meat measure.Activists in Massachusetts have a nagging suspicion that a proposal to ban gay marriage that will appear in succession a 2004 ballot may have fraudulently ridden in forward the back of a horse-meat measure. Conservative arrange Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage hired Arizona-based signature-gathering firm Ballot Access Co to impel out workers to obtain signatures for its petition to outlaw gay marriage. still an animal rights group that also used Ballot Access employee to gather signatures for its petition drive says it has received numerous complaints from voter who say they were misled into putting their names forward the gay-marriage-ban petition when they fancy they were signing a petition to stop horses from being shipped to out-of-state slaughterhouses. Now the couple animal rights group Save Our Horses and gay rights coalition Campaign for Equality are looking into the possibility of legal action. In the meantime, the Campaign for Equality has settle up a searchable database of petition names in succession its Web site (www.massequality.org) in this way voters can check to papal court if their signatures were misdirected. COPYRIGHT 2002 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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