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WALSH v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

430 Mass. 103 (1999)

THOMAS J. WALSH & others v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 16, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Gilleran for the plaintiffs.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Sandra C. Quinn for Massachusetts Teachers Association, amicus curiae.

Steven S. Epstein for Citizens for Limited Taxation, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Philip B. Benjamin for Common Cause Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

At issue is whether we should change the brightline rule announced in Hurst v. State Ballot Law Comm'n, 427 Mass. 825, 830 (1998). The holding in Hurst requires invalidation of voter signatures on initiative petition forms which are not exact copies or which bear marks or alterations. The plaintiffs, the first ten signers of an initiative petition, sought...

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