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State Fights Blocking of Referenda

Connolly's spokesperson, Robert F. Moriarty, told The Crimson last month that extensive questioning of city and town election clerks resulted in no findings of irregularities.

"There's been a handful of problems," he said. "Those problems are more related to confusion--people coming in and realizing that the state ballot summaries would not be on the ballot."

Zobel's restraining order is a setback for supporters of Question 9. But anti-rent control leaders denounced the suit yesterday.

"It's a long shot, an act of desperation on the part of tenants," said Lenore M. Schloming '59, a board member of the Small Property Owners Association.

Schloming said most voters were well informed and prepared for the ballot, which had no summary or title for each question.

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The temporary restraining order only applies to the five questions which create new law. Also affected are Question 3, which would change the funding structure for Mass Student PIRG; Question 4, a term-limits measure; Question 5, which would ease the state's "blue laws," and Question 8, which would raise gasoline-tax spending on highways

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