Official Ballot of the VERA 2012 Campaign
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Adult Learners Mock Election
The Voter Education, Registration, and Action campaign of 2012 is a non-partisan effort aimed at adult learners and program staff in the New England states. Its goal is to educate adult learners about voting and about our electoral system and to mobilize them to vote in the 2012 elections.
This mock election ballot includes the two races and three ballot questions that are being voted on statewide in Massachusetts. It does not include the U.S. Congressional races and the state legislative races that vary across the state.
President and Vice-President of the United States
Choose one ticket
¢ Barack H. Obama – Democrat Joseph R. Biden – Democrat
Illinois Delaware
¢ Mitt Romney – Republican Paul Ryan – Republican
Massachusetts Wisconsin
¢ Jill Stein – Green Cheri Honkala -- Green
Massachusetts Pennsylvania
¢ Gary Johnson – Libertarian James Gray -- Libertarian
New Mexico California
Massachusetts Member of the United States Senate
Choose one candidate
¢ Scott Brown – Republican
¢ Elizabeth Warren – Democrat
Ballot Questions – Full summaries of these questions can be found at: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/pip12idx.htm
QUESTION 1: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Availability of Motor Vehicle Repair Information
A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law requiring motor vehicle manufacturers to allow vehicle owners and independent repair facilities in Massachusetts to have access to the same vehicle diagnostic and repair information made available to the manufacturers' Massachusetts dealers and authorized repair facilities.
A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws.
¢ Yes
¢ No
QUESTION 2: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Prescribing Medication to End Life
A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law allowing a physician licensed in Massachusetts to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally-ill patient meeting certain conditions, to end that person's life.
A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws.
¢ Yes
¢ No
QUESTION 3: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Medical Use of Marijuana
A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medical use of marijuana allowing patients meeting certain conditions to obtain marijuana produced and distributed by new state-regulated centers or, in specific hardship cases, to grow marijuana for their own use.
A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws.
¢ Yes
¢ No