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Article: New Party battles for recognition in Boston
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- December 5, 1996
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Jeremy Pawloski
Bay State Banner
12-05-1996
New Party battles for recognition in Boston.
The 83 percent of the voters in Mattapan's Twelfth Suffolk District who bothered to cast their ballots on Question 3 agree with the Eastern Massachusetts New Party: the influence of special interest money should be removed from state elections.
But the New Party, which sponsored the non-binding referendum question in 24 state representative districts across the state, faces a problem common to fledging third parties.
The 54 percent of the electorate in Mattapan which left Question 3 blank, not to mention the legions of independents and undecideds statewide, might not know they exist.
"If you look at ...