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Internet Poker Question Won’t be on Mass Ballot

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BOSTON (AP) – Internet poker fans won’t be getting a chance to push for a ballot question legalizing the game.

Attorney General Martha Coakley ruled Wednesday that the initiative didn’t meet the legal requirements to secure a place on next year’s ballot.

Also barred were two mortgage modification proposals and a question requiring a certain percentage of the state budget go to local aid.

Dozens of other questions – including a proposal to eliminate tolls, several questions to roll back the state income tax, a question to require whale-safe commercial fishing and a proposal to lift the state cap on charter schools – cleared the hurdle.

Now comes the hard part. Supporters must collect the signatures of at least 66,593 Massachusetts voters by Dec. 2.        

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