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Signature Requirements Unchanged Amidst Health Crisis

Colin A. Young3/23/20 4:28 PM

House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Karen Spilka kept a six-foot distance from each other and members of the press during a media availability Monday afternoon. [Photo: Sam Doran/SHNS]

Hours after fast-tracking a bill to allow the postponement of springtime municipal elections, House and Senate leaders said Monday that they are having talks around the possibility of lowering the number of signatures certain candidates must collect to secure ballot access amid a bipartisan push to change a process that conflicts with public health advice about limiting the spread of the coronavirus.

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