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Below are some statements issued over the past few weeks by candidates for town office at the election on March 31. If you are on the ballot and would like to submit a statement to the Lincoln Squirrel, please email lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com. Coming soon: articles on the two candidates for Board of Selectman.
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Editor’s note: This article was updated on February 25.
By Alice Waugh
Eighteen Lincoln residents have officially expressed interest in running for town office in the March 31 election, but there are still three panels that have seats up for election but no candidates.
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Here’s a copy of the ballot residents will see at the polls on Monday, March 25.
Although there are no names on the ballot for the open position on the Housing Commission, but Gila Naderi of Cerulean Way is seeking election as a write-in candidate. Click here to see letters asking for support by Naderi as well as Town Clerk candidate Susan Brooks and Lincoln-Sudbury School Committee candidate Radha Gargeya.
Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Based on the unofficial Lincoln tally for the November 6 election, here’s a breakdown of voting percentages for Lincoln and, where applicable, the comparable state and U.S. results. Some of these totals don’t add up to 100 percent because of blank ballots and/or votes cast for candidates other than the Democrat or Republican. There were 3,670 ballots recorded; only six were left blank in the spot asking for choice of U.S. president.
In a nutshell, Lincoln had the same outcomes as the rest of Massachusetts on everything except for ballot question 2 (prescribing medication to end life), which Lincolnites approved by an almost two-thirds majority but which state voters narrowly defeated. There’s more information on each 2012 ballot question below the table.
In 2008, there were 3,448 Lincoln ballots tallied for president; Obama beat Biden by a margin of 75 percent to 23 percent, compared to this year’s margin of 71 percent to 29 percent.
| Candidate | % | Candidate | % | ||
| President | Lincoln | Obama (D) | 71% | Romney (R) | 29% |
| Mass. | Obama (D) | 61% | Romney (R) | 38% | |
| U.S. | Obama (D) | 51% | Romney (R) | 48% | |
| U.S. Senate | Lincoln | Warren (D) | 66% | Brown (R) | 34% |
| Mass. | Warren (D) | 54% | Brown (R) | 46% | |
| U.S. Rep. (5th District) | Lincoln | Markey (D) | 76% | Tierney (R) | 24% |
| Mass. | Markey (D) | 76% | Tierney (R) | 24% | |
| Question 1 | Lincoln | Yes | 77% | No | 10% |
| Mass. | Yes | 86% | No | 14% | |
| Question 2 | Lincoln | Yes | 64% | No | 33% |
| Mass. | Yes | 49% | No | 51% | |
| Question 3 | Lincoln | Yes | 62% | No | 30% |
| Mass. | Yes | 63% | No | 37% | |
| Question 4 | Lincoln | Yes | 47% | No | 42% |
| Question 5 | Lincoln | Yes | 72% | No | 16% |
| Question 6 | Lincoln | Yes | 58% | No | 27% |
Question 1 – Availability of motor vehicle repair information
Question 2 – Prescribing medication to end life
Question 3 – Medical use of marijuana
Question 4 – Proposition 2½ override for school building project:
“Shall the Town of Lincoln be allowed to exempt from the provisions of Proposition 2½, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bonds issued for the purposes of paying the costs of designing, renovating, rebuilding, equipping and furnishing the Lincoln School located on Ballfield Road, Lincoln, including payment of costs incidental or relate thereto?”
Question 5 – Corporations are not people/limit political contributions (nonbinding):
“Shall the state senator from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirming that (1) corporations are not entitled to the constitutional rights of human beings, and (2) both Congress and the states may place limits on political contributions and political spending?”
Question 6 – Direction to Congress and President (nonbinding):
“Shall the state representative form this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress and the President to: (1) prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance; (2) create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services; (3) provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and (4) redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home safely now?”