2024 Question 1: Difference between revisions
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'''Question 1''' was an [[initiative petition]] on the ballot in the [[2024 state election]] on November 5, 2024. It specified that the [[State Auditor]] had the authority to audit the [[Legislature]]. The measure passed with 71.6 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|author=Secretary of the Commonwealth|title=2024 - Statewide - Question 1|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/ballot_questions/view/11620/}}</ref> | '''Question 1''' was an [[initiative petition]] on the ballot in the [[2024 state election]] on November 5, 2024. It specified that the [[State Auditor]] had the authority to audit the [[Legislature]]. The measure passed with 71.6 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|author=Secretary of the Commonwealth|title=2024 - Statewide - Question 1|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/ballot_questions/view/11620/}}</ref> | ||
== Background == | |||
In State Auditor Diana DiZoglio's successful 2022 election campaign, she promised to start conducting audits of the Legislature.<ref name="unnecessary">{{cite web|author=Matt Stout|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/24/metro/wholly-unnecessary-mass-house-speaker-says-he-will-not-comply-with-state-auditors-legislative-probe/|title=‘Wholly unnecessary’: Mass. House speaker says he will not comply with state auditor’s legislative probe}}</ref> On March 7, 2023, DiZoglio's office began an audit of the Legislature, citing that "Massachusetts ranks as one of the least transparent and least accessible state governments in the nation."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mass.gov/news/statement-from-state-auditor-dizoglio-regarding-an-audit-of-the-massachusetts-state-legislature|title=Statement from State Auditor DiZoglio Regarding an Audit of the Massachusetts State Legislature|author=Office of the State Auditor}}</ref> | |||
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