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PM in the News: “Odd bedfellows: Progressive critics join Democratic, Republican party bosses to oppose election reform ballot question”

Chris Lisinski, “Odd bedfellows: Progressive critics join Democratic, Republican party bosses to oppose election reform ballot question,” CommonWealth Beacon, August 20, 2026.

“It’s not that our current system is good. It’s that this alternate one is worse,” said Jonathan Cohn, policy director for Progressive Mass.

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“You can have Republicans who fear that this system will lead to Republicans being shut out of the general election, Democrats who fear that it’s going to lead to Democrats being shut out of the general election, and they can both be right in different races,” Cohn said.

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