[Themaintainers] Mass. auto right-to-repair ballot issue

[Jonathan Coopersmith]

(copying this, not original with me:  an important issue).

Car right to repair is on the ballot again. This time about access to car
telematics data. Here is more information about the ballot question..

Ballot questions
https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/IFV_2020.pdf

Making sense of Question 1, the return of the Massachusetts right-to-repair
debate
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/09/29/massachusetts-question-1-right-to-repair-2020-ballot-measure/

Mass. has been pummeled by ads on Question 1. They veer into exaggeration
and ‘fearmongering,’ experts say
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/21/metro/massachusetts-has-been-pummeled-by-ads-about-question-1-they-veer-into-exaggeration-fear-mongering-experts-say/


Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well
as physical distancing,

Jonathan

Jonathan Coopersmith
Professor
Department of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4236
979.291.2925 (cell)
979.862.4314 (fax)

*Vote early (not often), and help others vote*:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/a-citizens-guide-to-defending-the-election/616574/

Engineering elections:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles-us-election

Racial disparities in waiting to vote:
https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267

*FAXED.  The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University
Press)
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