<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=24RDH7_1GxzHy5R00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=24RDH7_1GxzHy5R00" width="1280" height="671" >Voters overwhelmingly supported an advisory ballot question seeking to reduce legislative leaders’ control over lawmakers’ extra pay, endorsing the proposal with 76.6% of votes cast on the question.Question 10 received 3,894 yes votes and 1,190 no votes, according to unofficial town results.The nonbinding question asked whether the district’s representative should support legislation or rules reducing the House speaker’s and Senate president’s control over legislators’ stipends. It also sought to limit that extra pay to lawmakers performing significant additional work that is transparent and accountable to the public.The result expresses voters’ preferences without changing state law or requiring lawmakers to act.Democrat Joseph Markey, who won election Tuesday to represent the 20th Middlesex District, will enter office with that guidance from Lynnfield voters. Markey carried the town with 3,412 votes to Republican Trevor Currier’s 2,569.The stipend proposal also drew strong support in other communities where it appeared, although its ballot number varied.In the portion of Middleton where it appeared as Question 10, voters supported it 2,148 to 750, or 74.1%. North Reading voters approved it as Question 11, with 5,328 yes votes to 1,536 no votes, or 77.6%.In the eligible portion of Reading, the proposal appeared as Question 12 and passed 3,232 to 959, or 77.1%.All results are unofficial.</div></body>

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Voters overwhelmingly supported an advisory ballot question seeking to reduce legislative leaders’ control over lawmakers’ extra pay, endorsing the proposal with 76.6% of votes cast on the question. Question 10 received 3,894 yes votes and 1,190 no votes, according to unofficial town results. The nonbinding question asked whether...

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