Sana Bég, Executive Director MSF Canada - www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

About two-thirds of the 500 likely general election voters surveyed in a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll said they prefer having a direct say on legislation through the ballot question process, far outpacing the 14 percent who said they think legislators “should fulfill their duty to make laws.”For supporters, the logic is pretty simple. “We elect our legislators, and we trust that they’ll make decisions in our best interest,” said Mary Devlin, a 77-year-old unenrolled voter from Cape Cod. “But sometimes that’s not always the case. So I think you need to have that balance where we also get to say what we would like to see put in place.”Paul Dratfield, a Democrat from South Hadley, similarly said he mostly trusts the Legislature to craft laws. But “having the general population weigh in is a very good thing,” he said. Legislative leaders are more or less used to controlling exactly which laws live or die (often down to each amendment), so many have bristled at this year’s record-tying slate of nine ballot questions that are putting a range of issues directly before voters.