Voters Reject Topless Ballot Issue

(Pittsfield, Massachusetts) A local woman, Katherine Gundelfinger, has failed to get a law changed so that she can go topless.

Voters in a state representative district in Pittsfield have knocked down a ballot proposal that pushed for a woman’s right to go topless in public.

The Third Berkshire District ballot question failed on Election Night by a more than 2-1 margin, with 2,934 votes in favor of the measure and 6,855 against.

The proposal would have required the district’s state representative to support legislation amending the definition of nudity so that females of any age could be shirtless in public anywhere that males can.

Therefore, indecent exposure remains a misdemeanor criminal offense.