Author Archives: Christine Brown

PASSED! Public Records Requirements for Legislature and Governor’s Office Initiative – The initiative would require that records the state legislature and the governor’s office hold be public records. As ofContinue reading “🙌 Yes on Question 1: Expanding Public Records Law”

PASSED! Permit Collective Bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees Initiative – The initiative would permit employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) to engage in collectiveContinue reading “🙌 YES on Question 2: Collective Bargaining for CPCS Employees”

FAILED! Top-Two Primary Elections Initiative – Question 3 would adopt top-two primaries for state offices and require gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial candidates to run as a joint ticket in primaries. Continue reading “🙌 NO on Question 3: Top-Two Primary Winners- often called All Party or Jungle primaries”

PASSED! Permit Same-Day Voter Registration Initiative – The ballot initiative would provide for same-day voter registration. 21 States and Washington, D.C. have already implemented this policy to protect voter’s rights.Continue reading “🙌 YES on Question 4: Election Day Registration”

FAILED! Change State Tax Revenue Limit Initiative – The initiative would change the method of calculating the state’s tax revenue limit so that it is equal to the sum ofContinue reading “🙌 NO on Question 5: Change State Tax Formula”

PASSED. Progressive Mass and the League of Women Voters take no position on Question 6. Steph Solis from Axios Boston reports: There are no lawsuits or bitter attack ads againstContinue reading “Question 6: Create a “Nature for All Fund””

TOO CLOSE TO CALL. Limit on Required Lot Size for Single-Family Homes Initiative – The initiative would require cities and towns to allow single-family homes on residentially zoned lots thatContinue reading “🤞YES on Question 7: Single Family Homes”

FAILED! Eliminate Recreational Marijuana Sales and Allow Limited Possession Initiative – The initiative would repeal the state’s laws that legalized, regulated, and taxed retail sales of recreational marijuana. It wouldContinue reading “🙌 Vote NO on Question 8: End Recreational Cannabis Sales and Tax Revenue”

PASSED! A veto referendum has been certified for the ballot since November 2024. It will allow voters to decide whether to retain or repeal House Bill 4885, which made severalContinue reading “🙌 Yes on Question 9: Uphold Gun Safety Law”

This November, buried at the end of a long ballot (past all of the statewide questions), the above districts will find a question about reforming legislative stipends. It’s easy toContinue reading “Is Stipend Reform on your Ballot?”