Ballot Questions November 2026 | LWVMA
Election 2026

Ballot Questions November 2026

Nine ballot measures will appear on the November 3 ballot

A record-tying nine measures will appear on November 3 ballot:

1Question 1: Expanding the Public Records Law
2Question 2: Collective Bargaining for CPCS Employees
3Question 3: State Primary Elections
4Question 4: Election Day Registration
5Question 5: State Revenue Limit & Rebate
6Question 6: Natural Resource Conservation Fund
7Question 7: Single Family Homes
8Question 8: Prohibit Retail Sale of Adult Recreational Use Marijuana
9Question 9: Firearms Regulation

LWVMA Stances

✓LWVMA Supports (urges YES vote)
  • Question 1: Expanding the Public Records Law
  • Question 4: Election Day Registration
  • Question 7: Single Family Homes
  • Question 9: Firearms Regulation: Vote YES to uphold the current firearms law
✗LWVMA Opposes (urges NO vote)
  • Question 5: State Revenue Limit & Rebate
—LWVMA Takes No Position
  • Question 2: Collective Bargaining for CPCS Employees
  • Question 3: State Primary Elections
  • Question 6: Natural Resource Conservation Fund
  • Question 8: Prohibit Retail Sale of Adult Recreational Use Marijuana

How did the League reach their stands? Review how the LWVMA Board voted HERE.

Yes on 4Yes on 9

LWVMA Focuses on Yes on 4 and Yes on 9

Yes 4 Election Day Registration (EDR)

LWVMA urges a yes vote on Question 4: Election Day Registration. LWVMA has supported Election Day Registration (EDR) for more than a decade. EDR helps eligible voters who miss the state’s arbitrary cutoff for registration. It helps registered voters who have moved, changed their names, been shifted to inactive status, or have a typo in their registration. Instead of casting a provisional ballot that may take weeks to verify, they can bring ID, re-register and vote on the spot. They will remain registered for future elections. It reduces the administrative burden on election officials, who will have far fewer provisional ballots to review. Now is the time to enact this common sense reform already used by 23 states. Visit the campaign website HERE to get involved. Sign up to phone bank, text bank, table at events, amplify the campaign via social media, or display a yard sign. Download a flyer HERE.

Yes on 9 to Uphold Firearms Regulations

LWVMA is participating in the Vote Yes for a Safe Massachusetts campaign to defeat the Massachusetts Firearm Regulations Referendum. This is a veto referendum to repeal An Act Modernizing Firearms Laws. LWVMA supported the passage of this law during the previous legislative session. A YES vote upholds the law as is. A NO vote repeals the law. Learn more and take action via the Yes campaign website. Download a fact sheet HERE.

Click HERE for a one-page flyer on Yes on 4 (Election Day Registration) and Yes on 9 (Uphold Firearms Regulations).

Resources

Information for Voters or “Red Book”

The Information for Voters booklet, or the ‘Red Book” has been mailed to every voter by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Find the PDF version HERE and the interactive electronic version HERE. Access the Red Book in multiple languages HERE. VOTE411 contains the information from the Red Book, as outlined by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Attorney General and the Executive Office of Administration and Finance.

Question 3: State Primary Elections

LWVMA hosted a voter service education event on Question 3: State Primary Elections. Watch the recording HERE.

Ballot Questions PDF Presentation

Download the Ballot Questions PDF Presentation HERE.

LWVMA Advocacy

Download the “Vote with the League” 8.5 x 11 flyer HERE.