State Elections Division Certifies Final Ballot Question Signature Totals

The Elections Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s office has announced that all ballot question petitions have completed processing, adding another two ballot questions to the total number of those advancing toward the 2026 State Election ballot.

In total, eleven petitions have been determined to contain more than the 74,574 certified signatures required to proceed to the next step in the process of qualifying for the ballot.

According to the Elections Division, the final signature counts for each petition are:

• "An Initiative Petition for a Law to Implement All-Party State Primaries" – 79,032
• "An Initiative Petition to Protect Tenants by Limiting Rent Increases" – 88,132
• "Initiative Petition for a Law Relative to Election Day Registration" – 87,408
• "Initiative Petition for a Law Relative to Reducing the State Personal Income Tax Rate from 5% to 4%" – 86,970
• "Initiative Petition for a Law Relative to Regulating Marijuana" – 78,301
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Improve Access to Public Records" – 89,013
• "Initiative Petition for an Act to Reform and Regulate Legislative Stipends" – 96,797
• "Initiative Petition for a Law Relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees" – 86,153
• "Initiative Petition for a Law Relative to Limiting State Tax Collection Growth and Returning Surpluses to Taxpayers" – 85,588
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Protect Water & Nature" – 89,216
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Allow Single-Family Homes on Small Lots in Areas with Adequate Infrastructure" – 84,343
• "Initiative Petition for a Constitutional Amendment Regarding the Public Funding of Abortion" – 22,941
• "Initiative Petition for an Act to Repeal MBTA Zoning" – 4,647
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Classify the Content of the Massachusetts Central Registry of Voters as Public Records" – 47
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Require Voter Identification in Massachusetts (Version A)" – 35
• "Initiative Petition for a Proposed Constitutional Amendment – Recall Elections for Statewide, Countywide, and Districtwide Elected Officers" – 30
• "Initiative Petition for a Constitutional Amendment Relative to Voting Rights" – 26
• "Initiative Petition for an Act Preserving Local Control of Zoning" – 3,088
• "Initiative Petition for an Act to Prevent Overdevelopment" – 2,935
• "Initiative Petition for an Act Reforming the Zoning Process" – 2,890
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Promote Consent and Transparency in Utility Billing" – 90
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Guarantee Analog Utility Meter Availability and Informed Consent for Wireless Metering" – 111
• "Initiative Petition for a Law to Eliminate Revenue-Based Reconciliation in Utility Rate Structures" – 57

In accordance with the Massachusetts Constitution, Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin will now transmit the eleven qualifying petitions to the Massachusetts Legislature. The Legislature will have until May 5, 2026 to consider and act on the proposals. If the Legislature chooses not to pass a proposed law, the petitioners will be permitted to gather the additional 12,429 signatures needed to place the question on the ballot in November.