Massachusetts officials have formally certified that an initiative to roll back that state’s marijuana legalization law will appear on the November ballot.
The Elections Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Office on Thursday informed organizers that they had turned in enough valid signatures during a second round of petitioning to put the measure before voters—but just barely.
Under state law, Massachusetts ballot campaigns must turn in signatures in two waves. After the first submission, the legislature gets a chance to enact proposed ballot measures after organizers submit an initial round of petitions. Lawmakers in May declined to act on the anti-marijuana measure, however, and so organizers needed to submit additional 12,429 certified signatures by July 1 to make the November ballot.
“I am pleased to inform you that 12,551 certified signatures of the 12,889 received by this Office on or before July 1, 2026, have been allowed,” Michelle K. Tassinar of the Elections Division wrote in a letter to one of the initial signers. “The remaining signatures have been disallowed for not being certified, not in conformance with the interpretation of [state law] or in excess in the allowed number per county.”
“Therefore, the initiative petition will be printed
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