Massachusetts officials certified this week that an initiative to roll back that state’s marijuana legalization law will appear on the November ballot—but the campaign is facing a new challenge to the most recent batch of signatures it submitted in support of the measure.
The objection filed with the State Ballot Law Commission by cannabis reform advocate Kevin Gilnack claims that various signatures were not genuine, obtained through fraudulent means or were not “signed substantially as registered.” Others, it says, belong to people who are not registered voters at the address they claimed or who subsequently requested to have their names removed.
The filing also says that some petition forms contained extraneous marks or were not “exact copies” of the form provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Office, “in that they differ from the original in paper size, color, text, or format, or otherwise fail to conform to the requirements” of the law.
“Such signatures should not have been certified, and should not be included in the number of allowed signatures required to qualify an initiative petition to be printed on the November 2026 ballot,” the objection says.
The commission has scheduled a hearing starting on Wednesday to consider the dispute, and
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