Secretary Of state Bill Galvin released the ballot position of the nine questions that will appear on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Ballot question numbers this year were assigned at the direction of First Deputy Secretary Michelle Tassinari, the Director of the Elections Division. The questions were not ordered randomly but instead were ordered in a manner intended to maximize space on the ballot, with the length of the question summaries being the primary consideration.

Galvin’s office said that with so many questions, ballots in most cities and towns are expected to be 2- to 3 pages long. The length of each community’s ballot will depend on the number of offices and candidates running in that community, whether the ballot must be printed in more than one language and any local questions that may be added to the ballot by the city or town.

Here are the ballot positions of the nine questions:

Question 1: Expand the Public Records Law – Would make most records held by the Legislature and the governor’s office public records under the Massachusetts Public Records Law. It exempts documents related to the development of public policy and communications between legislators and their constituents, if those communications are reasonably related to a constituent’s request for assistance in obtaining government-provided benefits or services or interacting with a government agency.

Question 2: Allow collective bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) employees: Would allow employees of the CPCS to form a union.

Question 3: Eliminate political party primaries – Would implement All-Party State Primaries, known as Jungle Primaries, that would eliminate political party primaries for state elections and instead establish a system where there would be a single, all-party primary in which all candidates, regardless of their party affiliation, would be listed on one ballot, and voters could vote for any candidate on the ballot. The two candidates receiving the most votes in the primary would advance to the general election.

Question 4: Election Day registration – Would allow prospective voters to register and cast a ballot in a single trip to the polls on Election Day. Current law does not allow same-day registration.

Question 5: Surplus tax – Would require revenue generated from the recently voter-approved Millionaire Tax to count toward the allowable state tax revenue limitations, under Chapter 62F, which provides that whenever revenue collections in a fiscal year exceed an annual cap tied to wage and salary growth, the excess is returned to taxpayers.

Question 6: Create Natural Resource Conservation Fund – Would place sales tax revenue from sporting goods like golf clubs, RVs and camping gear into a new “Nature for All Fund” that sponsors say could generate $100 million annually for water and nature conservation and restoration efforts.

Question 7: Single-family homes – Would make it easier for residents to purchase a home by updating zoning rules including allowing single-family homes to be built in a residentially zoned area as long as the land on which it is to be constructed is at least 5,000 square feet, has at least 50 feet of land bordering the street, road or public way that it faces and has access to public sewer and water services.

Question 8: Prohibit retail sale of adult recreational-use marijuana – Would repeal the current laws that legalize, regulate and tax the retail sale of adult recreational use marijuana.

Question 9: Firearms regulations – Would repeal the 2024 gun control law that strengthened Bay State gun controls regulations.