Who's Paying for the 2026 Massachusetts Ballot Questions
Nine questions. Twenty one committees. About $22 million. Here is what each side has raised on every question, what jumped this week, and the date every number was checked.
Funding figures are total receipts reported to OCPF since each committee organized, through filings covering the period ending October 26, 2026, checked October 27, 2026. They will shift before Election Day.
What moved this week
Each row is one committee: what this site showed for it a week ago, and what its own filings show now. These are not estimates and they are not projections. They are the committees' own numbers, filed because the 72-hour rule left them no choice.
| Committee | Question | Last week | Now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalition for Healthy Democracy 2026 | Question 1 · Question 3 YES | $5,127,978 | $7,706,458 | +$2,578,480 · 1.5x |
| Vote Yes for Water and Nature | Question 6 YES | $2,934,989 | $3,735,347 | +$800,358 · 1.3x |
| Voter Rights MA | Question 3 NO | $35,000 | $287,715 | +$252,715 · 8.2x |
| Protect Massachusetts Future | Question 5 NO | $669,000 | $869,000 | +$200,000 · 1.3x |
| The Civil Rights Coalition | Question 9 NO | $508,728 | $593,468 | +$84,740 · 1.2x |
| Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Policy | Question 8 NO | Not yet registered | $150,100 | new committee |
Source: each committee's own filings at OCPF. "Last week" is the figure this site published before October 27, 2026.
All nine, side by side
Total receipts reported since each committee organized. Where more than one committee is on a side, they are added together. Tap a question to read it.
Committees: 3 for, 0 against
Committees: 2 for, 0 against
Committees: 1 for, 2 against
Committees: 3 for, 0 against
Committees: 1 for, 4 against
Committees: 1 for, 0 against
Committees: 3 for, 0 against
Committees: 1 for, 4 against
Committees: 2 for, 1 against
The notch on a bar is the figure this site published at its last check, on October 20, 2026. Everything past the notch was reported in the days since, because this close to an election a contribution of $500 or more has to be filed within 72 hours. No notch means the figure has not moved.
See these numbers as a plain table
| Question | YES side raised | NO side raised | Committees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Expanding the Public Records Law | $8,038,198plus $138,374 in-kind | Nothing reported | Committees: 3 for, 0 against |
| 2Union Rights for Public Defenders | $1,083,110plus $5,655 in-kind | Nothing reported | Committees: 2 for, 0 against |
| 3State Primary Elections | $7,706,458plus $89,472 in-kind | $287,765plus $34,762 in-kind | Committees: 1 for, 2 against |
| 4Election Day Registration | $171,127plus $158,635 in-kind | Nothing reported | Committees: 3 for, 0 against |
| 5State Revenue Limit & Rebate | $686,158plus $1,960,207 in-kind | $937,822plus $150,837 in-kind | Committees: 1 for, 4 against |
| 6Natural Resource Conservation Fund | $3,735,347plus $592,044 in-kind | Nothing reported | Committees: 1 for, 0 against |
| 7Single-Family Homes on Smaller Lots | $1,724,190plus $33,370 in-kind | Nothing reported | Committees: 3 for, 0 against |
| 8Ban on Retail Marijuana Sales | $3,781,835 | $2,959,319plus $185,180 in-kind | Committees: 1 for, 4 against |
| 9Firearms Law Referendum | $791,025plus $114,836 in-kind | $593,468 | Committees: 2 for, 1 against |
Source: committee filings at OCPF, totalled by this site. Each question page lists that question's committees, each linked to its own filings.
How these numbers are counted
Each figure is the total a committee has reported receiving since it organized. Not what it spent, and not one reporting period. Reading a single report instead of adding them up is the most common way these numbers go wrong.
In-kind support is listed separately. That is donated staff time, office space, polling and services rather than money in the bank, and folding it into one total hides which side can actually buy advertising.
Don't add the nine rows together. One committee works on both Question 1 and Question 3, so its money appears in two rows. OCPF reports $24.8 million raised and $22.1 million spent across all nine questions.
"Nothing reported" means nobody filed. No committee has registered with OCPF to oppose that question. That is not the same as nobody objecting.
OCPF's own ballot-question summary page reports money spent, and it splits a committee that works on two questions evenly between them, so its per-question totals are smaller than the receipts shown here. Each committee's own OCPF page shows its receipts.
Where this comes from
Every figure comes from the committees' own filings with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance, the state agency that collects them. Each committee name above links to its own OCPF filings, so you can check any number on this page against the source.
Committees file on the 5th and the 20th of each month, plus a 72-hour report for large contributions that arrive late. The next regular reports are due November 5, and this page will move again when they land.
This page compares what each side has raised. It does not tell you how to vote, and more money on a side is not evidence that the side is right.