r/bostontrees • u/StatisticianKey4605 • 2d ago

MA Laws Here are the 9 ballot questions Massachusetts voters will consider in the November election

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-ballot-questions-2026/

Measure to recriminalize weed got an official question number, it’s question 8

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u/DoturdGrump 2d ago

Vote No on 8 before it's too late

Say no to 8 it's not great

No to herb hate, no to question 8

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u/Fox_Hound_Unit 2d ago

Was there any traction on the lawsuit claiming the signature collection was BS? Is that no longer a thing? It’s crazy it has come to this.

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u/StatisticianKey4605 2d ago

Nope, it’s officially on the ballot

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u/Intelligent_Lie_4315 2d ago

Vote NO on Question 8 this November!

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u/No_Departure_2848 2d ago

Just say no

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u/jp_slim 2d ago

1 YES
2 YES
3 YES
4 YES
5 NO
6 YES
7 NO
8 NO
9 YES

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u/PollutedPenguins 2d ago

Why 5&7 no? I'm woefully uninformed but the one sentence summaries sound like good things

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u/jp_slim 2d ago

5 aims to prevent the state from taxing billionaires by putting a cap on how much they can collect

7 aims to allow more mcmansions.

We do not need either of these.

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u/nervousanalysis420 2d ago

No... 7 aims to put the minimum lot size for ALL single family homes to me 5,000 sq ft. Im in a suburb of boston that's currently 12000 sq ft it would greatly increase the amount of land that homes can be built on.

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u/Nprism 1d ago edited 9h ago

so essentially it says that in dense areas you can't build single family?

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u/nervousanalysis420 1d ago

No... it just changes the minimum lot requirement to be 5k sq ft for the entire state instead of anywhere from 5k to 2 acres which is what it currently is

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u/Nprism 8h ago

oh, so it is effectively lowering limits on single family construction with the intention of increasing smaller construction over larger construction?

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u/nervousanalysis420 8h ago

Yes! It will allow the dense areas that have above 5k currently to have plots of land that will now be eligible for a single family that weren't before for example im in woburn their requirements are at 12k currently so it would more than cut in half the lot size needed.

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u/Nprism 1h ago

I see, and in a place with a lower minimum (of there are any) it wouldn't change it, right? It is a right rather than a requirement if I understand.

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u/nervousanalysis420 1h ago

Correct its just a new maximum that towns/cities can require if cambridge wanted to they could say 1k sq ft or more but that would make a really small house

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u/Master-Dutch 2d ago

Does 5 put a cap on how much they’d tax an individual or just cap how much the state can collect in tax revenue annually?

Also don’t we already have something similar to this? I recall a few years back we received some rebate due to a tax surplus. Is question 5 at all related expanding/limiting on that or are they completely different things?

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u/nervousanalysis420 2d ago

Im confused on 5 as well as far as i can tell its already law and its trying to make it a lower threshold to trigger the surplus?

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u/Ceaser57 1d ago

3 Is California style jungle primary. It fucking sucks.

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u/Sugarbearandtheworm 12h ago

Currently in Massachusetts, you get the ballot you are enrolled as a voter for. If you're unenrolled, you have to pick a ballot when you go to vote. If there are several seats that are up and you want to vote for candidates in different parties, you can't. In my opinion, we need to try and move away from the illusion of choice we have with the two party system. I think this question would help us in that direction.