Your ballot for this November’s election has nine statewide ballot questions. In September voters were mailed an Information for Voters booklet from the Office of the Secretary of State with summaries and arguments for and against each question.
Those “for” and “against” arguments are written by proponents and opponents of the question, and are not checked for accuracy or truthfulness by the secretary of the state – one reason The Cambridge Somerville Independent provides this article. The state Legislature had the opportunity to pass these items into law but did not do so by the deadline of July 31 after review by their Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions.
There are no campaign contribution limits on ballot questions. Chances are, the more ads you see for or against a particular ballot question, the more campaign contributions are going into it…