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Help reach Secretary Galvin's goal of collecting over 100,000 signatures from registered voters by the ballot question deadline, November 19th.  Please pitch in by adding your own signature and by gathering signatures from fellow committee members, family, friends, and neighbors from your city or town.

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Ballot question petitions can’t be signed electronically, but you can use this PDF of Petition Y to print blank petitions to use to gather signatures from registered voters.

 

The Massachusetts Constitution is very strict about these petitions, so please follow these instructions to make sure signatures can be counted:

 

DO:

• Print the petition on white, letter-sized paper.

• Print the petition double-sided.

• Sign your name in the signature column and write your address in the column next to it.

• Sign as legibly as possible and make sure the address matches where you’re registered to vote.

• Write the name of your city or town in the box at the bottom of the page, and encourage other voters registered in your community to sign the same sheet as well.

• Collect signatures using separate sheets for voters registered in different cities and towns.
   

DON’T:

• Do not alter the petition in any way.

• Do not scribble, highlight, underline, or make any other marks on the petition. Do not test pens on the petition.  No coffee or food stains. NO STRAY MARKS!

• Do not write anything on the petition outside of the signature lines or the boxes for writing the city/town.

• Do not print the two sides of the petition on two sheets of paper.

• Do not staple anything to the petition.

• Do not collect signatures from voters registered in different cities or towns on the same sheet.
   

When you’re finished with a sheet for a city or town, please submit it to the local election official as early as possible. Petitions need to go to the clerk or election office at the city or town hall where the signatures are gathered.

 

These petitions need to be submitted to local election offices no later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, but please deliver or mail your completed petitions as soon as you complete a sheet for a city or town or at least a week before this deadline.