Registration for today's primary closed August 22. Question 4 would end that cutoff, though not in time for November. The Secretary of the Commonwealth is one of its ten first signers.
"After many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision." The judge sent them back without giving the deadlock instruction, and holding it in reserve was deliberate.
A claim circulating during deliberations says jurors wore the supporters' color. No outlet has reported it. What did happen on August 20 is more legally significant than the rumor.
The jury has three verdict slips and five options on each. If they cannot agree, Massachusetts has a specific instruction for that, and strict limits on how hard a judge may push.
After a man died on the third rail at Forest Hills, a question people ask after every serious injury on the T. The answer involves a notice requirement that ends more cases than any argument about fault.
Question 5 changes the 1986 law that returned $3 billion to taxpayers in 2022. Nearly all the money behind it came from a single entity that files nothing with the state.
Question 3 would end party primaries in Massachusetts and send the top two finishers to November regardless of party. It covers congressional races despite its name, and it would not take effect until 2028.
The site most people find first is no longer the sheriff's. Here are the real rules for the Hampden County Correctional Center and the women's center in Chicopee, including why your visiting day depends on a last name.
The only contested statewide primary was effectively settled in April. What remains is the argument the winner carries into November, and the strongest version of it is not the one being made.
More than eight million dollars in outside money is shaping Tuesday's primaries. We traced every committee to its funders, and checked the Soros claim against the actual filings.
