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Question 3: Primary Election Reform
A YES vote would eliminate separate party primaries for state elections and require a single primary in which all candidates appear on one ballot, voters could vote for any candidate, and the top two candidates would advance to the general election. A NO vote would make no change to the laws governing primary elections.
For YES
$4,141,351spent on this question in 2026
Committees
- Coalition for Healthy Democracy 2026Raised $6,999,608 in 2025–26 · spent on this question $4,141,351Also active on Question 1 (YES)
Top donors (organizations), 2025–26
- JM Forbes & Co LLP $200,000
- Partners in Democracy $81,786
- Leadership Now Project $50,000
- Blue Haven Initiative LLC $25,000
- Coalition for Healthy Democracy 2026 $19,736
For NO
$50,041spent on this question in 2026
Committees
- Voter Rights MARaised $184,275 in 2025–26 · spent on this question $50,036
- Democratic Socialists Against Reactionary RollbacksRaised $50 in 2025–26 · spent on this question $5Also active on Question 5 (NO), Question 8 (NO)
Top donors (organizations), 2025–26
- 1199 SEIU MA PAC $100,000
- MA Democratic State Committee $62,092
- Local 509 Service Employees Int'l Union Comm on Pol Ed, MA Workers' Pol Action Comm. $10,000
- AFT Massachusetts Solidarity $5,000
- Progressive Massachusetts $4,152
How to read this
- Ballot question committees report to OCPF, the state’s campaign finance office. OCPF lists which committees are for (YES) and against (NO) each question.
- “Spent on this question” is OCPF’s figure. When one committee works on more than one question, OCPF splits its general spending between them.
- “Raised” is the committee’s total for the two years, including goods and services given in place of money (in-kind). A committee working on several questions raises one pot of money, so it is listed under each of its questions.
- Top donors are organizations only, added up across the committees on that side, with names spelled as the committees reported them. MassVoter does not show the names of individual donors.
- MassVoter updates these numbers every night from OCPF. Last update: October 12, 2026.
These numbers describe the money; they are not a grade. Raising more or less is neither good nor bad. MassVoter does not connect donations to votes or positions.