These are the Green-Rainbow Party’s positions on the 2026 ballot questions, adopted by our State Committee on October 19.

The ballot question process has increasingly exposed the corrosive effects of money in our politics and the failures of our legislature. Several questions are backed by misleading big-money campaigns, and they made the ballot with signature gatherers paid for by wealthy donors. Bills to do what Questions 2 and 4 propose have been filed session after session, and the legislature has never passed them into law, even though the Democrats who control nearly all of state government say they support them. On Question 1, lawmakers only moved once it qualified for the ballot, and the House’s version would still shield their own emails.

We can’t forget the many times our legislature has ignored or subverted the results of ballot questions, from refusing to fund the Clean Elections Law voters passed in 1998, to fighting the audit of the legislature that 72% of voters approved in 2024, and cutting the estate tax and the short-term capital gains tax less than a year after voters passed the Fair Share Amendment. The only way to make our government accountable to the people rather than wealthy donors is to keep organizing around our demands and to replace our legislators with candidates who aren’t beholden to the corporate parties. If you’re interested in running for office, get in touch with us.