Question 6 Passed in all 20 Districts!

Question 6 for public committee votes passed overwhelmingly in all 20 districts. See below for official vote tallies. Combined with results of the ballot question in 2020 (also below), support for public committee votes in Massachusetts totals 87% with over half a million voters in 36 districts across the Commonwealth voting YES.

As part of The People's House campaign for rules reform, we organized to put a non-binding policy question on 20 ballots across the Commonwealth. Our question asks voters if they support requiring legislators on Beacon Hill to make their committee votes public.

The question language: "Shall the representative for this district be instructed to vote in favor of changes to the applicable House of Representative rules to make each legislator’s vote in that body's Legislative committees publicly available on the Legislature's website?"

Because this is a non-binding question, it doesn't become law if passed, but rather serves as a way for constituents to directly and publicly tell their representative how they want them to vote on an issue. And, frankly, our movement had a lot to say.

An average of 84% of voters across 20 districts voted YES to instruct their legislators to vote to make committee votes public.

District	Representative	Yes	Yes%	No	No%	Total
25th Middlesex	Marjorie Decker	10,854	94.24%	663	5.76%	11,517
15th Suffolk	Sam Montaño	11,715	93.52%	812	6.48%	12,527
34th Middlesex	Christine Barber	11,165	89.16%	1,358	10.84%	12,523
14th Middlesex	Simon Cataldo	16,247	88.56%	2,098	11.44%	18,345
8th Essex	Jenny Armini	13,987	86.55%	2,174	13.45%	16,161
2nd Berkshire	Tricia Farley-Bouvier	10,588	86.16%	1,701	13.84%	12,289
19th Worcester	Kate Donaghue	13,300	86.05%	2,156	13.95%	15,456
3rd Plymouth	Joan Meschino	16,725	85.71%	2,789	14.29%	19,514
4th Barnstable	Sarah Peake	18,166	84.69%	3,283	15.31%	21,449
1st Essex	Dawne Shand	16,108	84.00%	3,069	16.00%	19,177
4th Middlesex	Danielle Gregoire	9,860	82.81%	2,047	17.19%	11,907
12th Suffolk	Brandy Fluker-Oakley	8,448	82.81%	1,754	17.19%	10,202
35th Middlesex	Paul Donato	9,443	82.09%	2,060	17.91%	11,503
33rd Middlesex	Steve Ultrino	6,469	81.76%	1,443	18.24%	7,912
12th Worcester	Meg Kilcoyne	13,234	81.07%	3,090	18.93%	16,324
13th Suffolk	Dan Hunt	7,214	80.35%	1,764	19.65%	8,978
2nd Franklin	Susannah Whipps	11,623	79.61%	2,977	20.39%	14,600
12th Hampden	Angelo Puppolo	10,728	78.42%	2,953	21.58%	13,681
3rd Norfolk	Ronald Mariano	8,853	77.99%	2,499	22.01%	11,352
8th Hampden	Shirley Arriaga	8,673	74.64%	2,947	25.36%	11,620
TOTAL		233,400	84.25%	43637	15.75%	277,03

Ballot Question 4, 2020

Act on Mass ran a similar ballot question in 16 districts in 2020, which passed with an average of 90%.

2020 Ballot Question Language: "Shall the representative for this district be instructed to vote in favor of changes to the applicable House of Representative rules to make the results of all the votes in that body's Legislative committees publicly available on the Legislature's website?"

District	Rep	Votes Yes	Votes No	% Yes	% No	Rep's vote on public committee votes in 2021
5th Essex	Ann-Margaret Ferrante	19338	3264	85.6%	14.4%	NO
1st Franklin	Natalie Blais	21539	2762	88.6%	11.4%	NO
2nd Hampshire	Daniel Carey	20212	2982	87.1%	12.9%	NO
3rd Hampshire	Mindy Domb	12402	919	93.1%	6.9%	NO
11th Middlesex	Kay Khan	19170	1790	91.5%	8.5%	NO
12th Middlesex	Ruth Balser	18368	1746	91.3%	8.7%	NO
21st Middlesex	Kenneth Gordon	19530	3569	84.5%	15.5%	NO
27th Middlesex	Erika Uyterhoeven	20704	1250	94.3%	5.7%	YES
29th Middlesex	Steve Owens	20458	1707	92.3%	7.7%	YES
11th Norfolk	Paul McMurtry	20296	3139	86.6%	13.4%	NO
15th Norfolk	Tommy Vitolo	17287	1258	93.2%	6.8%	NO
11th Suffolk	Liz Malia	15948	1682	90.5%	9.5%	NO
15th Suffolk	Nika Elugardo	15688	1294	92.4%	7.6%	YES
17th Suffolk	Kevin Honan	13991	996	93.4%	6.6%	NO
18th Suffolk	Michael Moran	11557	903	92.8%	7.2%	NO
19th Suffolk	Jeffrey Turco	11796	2418	83.0%	17.0%	NO
	TOTAL	278284	31679	90%	10.0%