Free public service for Massachusetts votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked October 1, 2026General election November 3, 2026
Scope and limitations
What this Massachusetts guide covers
This guide covers all six statewide candidate contests and all 15 current printed choices or tickets confirmed by Massachusetts' official general-election roster.
Included
Published now
15 printed choices or tickets in all six statewide candidate contests
The official State Election Candidates page and statewide sample ballot
The official write-in process and the absence of an exhaustive named general-election roster
11 exact August OCPF Composite Depository Bank Reports
4 processed FEC U.S. Senate summaries
Registration, early voting, vote-by-mail application, ballot return, and Election Day rules
All nine binding statewide ballot questions
The finding of zero statewide judicial election or retention items, with the appointment system stated
428,921 safely projected itemized disclosure records plus 1,133 explicit unitemized report aggregates, with source report IDs and links
A verified bank cash-flow subset of 1,502 CPF accounts and 11,379 reports; bank credits and payments remain distinct from fundraising or campaign-spending claims
Visible review notices for four unmatched reports, 155 deferred supplements, 41 excluded bank accounts and 24 deposit-sequence omissions
Not included
Outside this release
U.S. House, Governor's Council, General Court, district attorney, register of probate, county, municipal, and local contests
Primary losers and any withdrawn, removed, or replaced candidate absent from the current official general-election roster
Unverified write-in names because Massachusetts does not publish an exhaustive named general-election roster
District public-policy questions numbered 10, 11, or 12
A combined outside-spending total across overlapping annual and miscellaneous archives
A combined statewide campaign total, ultimate funding-source claims, and donor identity joins based only on names
Business, lobbying, contract, land, and conflict-record research
Not yet published
Remaining accounting checks and district coverage
Resolve report-family and whole-account deposit comparisons before adding campaign totals. District and local contests, district public-policy questions and local ballot styles remain outside the statewide candidate guide.
Dataset comparison: State candidate cards preserve their stated source fields and report windows. The Massachusetts disclosure explorer has a distinct bank cash-flow subset and overlapping source schedules. Do not compare bank credits with donations, bank payments with total campaign spending, or report-year scope with a full election cycle. Missing views are not zero.
Version record
Massachusetts guide 2.0
PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown6
Ballot choices15
Ballot measures9
6 statewide candidate contests, 15 printed choices or tickets, 11 OCPF monthly reports, 4 FEC summaries, zero officially rostered named statewide write-ins, 9 statewide ballot questions, zero statewide judicial election items, voter deadlines, and primary sources. The separate money explorer adds 430,054 source rows and report aggregates, verified bank-flow controls and explicit reconciliation limitations.
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Massachusetts guide publication record
Version
Published
Scope
2.0
October 1, 2026
6 statewide candidate contests, 15 printed choices or tickets, 11 OCPF monthly reports, 4 FEC summaries, zero officially rostered named statewide write-ins, 9 statewide ballot questions, zero statewide judicial election items, voter deadlines, and primary sources. The separate money explorer adds 430,054 source rows and report aggregates, verified bank-flow controls and explicit reconciliation limitations.
