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Gov. Maura T. Healey late last week filled out the membership of the State Ballot Law Commission, adding two private sector lobbyists to the panel that could rule on challenges to ballot access ahead of this fall's elections.
Citing a lack of jurisdiction, the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission on Monday rejected calls to remove former president Donald Trump’s name from the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot.
Attorneys for Trump filed his request a day before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission is slated to meet in a prehearing conference to begin considering a pair of objections to Trump’s name appearing on the state’s March 5 primary ballot.
The Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission on Thursday took statements from attorneys, and its members gave no indication of how they could rule on challenges seeking to remove Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot.
The Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission will gather Thursday for what’s known as a pre-hearing conference, a procedural step in which the current three-member panel will decide how to handle the two objections.