Hebert v. State Ballot Law Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming a decision of the State Ballot Law Commission (Commission), that there were sufficient valid signatures on an initiative petition for a law “limiting state and local taxation and expenditures” (also known as Proposition 21/2), despite objections filed by the plaintiff pursuant to G. L. c. 55B, *276§ 5.2 The parties filed a statement of agreed facts, and the record of the proceedings before the Commission, including the transcript and exhibits, was admitted in evidence. We affirm.

The following facts are undisputed. The petition as filed contained 1,173…