Massachusetts residents voted on three ballot measures in Tuesday’s midterm election, rejecting a proposition to limit the ratio of nurses to patients and approving propositions having to do with limiting political spending and protecting the rights of transgender people in the Commonwealth.

Over 500 Massachusetts residents flooded Copley Square Sunday to support the upholding of statewide protections for transgender individuals in the Commonwealth.

Four Massachusetts churches filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in response to an amendment that regulates the...