The Ballot Commission will now rule on whether to dismiss the case, according to a spokesperson for the secretary of state. Both parties have mutually agreed to cancel a hearing originally scheduled for Friday, they confirmed.

The opposing group, the Committee to Protect Cannabis Regulation, commissioned a pollster to cold-call thousands of people who signed the petition. That phone survey cameafter allegations widely circulated online and in news articles last fall that the anti-pot sales campaign had used misleading tactics to gather over 74,000 signatures to reach the November 2026 ballot.

“The allegations of misleading signature gathering practices raise serious questions about the Petition’s integrity that warrant further scrutiny by the Commission itself,” attorney Thomas Kiley wrote in the filing. He wrote that the ballot initiative is not accused of fraud or forging signatures, despite an earlier filing that stated the campaign “obtained signatures fraudulently.”

Ryan Dominguez, executive director of the marijuana industry trade group the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition and an officer on the committee, said the polling showed “a pattern of deceptive signature gathering practice across multiple communities.”

The campaign behind the ballot initiative petition, Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts, has denied misleading people, though it has also pointed to people being solely responsible for reading whatever they sign.

“We never intended or encouraged or in any way made signature gatherers feel like they should lie about what they were getting signed,” Wendy Wakeman, a spokesperson for the coalition, said. “You’ve got crybabies who are making millions of dollars off of this marijuana business who are complaining that they’re not being treated fairly. And in fact, they are.”

In a response Thursday morning, Patrick Strawbridge, counsel representing the anti-cannabis coalition, again called on the objection to be denied and criticized the “anonymous survey data,” as legally insufficient and “misleading.”

“Even if one pretended that the survey contacted actual signers … the number of individuals who claim they were misled or were not told what they were signing still falls well short of the number required to disqualify the petition,” Strawbridge wrote.

The ballot initiative, spearheaded by members of the Massachusetts GOP who say the effort is independent of their party, would end regulated sales of recreational marijuana, killing an industry that has sold more than $8 billion of pot products since stores opened in 2018. Under the measure, medical marijuana would remain legal, but people could face civil penalties for possession of more than one ounce of cannabis.

Pollster Brian Muldoon organized a call center effort on behalf of the marijuana group, reaching more than 2,300 people who had signed the petition, according to the committee. Of those, the filing said, 1,163 people said they would never have signed the ballot initiative if they knew its purpose was to ban recreational cannabis sales.

Some respondents whose names appeared on the anti-pot shop petition but said they did not remember signing it reported signing petitions that they were told were for initiatives including schools, housing, or fentanyl, the filing said.

Another 601 people said they knowingly signed the initiative to repeal legal pot, the committee said, and 153 who did not know they had signed a marijuana ban said they would still have signed it if they did know.

A public records request made by the cannabis protection committee and included in their filing also revealed 31 complaints about the petition sent to Galvin’s office throughout the fall.

A spokesperson for secretary of state’s office said complaints were answered with information on removing a name from the ballot, a process that closed on Nov. 19 when the repeal initiative submitted signatures to local registrars. In other cases, they were referred to the attorney general’s office, the spokesperson said. The attorney general’s office declined to confirm, deny, or comment on any potential investigations.

Bryan Hecht can be reached at bryan.hecht@globe.com. Follow him on Instagram @bhechtjournalism.