Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday allowed 12 initiative petitions to move to the next step toward getting on the ballot. Healey disqualified four proposed ballot questions on the grounds that they were unconstitutional.

The potential 2020 ballot question that is generating the most controversy so far — updating the state’s right to repair law to include wirelessly transmitted information — was certified as constitutional.

Another question likely to draw the attention of powerful lobbying interests would allow grocery stores to obtain licenses to sell wine and beer. It would eventually eliminate the cap on how many alcohol licenses one retailer could own.

A proposal to implement ranked choice voting, where voters rank candidates in order of preference, by 2022 was also certified.

Overall, Healey approved 10 ballot questions for the November 2020 ballot and another two constitutional amendments, which cannot reach the ballot until 2022.

Other proposed ballot questions that were certified would require safe storage of guns; limit political donations by out-of-state residents; prevent Massachusetts from becoming a “sanctuary state” for immigrants without legal status; change the way the state sets reimbursement rates for nursing homes; ban the use of electric shock as punishment or as a way to modify behavior for people with disabilities; and limit sick leave payouts to 1,000 hours of unused time for state employees who leave their jobs.

Question proponents have until Dec. 4 to gather at least 80,239 signatures. The Legislature will then have a chance to act on the proposals before they go on the ballot in November 2020.

There are also two proposed constitutional amendments.

One would restore the right to vote to convicted felons.

The other would ban public funding of abortion.

The constitutional amendments must be approved by a vote of at least 25% of two joint sessions of the Legislature before they can go on the ballot in November 2022.

The four rejected initiative petitions include:

A proposal would have replaced the party primary system with a system where all candidates appear on the ballot, regardless of party, and the top two advance to the general election. The petition would also have expanded the state’s early voting, which is now used only for general elections, to primaries.

State law does not allow a ballot question to include two separate subjects. Healey said replacing the party primary and expanding early voting are two distinct policy shifts that cannot appear as part of a single ballot question.

A second election-related initiative petition that was rejected would have established that corporations are not people, and corporations’ political contributions can be regulated.

Healey said this would impinge on the rights of corporations, as established by the Supreme Judicial Court. “The SJC has conclusively held that certain non-human entities possess rights of free speech, liberty of the press, and peaceable assembly that may not be abridged” by an initiative petition, she wrote.

Healey rejected a petition that would have created a commission to look at reducing the risks of technology. She said the language of the proposal was too broad, because it required the commission to draft legislation on a wide range of topics such as environmental health, free speech, liberty, science, government corruption and others. It was also not in proper form.

Healey also rejected a petition to regulate whale fishing because advocates did not meet the initial signature requirements.