Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VIII - Elections

Section 15 - Board of Registrars in Certain Cities and Towns; Appointment; Term of Office - Section 15. Except as provided in section seventeen, there shall...

Section 16a - Board of Election Commissioners; Powers and Duties; Members; Appointment; Term of Office - Section 16A. In every city except Cambridge and every town...

Section 17 - Board of Registrars in Certain Cities; Appointment; Term of Office - Section 17. In every city, other than one having a...

Section 17a - Annual Training on State and Federal Election Laws and Regulations - Section 17A. In each municipality, the city or town clerk...

Section 18 - Political Representation by Board of Registrars - Section 18. In the original and in each succeeding appointment...

Section 19 - Unequal Political Representation; Notice and Hearing - Section 19. If, upon written complaint to the mayor or...

Section 20 - Vacancies in Board of Registrars; Temporary Registrars - Section 20. If there is a vacancy in the board...

Section 21 - Registrars; Term of Office - Section 21. Each registrar shall, unless sooner removed, hold his...

Section 22 - Assistant Registrars in Cities and Towns; Appointment; Term; Political Representation - Section 22. The registrars in cities and towns may appoint...

Section 22a - Absent Registration Officers; Appointment; Political Representation; Physically Disabled Registrants - Section 22A. In every city and town the registrars of...

Section 23 - Registrars, Assistant Registrars and Absent Registration Officers; Oath of Office; Compensation - Section 23. The registrars, assistant registrars and absent registration officers...

Section 24 - Powers and Duties - Section 24. The registrars may cause the duties devolving upon...

Section 25 - Registrars; Assistant Registrars; Compatibility of Offices - Section 25. Every person appointed as a registrar or assistant...

Section 26 - Registration Sessions - [ Text of section effective until July 22, 2022. For...

Section 26a - High School Voter Challenge Program - Section 26A. (a) The state secretary, in consultation with the...

Section 28 - Last Day for Registration - [ Text of section effective until July 22, 2022. For...

Section 31 - Final Day for Registration - Section 31. If the final day for registration of voters...

Section 32 - Places and Hours of Sessions; Notices - Section 32. Registrars shall seasonably post or publish notices stating...

Section 33 - Affidavits of Registration - Section 33. Any registrar, at such places as may be...

Section 33a - Online Completion of Affidavit of Registration - [ Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For...

Section 34 - Persons Not Registered at Close of Registration - Section 34. After eight o'clock in the evening of a...

Section 35 - Omitted Listings Compared With Annual Register of Voters; Exceptions - Section 35. Except in any city or town as to...

Section 36 - Affidavit of Voter Registration; Distribution; Expenses - Section 36. The state secretary shall prepare in sufficient quantity...

Section 37 - Annual Register; Omitted Names; Notice - Section 37. The registrars, as soon as they have prepared...

Section 37a - Inactive Voters List - Section 37A. The name and address of a voter that...

Section 38 - Revisions and Corrections of Registers, Etc. - Section 38. The registrars shall, upon the personal application of...

Section 40 - Public Sessions; Inspection of Records - Section 40. The registrars shall perform their duties in open...

Section 41 - Preservation of Documents - Section 41. The registrars shall preserve all written applications, complaints,...

Section 41a - Duties Imposed by Secs. 10a and 37 in Cities Not Having Registrars - Section 41A. The duties imposed by sections ten A and...

Section 42 - Affidavit of Registration; Exception - Section 42. Registration as a voter shall be by affidavit...

Section 42a - Physically Disabled Applicants - Section 42A. Any person claiming to have the qualifications for...

Section 42c - Registration Sessions in High Schools and Vocational Schools - Section 42C. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 42d - Registration Sessions in Regional High Schools, Colleges or Universities - Section 42D. The registrars or election commissioners may hold registration...

Section 42e - Voter Registration Affidavit Forms for College, High School and Vocational School Students - Section 42E. All public and independent colleges, universities, high schools...

Section 42f - Affidavits of Registration From Registrants Residing in Other Cities or Towns - Section 42F. At every registration session held pursuant to this...

Section 42g - Transmission of Completed Affidavits to City or Town Where Registrant Resides; Cooperative Agreements - Section 42G. (a) Registration agencies required to provide voter registration...

Section 42g1/2 - Automatic Voter Registration Agencies; Data Sharing - Section 42G1/2. (a)(1) For purposes of this section and section...

Section 42h - Receipt of Completed Affidavit by Registrar - Section 42H. Registrars of voters in cities and towns shall...

Section 44 - Completion of Affidavit of Voter Registration Form - Section 44. A person seeking to register shall complete an...

Section 45a - Production of Naturalization Papers for Inspection; Notation - Section 45A. An applicant for registration may produce papers of...

Section 46 - Affidavit of Registration; Filing; Addition of Voter's Name to Annual Register - Section 46. Upon receipt of a completed affidavit of registration,...

Section 46a - Transmittal of Duplicate Certificate of Registration to Place of Voter's Last Registration - Section 46A. Except as provided in section forty-seven, the registrars,...

Section 47 - Rejection of Defective Affidavit of Registration; Notices to Person Named - Section 47. If, after examination of an affidavit of registration,...

Section 47a - Pre-Registration of Persons Having Obtained the Age of 16 - Section 47A. If, after examination of an affidavit of registration,...

Section 47b - False Statements in Affidavit of Registration; Complaint and Summons; Examination of Qualifications - Section 47B. If at any time subsequent to the registration...

Section 47c - Central Registry of Voters; Agreement With Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. - Section 47C. Subject to appropriation, the state secretary shall maintain...

Section 48 - Complaint; Time for Filing; Summons and Service of Process - Section 48. Upon complaint signed and sworn to by a...

Section 49 - Examination of Persons Summoned; Status for Annual Register; Failure to Appear - Section 49. If a person summoned before the registrars to...

Section 50 - Supplementary Registration - Section 50. Any legal resident of the commonwealth who was...

Section 51 - Certificate of Supplementary Registration; Voting Thereon - Section 51. To every person registered under section fifty the...

Section 51a - Confidential Registration Certificate - Section 51A. To every person whose affidavit of voter registration...

Section 52 - Duties of Registrars - Section 52. A registrar shall enforce regularity in all proceedings...

Section 52a - Solicitation of Votes and Distribution of Campaign Literature in Registration Offices Prohibited; Penalties - Section 52A. No candidate for public office, or any person...

Section 53 - Police Assistance at Meetings - Section 53. The board of police or officer in charge...

Section 54 - Supervisors of Registration; Appointment; Duties; Interference With Supervisors; Penalties - Section 54. The governor, with the advice and consent of...

Section 55 - Preparation of Voting Lists; Contents and Arrangement; Distribution; Revisions - Section 55. Registrars shall, from the names entered in the...

Section 57 - Posting of Lists; Copies for State Political Committees - Section 57. They shall, at least twenty days before the...

Section 58 - New Names Added to Lists; Distribution of Copies; Posting or Publication - Section 58. If a new name is added to the...

Section 59 - Certificate in Case of Omissions or Clerical Errors; Voting Procedure - Section 59. Whenever the name of a voter, appearing at...

Section 60 - Voting Lists for Use at Polls - Section 60. Before every election and meeting in a city...

Section 61 - Certification of Registered Voters - Section 61. They shall forthwith, after the final day for...

Section 62 - Certified Copies for Use at Caucus; Party Enrollment Designations - Section 62. When a caucus is called, the registrars, on...

Section 63 - Lists Furnished for New Wards and Voting Precincts - Section 63. After the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 64 - Online Portal for Verification of Registration or Pre-Registration Status - Section 64. The state secretary shall create and maintain an...

Section 65 - Administration of Automatic Voter Registration; Duties of Registrars Upon Receipt of Electronic Records; Electronic Interfaces; Annual Reports; Opting Out; Liability of Ineligible Persons Registered Under This Section; Use of Information... - Section 65. (a) For purposes of this section, the term...

Section 66 - Provision of Data to State Secretary for Maintenance of Voter Lists; Provision of Data to Electronic Registration Information Center, inc.; Centralized Data Management - Section 66. The registry of motor vehicles, and any other...

Chapter 52 - Political Committees

Section 1 - State Committees; Election; Organization; Terms; Vacancies - Section 1. Each political party shall, in the manner herein...

Section 2 - Ward and Town Committees; Elections; Terms - Section 2. Each political party shall, in every ward and...

Section 3 - City Committees - Section 3. The members of the several ward committees of...

Section 4 - City, Ward and Town Committees; Organization; Failure to Elect or Organize - Section 4. Each city, ward and town committee shall within...

Section 5 - Lists of Officers, Members and Associate Members; Acceptance of Office of Treasurer; Filing - Section 5. The secretary of each city, ward and town...

Section 6 - Vacancies - Section 6. A vacancy in the office of chairman, secretary...

Section 7 - Disposition of Funds Upon Redivision of City Into Wards - Section 7. Upon the redivision of a city into wards...

Section 8 - Election of Existing Committees - Section 8. Each committee existing at the time when the...

Section 9 - Ward and Town Committees; Number of Members to Be Elected at Presidential Primaries; Notice - Section 9. Ward and town committees, respectively, shall fix the...

Section 10 - Rules and Regulations - Section 10. A state, city or town committee may make...

Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses

Section 1 - Parties Entitled to Make Nominations - Section 1. At any primary, caucus or convention held under...

Section 2 - Nominations and Elections; Necessity; Procedure - Section 2. Except in the case of municipal nominations where...

Section 3 - Nomination of Person Not Printed on Primary Ballot; Acceptance; Statement of Financial Interest - Section 3. A person whose name is not printed on...

Section 4 - Conventions to Nominate Candidates; Dates - Section 4. No convention to nominate candidates shall be called...

Section 5 - Certificate of Nomination; Contents; Signatures; Filing; Written Acceptance of Candidate - Section 5. Every certificate of nomination shall state such facts...

Section 6 - Nomination Papers; Contents; Number of Signatures; Unenrolled Candidates - Section 6. Nominations of candidates for any offices to be...

Section 7 - Nomination Papers; Signatures; Addresses; Submission; Deadlines; Correction Procedures; Certification and Checking; Special Elections - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 7a - Nomination Papers for City Offices; Deadlines; Signatures; Certification and Checking - Section 7A. Except where otherwise provided by law, every nomination...

Section 8 - Certificates of Nomination and Nomination Papers; Contents; Party Designation - Section 8. All certificates of nomination and nomination papers shall,...

Section 9 - Certificate of Nomination and Nomination Papers; Certification of Candidate as Registered Voter; Acceptance Procedure - Section 9. Certificates of nomination and nomination papers for state...

Section 9a - Nomination Papers for Cities or Towns; Applicable Provisions - Section 9A. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 10 - Certificates of Nomination and Nomination Papers; Time for Filing - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 11 - Certificates of Nomination and Nomination Papers; Objections; Filing - Section 11. When certificates of nomination and nomination papers have...

Section 13 - Withdrawal of Nominated Candidates - Section 13. A person nominated as a candidate for any...

Section 14 - Death, Withdrawal or Ineligibility of Nominated Candidates; Filling Vacancies; Objections - Section 14. If a candidate nominated for a state, city...

Section 15 - Certificate of Nomination to Fill Vacancy; Contents; Acceptance - Section 15. When a nomination is made to fill a...

Section 16 - Certificates of Nomination, etc.; Public Inspection; Preservation - Section 16. Certificates of nomination, nomination papers, objections thereto and...

Section 17 - Blank Forms for Nominations - Section 17. The state secretary shall, upon application, provide blank...

Section 17a - Procedure - Section 17A. Upon the filing of a petition with the...

Section 18 - Proposed Amendments to Federal Constitution; Opinion of Voters Ascertained - Section 18. It is hereby declared to be the policy...

Section 18a - Nonbinding Public Opinion Advisory Questions on Local Ballots - Section 18A. As used in this section ''governing body'' shall...

Section 18b - Information Relating to Questions on City, Town or District Ballot; Contents; Written Arguments by Principal Proponents and Opponents; Public Inspection - Section 18B. (a) As used in this section ''governing body''...

Section 19 - Questions of Public Policy Submitted in Certain Districts Upon Application - Section 19. On an application signed by twelve hundred voters...

Section 20 - Applications; Signatures; Identification; Certification; Submission - Section 20. The provisions of law relative to the signing...

Section 21 - Applications; Filing Deadline; Number of Questions; Resubmission - Section 21. Applications shall be filed with the state secretary...

Section 22 - Instructions to Representatives; Necessity of Majority Vote - Section 22. No vote under the three preceding sections shall...

Section 22a - Signing Petitions; Forms; Receipt; Filing Date - Section 22A. The provisions of law relative to the signing...

Section 23 - Sections Applicable to All Primaries - Section 23. Sections twenty-four to forty, inclusive, shall apply to...

Section 24 - Applicability of Sections Relating to Elections and Corrupt Practices - Section 24. Primaries shall be subject to all laws relating...

Section 25 - Withdrawal of Nominations - Section 25. Withdrawals of nominations of persons to be voted...

Section 28 - Dates and Places for Holding Primaries - Section 28. State primaries shall be held on the seventh...

Section 29 - Designation of Primary Officers; Compensation - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 30 - Designation of Primary Officers; Wards or Towns - Section 30. In wards or towns where voting is by...

Section 31 - Ineligibility to Act as Primary Officers - Section 31. A person shall not be ineligible to act...

Section 32 - Ballots; Preparation; Number - Section 32. Ballots shall be prepared and provided, and the...

Section 33 - Ballots; Color; Specimen Ballots - Section 33. Ballots for each party shall be printed on...

Section 34 - Ballots; Contents; Arrangement; Form - Section 34. At the top of each ballot shall be...

Section 34a - Absentee Ballots; Application; Forms; Envelopes; Preparation - Section 34A. Prior to each biennial or special state primary...

Section 35 - Cross Constituting as Vote - Section 35. A cross (X) marked against a name shall...

Section 35a - Use of Pasters or Stickers - Section 35A. Pasters, commonly called stickers, to be used at...

Section 35b - Persons Nominated by Pasters or Write-Ins; Notice - Section 35B. The city or town clerk shall forthwith notify...

Section 36 - Delivery of Ballots, etc., at Polling Places; Posting Specimen Ballots - Section 36. The city or town clerk, before the opening...

Section 37 - Party Enrollment of Voters - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 37a - Absentee Ballots; Application; Unenrolled Voters; Recording Upon Voting Lists - Section 37A. A voter desiring to vote by absentee ballot...

Section 38 - Party Designation of Voters and Eligibility to Vote Under Party Enrollments; Certificate to Establish, Change or Cancel Enrollment - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 38a - Enrolled and Unenrolled Voters; Precinct Count - Section 38A. The board of registrars of voters of every...

Section 39 - Counting Votes - Section 39. In counting votes when the ballots are removed...

Section 40 - Number of Votes Necessary to Nominate Candidate Not on Ballot - Section 40. No person who is a candidate at a...

Section 40a - Petitions for Recounts - Section 40A. Petitions for recounts of the ballots cast at...

Section 41 - Sections Applicable to Nominations at State Primaries - Section 41. Primaries shall be held for the nomination of...

Section 42 - Primaries Held by Wards, Precincts or Groups of Precincts; Notice to State Secretary - Section 42. In cities or towns where the aldermen or...

Section 43 - Polls; Hours When Open - Section 43. The polls at every primary shall be open...

Section 44 - Nomination Papers; Number of Signatures - Section 44. The nomination of candidates for nomination at state...

Section 45 - Nomination Papers; Contents; Signatures; Acceptance; Number of Candidates; Penalty Provisions - Section 45. Every nomination paper shall state in addition to...

Section 46 - Nomination Papers; Submission to Registrars; Certification; Correction of District; Number of Names - Section 46. Every nomination paper of a candidate for state...

Section 47 - Nomination Papers; Preparation; Availability - Section 47. Nomination papers for use in the nomination of...

Section 48 - Nomination Papers; Certificates of Nomination; Filing; Political Party Membership; Term Limits - Section 48. Nomination papers of candidates to be voted on...

Section 49 - Nomination in Case of Withdrawal, Death or Ineligibility - Section 49. If a person nominated to be voted for...

Section 50 - Vacancies Caused by Withdrawal; Nominations to Fill; Objections - Section 50. In cases of withdrawal, nominations to fill vacancies...

Section 51 - Counting Ballots - Section 51. No ballots cast at a state primary in...

Section 52 - Canvass and Return of Votes; Certification and Notification of Nominees - Section 52. Upon receipt of the records of votes cast...

Section 53 - Vacancies Caused by Ties; Filling - Section 53. In case of a tie vote where the...

Section 53a - Objections to Nominations; Withdrawals by Nominees - Section 53A. When nominations at the state primaries are in...

Section 55 - Primaries for City and Town Nominations; Objections; Withdrawals - Section 55. The nomination of candidates of political and municipal...

Section 56 - Primaries for Nomination; Submission of Question; Notice of Result to State Secretary - Section 56. In any city or town which has adopted...

Section 57 - Notices of Intention to Participate in Primaries - Section 57. Notices of intention to participate in primaries shall...

Section 58 - Blank Nomination Papers; Contents - Section 58. The city or town clerk shall seasonably prepare,...

Section 59 - Nominations on Blank Nomination Papers; Signatures; Acceptance - Section 59. Nominations of candidates for elective offices, to be...

Section 60 - Nomination Papers; Contents - Section 60. Section forty-five shall apply to nomination papers for...

Section 61 - Nomination Papers; Filing; Certification; Correction of District - Section 61. All nomination papers of candidates to be voted...

Section 62 - Death, Withdrawal, or Ineligibility of Candidates; Filling Vacancies - Section 62. If a person nominated to be voted for...

Section 63 - Polls; Hours - Section 63. The polls at every such primary shall be...

Section 64 - Returns of Votes; Canvass and Certification - Section 64. City and town clerks shall canvass the returns...

Section 70a - Sections Applicable - Section 70A. Sections seventy B to seventy H, inclusive, shall...

Section 70b - Delegates to National Conventions; Election; Number - Section 70B. In any year in which candidates for presidential...

Section 70c - Primaries by Wards, Precincts or Groups of Precincts; Notice to State Secretary - Section 70C. In cities and towns where the question of...

Section 70d - Nomination Papers - Section 70D. Nominations of candidates for state, ward and town...

Section 70e - Order of Names on Ballots; Statement of Preference; Preferential Vote Count - Section 70E. The state secretary shall cause to be placed...

Section 70f - Canvass of Returns; Notice; Certification; Certificates - Section 70F. Upon the receipt of the records of the...

Section 70g - Filling Vacancies - Section 70G. In case of the death, withdrawal or ineligibility...

Section 70h - Applicability of Certain Other Sections - Section 70H. The provisions of law relating to primaries and...

Section 70i - Delegates and Alternate Delegates to National Conventions; Voting for President on First Roll Call - Section 70I. If there is a roll call vote for...

Section 71 - Nomination at Caucuses - Section 71. In cities and towns which have not accepted...

Section 72 - Regulations for City or Town Caucuses - Section 72. Each city or town committee may make reasonable...

Section 72a - Time for Holding City or Town Caucuses - Section 72A. Caucuses before regular city or town elections shall...

Section 73 - Caucuses Held by Precincts or Groups of Precincts; Notice - Section 73. If in a city, except Boston, or town...

Section 74 - Caucuses Relative to Special Elections - Section 74. Caucuses relative to a special election shall be...

Section 75 - Calling of Caucuses; Notice - Section 75. Every caucus of a political party shall be...

Section 76 - Persons Entitled to Vote or Take Part in Caucuses; Oath; Challenges; Penalties - Section 76. Notices of caucuses shall apply to all members...

Section 77 - Balloting; Use of Voting Lists - Section 77. In balloting, the voting lists furnished under section...

Section 78 - Tie Vote for Caucus Officers - Section 78. If there is a tie vote for any...

Section 79 - Certificate of Election; Notice of Nomination - Section 79. The presiding officer and secretary or clerk of...

Section 80 - Returns of Caucuses Where Direct Nominations Made; Tabulation of Results; Notice; Recounts - Section 80. Returns of all caucuses of political parties at...

Section 81 - Tie Votes in Direct Nominations; Filling Vacancies - Section 81. If there is a tie vote for any...

Section 82 - Polling Places Provided; Notice - Section 82. At least two weeks prior to the date...

Section 83 - Notice of Caucuses; Procedure - Section 83. Notice of caucuses, signed by the chairman and...

Section 84 - Balloting; Duration - Section 84. A ballot shall be taken for the choice...

Section 85 - Tie Vote for Elective Office; Proceedings - Section 85. If a majority of caucus officers is not...

Section 86 - Ballots and Check Lists; Transmission to City or Town Clerk; Preservation - Section 86. The secretary of each caucus shall forthwith, after...

Section 87 - Contested Elections or Nominations; Preservation of Ballots; Notice; Recount; Penalties - Section 87. If within three week days after any caucus...

Section 88 - Calling of Caucuses - Section 88. All caucuses for the election of caucus officers,...

Section 89 - Adoption of Law for Official Ballots; Calling Caucuses; Notice - Section 89. Any city or town committee shall, at the...

Section 90 - Revocation of Acceptance of Special Provisions; Notice - Section 90. A political party in a city or town...

Section 91 - Time of Holding Caucuses - Section 91. All such caucuses of a political party for...

Section 92 - Notices of Caucuses; Contents - Section 92. Notices of caucuses in said cities or towns...

Section 93 - Provision of Polling Places; Voting Lines - Section 93. At least two weeks prior to the day...

Section 94 - Notice by City or Town Committees - Section 94. At least seven days prior to the day...

Section 95 - Blank Nomination Papers; Contents - Section 95. The city or town shall provide, and the...

Section 96 - Nominations Made by Nomination Papers; Acceptance; Vacancies - Section 96. Nominations of candidates for elective city or town...

Section 97 - Nomination Papers; Sealing; Filing; Opening - Section 97. All nomination papers shall be sealed up and...

Section 98 - Correction of Errors; Notice - Section 98. The secretary of the city or town committee...

Section 99 - Proceedings in Cities When Papers Not Filed; Filling Vacancies - Section 99. If, in a city, nomination papers placing persons...

Section 100 - Proceedings in Towns When Papers Not Filed - Section 100. If, in a town, nomination papers placing persons...

Section 101 - Withdrawals; Filling Vacancies - Section 101. A person nominated by a nomination paper may,...

Section 102 - Nomination Papers; Delivery to City or Town Clerk - Section 102. Not less than seven week days before the...

Section 103 - Nomination Papers; Correction of Errors - Section 103. If an error or informality is found in...

Section 104 - Objections to Nomination Papers - Section 104. Objections to nomination papers, and all other questions...

Section 105 - Ballots; Provision by Cities or Towns - Section 105. Ballots for each political and municipal party, ballot...

Section 106 - Form of Official Ballot - Section 106. On the back and outside of each ballot...

Section 107 - Applicability of Certain Laws - Section 107. Caucuses, except as otherwise provided, shall be held...

Section 108 - Order of Business - Section 108. The order of business shall be as follows:...

Section 109 - Challenges - Section 109. If the right of a person offering to...

Section 110 - Counting of Ballots; Announcement of Result; Sealing; Transmittal of Records - Section 110. Immediately after the polls have been declared closed,...

Section 111 - Voting Lists; Certified Copies - Section 111. The city or town clerk, upon written application...

Section 112 - Recount of Ballots - Section 112. If before five o'clock in the afternoon of...

Section 113 - Caucus Officers; Eligibility; Terms; Oaths; Duties - Section 113. At the caucus held for the choice of...

Section 114 - Vacancies; Additional Officers - Section 114. A majority of the caucus officers present at...

Section 115 - Appointment of Officers for First Caucus - Section 115. A city or town committee of a political...

Section 116 - Caucus Officers in Newly Incorporated Cities or Cities Redivided Into Wards - Section 116. In a newly incorporated city, or upon a...

Section 117 - Caucuses to Nominate Municipal Officers; Convention Delegates; Committees - Section 117. A caucus of the voters, or of a...

Section 118 - Notice of Caucus; Chairman; Order of Business - Section 118. The notice for a caucus under the preceding...

Section 119 - Elections by Ballot; Written Request - Section 119. Upon the written request of ten or more...

Section 120 - Preservation of Ballots and Voting Lists - Section 120. The secretary of a caucus held under the...

Section 121 - Calling Town Caucus at Annual Meeting; Rescission; Nominations; Tie Vote - Section 121. A town in which official ballots are used,...

Section 122 - Regional School District-Wide Elections; Applicable Provisions - Section 122. The following provisions shall apply to regional school...

Chapter 54 - Elections

Section 1 - Decennial Division of Cities Into Wards and Precincts - Section 1. In the year 2001, and every tenth year...

Section 2 - Division of Cities and Wards Into Voting Precincts; Census; Effect Upon Formation of Congressional, Representative, Senatorial or Councillor Districts - Section 2. Each city shall be divided into convenient voting...

Section 4 - New Divisions of Cities Into Wards, When Effective; Congressional Districts - Section 4. All regular municipal elections and primaries held in...

Section 5 - Maps or Descriptions of New Divisions; Publication and Posting - Section 5. When a ward has been divided into new...

Section 6 - Division of Towns Into Voting Precincts - Section 6. In the year 2001 and every tenth year...

Section 7 - Changes in Voting Precincts of Towns - Section 7. Upon its own initiative a board of selectmen...

Section 7a - Dividing Precincts to Facilitate Voting; Applicable Laws - Section 7A. Any precinct in a town where town meeting...

Section 8 - Maps or Descriptions of New Precincts; Posting - Section 8. When a town has been divided into voting...

Section 9 - Discontinuance of Voting Precincts - Section 9. Any town of fewer than 6,200 inhabitants may...

Section 9a - Redivision Into Precincts or Districts; Elections Thereafter; Census - Section 9A. All regular municipal elections and primaries held in...

Section 10 - Changes in Wards; Notice to State Secretary - Section 10. When wards of a city have been changed...

Section 11 - Election Officers in Certain Cities - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 11a - Deputies - Section 11A. In any city subject to section eleven, the...

Section 11b - Filing for Appointment in Cities; Procedure; Eligibility; Examinations - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 12 - Election Officers in Towns; Procedure; Eligibility; Examinations - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 13 - Party Representation; Term of Office; Removal - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 14 - Vacancies; Filling - [ Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For...

Section 15 - Eligibility of Candidates - Section 15. No person shall, at a state, city or...

Section 16 - Deputies; Duties - Section 16. If a warden, clerk or inspector is absent...

Section 16a - Vacancies; Appointments to Fill - Section 16A. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 17 - Ballot Clerks; Duties - Section 17. At state elections in cities and in towns,...

Section 20 - Oath of Office - Section 20. Every election officer before entering upon the performance...

Section 22 - Compensation of Election Officers - Section 22. Election officers shall receive such compensation as the...

Section 23 - Supervisors of Elections; Political Party Representation; Violations - Section 23. Upon the written petition of ten qualified voters...

Section 24 - Designation of Polling Places - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 25 - Marking Shelves and Guard Rails - Section 25. The aldermen or selectmen shall cause each polling...

Section 25a - Display of National Flag - Section 25A. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 25b - Early Voting; Application for Early Voting Ballots; Early Voting Period, Sites and Lists; Counting of Early Voting Ballots - [Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For text...

Section 26 - State Ballot Boxes; Furnishing - Section 26. The state secretary shall, at the expense of...

Section 27 - Blank Forms and Envelopes for Returns; Injury, Tampering, or Destruction; Penalties - Section 27. The state secretary shall provide every city and...

Section 28 - Care, Custody and Repair of Ballot Boxes, Counting Apparatus, and Voting Machines - Section 28. The clerk of each city or town shall...

Section 29 - Replacement of Defective, Lost or Destroyed Ballot Boxes - Section 29. If a state ballot box becomes defective or...

Section 30 - Voting Place or Precinct Seals; Use and Custody - Section 30. The city or town clerk shall furnish to...

Section 30a - Custodians of Voting Machines; Duties; Eligibility - Section 30A. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of section thirteen, where...

Section 31 - Sending Ballot Boxes, Blank Forms, and Counting Apparatus to Polls; Installation of Voting Machines; Voters' Authority Certificates - Section 31. Every city and town clerk shall send to...

Section 32 - Examination and Approval of Voting Equipment - Section 32. The state secretary shall examine all types of...

Section 33 - Requirements and Use of Voting Machines, Electronic Voting Systems, and Ballots - Section 33. Voting machines shall furnish convenient, simple and satisfactory...

Section 33a - Additional Requirements for Voting Machines - Section 33A. Voting machines shall be provided with convenient spaces,...

Section 33b - Use of Voting Machines; Regulations; Mechanical Failures - Section 33B. During the period the polls are open for...

Section 33c - Instructions to Voter After Entering Voting Machine Booth; Re-Entry After Voting - Section 33C. If any voter, after he has enclosed himself...

Section 33d - Voting for Persons Not Listed on Ballot Labels of Machine - Section 33D. Every vote cast for any person whose name...

Section 33e - Electronic Voting Systems; Marking Implements; Stickers or Pasters on Ballots; Inspection; Instructions to Voters; Write-in Candidates - Section 33E. If there is an approved electronic voting system...

Section 33f - Computers and Counting Units; Central Tabulation Centers; Preparation; Testing - Section 33F. If the system employed makes use of a...

Section 33g - Lease or Purchase of Marking Units or Tabulating Units; Bonds From Manufacturers or Distributors - Section 33G. If any special marking units or special tabulating...

Section 33h - Election Officers for Tabulation Center; Tabulation of Votes - Section 33H. For any tabulation center designated under section thirty-three...

Section 33i - Examination of Electronic Poll Books; Compliance With Minimum Requirements; Approval for Use in Elections - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 34 - Use of Voting Machines by Cities and Towns - Section 34. A city or town may, by vote of...

Section 35 - Public Exhibition of Voting Machines; Instruction to Voters; Delivery to Polls; Examination - Section 35. The body, board or official charged with the...

Section 35a - Challenged or Absent Voting Ballots Where Voting Machines Used; Questions Submitted to Voters - Section 35A. At polling places where voting machines are used...

Section 35b - Casting Challenged Votes Where Voting Machines Used; Counting Votes - Section 35B. If the right of a person offering to...

Section 36 - Number of Election Officers Present When Voting Machines Used - Section 36. In any election when voting machines are used...

Section 37 - Regulations for Use of Voting Machines, Ballot Boxes, Etc. - Section 37. The state secretary shall promulgate regulations governing the...

Section 39 - Seller's Bonds; Electronic Voting Systems, Voting Machines or Ballot Boxes - Section 39. When an electronic voting system, voting machines or...

Section 40 - Preparation and Furnishing - Section 40. All ballots for use in elections of state...

Section 41 - Names; Residences; Political Designation; Incumbents - Section 41. Ballots for the use of voters in a...

Section 41a - Governor and Lieutenant Governor Candidates; Grouping Party Nominees; Order - Section 41A. The surnames of candidates for the offices of...

Section 42 - Arrangement of Names; Blank Spaces; Name of City or Town, Etc. - Section 42. Except as provided in section forty-one A, under...

Section 42a - Questions Submitted to Voters; Designation - Section 42A. The state secretary and the city or town...

Section 42b - Public Policy Questions; Placement on Ballots - Section 42B. When a question to be submitted to the...

Section 42c - Deadline for Ballot Questions - Section 42C. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 43 - Presidential Electors; Arrangement of Names - Section 43. The names of the candidates for presidential electors...

Section 43a - State Elections and Primaries; Officers to Be Elected; Manner and Order of Appearance on Ballots - Section 43A. At state elections and primaries at which any...

Section 44 - Official Ballots - Section 44. The official ballots shall, except as otherwise provided...

Section 45 - Number of Ballots Provided; Ballot Labels for Voting Machines - Section 45. One set of ballots, not less than one...

Section 46 - Packaging Ballots; Record - Section 46. Ballots, in convenient numbers, shall be arranged in...

Section 47 - Vacancies; Printing Ballots - Section 47. If a vacancy occurs or is declared in...

Section 48 - Cards of Instruction; Specimen Ballots; Copies of Information for Voters Material - Section 48. The state secretary in state elections, city clerks...

Section 48a - Voters' Bill of Rights; Postings; Preparation and Revision - Section 48A. The state secretary shall provide a voters' bill...

Section 49 - Lists of Candidates; Copies of Proposed Constitutional Amendments or Laws - Section 49. The state secretary, at least five days before...

Section 50 - City Elections; Posting Names of Candidates - Section 50. At least four days before a city election,...

Section 51 - Town Elections; Posting Names of Candidates - Section 51. In towns using official ballots the town clerk,...

Section 52 - Lists of Candidates; Questions Submitted to Voters; Availability for Publication; State and City Elections - Section 52. Before every state election, the state secretary shall...

Section 53 - Mailing Lists of Voters; Copies of Measures, Summaries, Ballot Question Titles, Statements and Arguments to Voters; Public Examination; Petition for Amendment - Section 53. The election commissioners in the city of Boston,...

Section 54 - Arguments on Measures; Preparation; Submission, Filing; Printing; Mailing - Section 54. The state secretary shall cause to be printed...

Section 58a - General Laws Submitted to Municipal Voters for Acceptance; Form of Question; Filing Date - Section 58A. Whenever any provision of the General Laws, submitted...

Section 59 - Packaging and Delivery to City or Town Clerks - Section 59. Ballots for state elections shall be enclosed in...

Section 60 - Duties of City and Town Clerks; Delivery to Polls; Receipts - Section 60. The city or town clerk, on the day...

Section 61 - Failure to Deliver; Substitute Ballots - Section 61. If the ballots provided for any polling place...

Section 62 - Biennial State Elections - Section 62. The biennial state election for the choice of...

Section 63 - Calling City and Town Elections; Notice - Section 63. Elections of state officers and city officers shall...

Section 64 - Notices or Warrants; Requisites; Time of Opening and Closing Polls - Section 64. Notices or warrants for state and city elections...

Section 65 - Activities at Polling Places; Regulations; Penalties - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 66 - State Ballot Boxes; Use and Custody - Section 66. The state ballot boxes shall be used for...

Section 67 - Voting Lists; Delivery and Use; Voting by Persons Not on List - [Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For text...

Section 67a - Additional State Ballot Boxes; Use in Towns - Section 67A. If the selectmen so vote, more than one...

Section 68 - Statements Made Before Public Declaration of Vote; Penalties - Section 68. No election officer shall, before the public declaration...

Section 69 - Persons Permitted Within Guard Rail - Section 69. No persons except the election officers, supervisors, custodians...

Section 70 - Number of Voters Permitted Within Guard Rail; Voters in Line at Closing Time - Section 70. No more than four voters, besides election officers...

Section 71 - Presiding Officers; Powers and Duties - Section 71. The presiding officer at each polling place shall...

Section 71a - Supervision of Election Officers in Cities and Towns - Section 71A. Election officers in cities and in towns shall...

Section 72 - Preservation of Order by Police - [Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For text...

Section 73 - Smoking or Intoxicating Liquors in Polling Places Prohibited; Penalties - Section 73. Any person who, during an election or town...

Section 74 - Detention of Offenders; Effect on Right to Vote - Section 74. If a person at an election refuses to...

Section 75 - Report of Violations; Prosecutions - Section 75. Every election officer shall forthwith report every violation...

Section 76 - Voting; Giving Name and Address Upon Request; Delivery of Ballot - Section 76. Each voter desiring to vote at a polling...

Section 76b - Failure to Present Voter Identification; Right to Challenge Vote - Section 76B. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a...

Section 76c - Provisional Ballot - Section 76C. (a) Whenever a person asserting a right to...

Section 77 - Marking Ballots - Section 77. The voter on receiving his ballot shall, without...

Section 78 - Voting for Presidential Electors, Governor, and Lieutenant Governor; Marking Ballots - Section 78. In order to vote for presidential electors, the...

Section 78a - List of Candidates for Electors Pledged to Presidential Candidates Other Than Those on Official Ballot; Written Acceptances; Filing; Certification; Form of Write-in or Sticker Vote - Section 78A. In any year in which presidential electors are...

Section 79 - Assistance in Marking Ballots - Section 79. A voter who states to the presiding officer...

Section 80 - Prohibited Markings; Use of Red Pencils or Red Ink by Election Officers - Section 80. Except as authorized by this chapter, no voter,...

Section 81 - Spoiled Ballots - Section 81. If a voter spoils a ballot, he may...

Section 82 - Folding Ballots; Time for Marking Ballots - Section 82. Before leaving the marking compartment the voter shall...

Section 83 - Deposit of Ballots, Voting List Check, Endorsement - [Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For text...

Section 84 - Removal of Ballots Before Close of Polls - Section 84. No person shall remove any ballot from the...

Section 85 - Challenge of Person's Right to Vote, Procedures - Section 85. If in any state, city or town election...

Section 85a - Challengers - Section 85A. The state committee of a political party may...

Section 86 - Absent or Physically Disabled Voters - Section 86. Any voter who during the hours that polling...

Section 87 - Preparation of Absent Voting Ballots, Envelopes, Instructions - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 88 - Distribution of Absent Voting Ballots - Section 88. The state secretary shall retain for his own...

Section 89 - Applications; Seasonably Filed; Spoiled Ballots; Application by Family Member - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 91 - Applications; Filing and Certification; Notation on Voting Lists; Posting - Section 91. When an application for an official absent voting...

Section 91a - Applications of Specially Qualified Voters - Section 91A. A specially qualified voter, as defined in section...

Section 91b - Delivery of Ballots - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 91c - Absentee Ballot for Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, or Uocava, Voter; Entering Application for Ballot Into Voter Registration Information System; Transmission of Absentee Ballot - [Text of section effective until December 1, 2022. For text...

Section 92 - Method of Voting - [ Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A,...

Section 93 - Time for Mailing or Delivering Ballots - [Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. For text...

Section 94 - Examination of Ballots; Acceptance or Rejection - Section 94. The city or town clerk or a person...

Section 95 - Duties of Election Officers; Deposit of Absent Voting Ballots; Receipt and Counting of Federal Write-in Absentee Ballots - [First paragraph effective until June 22, 2022. For text effective...

Section 96 - Challenges - Section 96. All ballots transmitted under any provision of sections...

Section 97 - Immaterial Irregularities - Section 97. No ballot transmitted under any provision of sections...

Section 98 - Absent Voter Unable to Mark Ballot - Section 98. An absent voter who because of blindness or...

Section 99 - Late Ballots; Disposition - Section 99. All envelopes received by clerks of cities and...

Section 100 - Voting in Person; Death of Absent Voter - [Text of section effective until June 22, 2022. Repealed by...

Section 102 - Printed Information and Instructions as to Absent Voting - Section 102. The state secretary shall prepare for the use...

Section 103 - Jurisdiction of Courts - Section 103. The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have...

Section 103a - Sections Applicable to City and Town Elections, Primaries and Caucuses, and to Regional Vocational School District Elections - Section 103A. Sections eighty-six to one hundred and three Q,...

Section 103p - City or Town Elections; Preliminary Elections or Primaries - Section 103P. The provisions of this section shall apply to...

Section 103q - Informality; Liberal Construction - Section 103Q. No mere informality in the manner or carrying...

Section 104 - Use of State Blank Forms and Apparatus; Canvass of Votes - Section 104. The blank forms and apparatus provided by the...

Section 105 - Proceedings at Close of Polls; Counting Votes; Announcing and Recording Results - Section 105. Procedures at any precinct where an electronic voting...

Section 105a - Electronic Voting Methods; Proceedings at Close of Polls; Counting of Ballots; Announcement of Vote; Transportation to Tabulation Center - Section 105A. At any precinct using an approved electronic voting...

Section 106 - Defective Ballots - Section 106. If the use of a state ballot box...

Section 107 - Enclosing and Sealing Ballots and Voting Lists; Certification - Section 107. The presiding officer at every polling place at...

Section 108 - Copies of Voting Lists as Checked - Section 108. At any time after the election, upon written...

Section 109 - Ballots and Lists; Custody; Disposition - Section 109. City and town clerks shall retain in their...

Section 109a - Audit of Votes Following Presidential General Election - [Section impacted by 2020, 45, Secs. 1 and 1A, as...

Section 110 - Rejection of Records - Section 110. No record of votes cast or copy thereof...

Section 110a - Central Tabulation Facilities - Section 110A. The returns transmitted under section one hundred and...

Section 111 - Examination of Precinct Records; Errors; Certification - Section 111. The city or town clerk shall forthwith after...

Section 112 - Copies of Records of Votes to State Secretary - Section 112. The clerk of each city and town and...

Section 113 - Unsealed Copies Transmitted to State Secretary; Proceedings - Section 113. If any such copy transmitted to the state...

Section 114 - Endorsement or Memorandum of Receipt - Section 114. The state secretary shall cause the date of...

Section 115 - Copies of Records of Votes to Governor and Council; Examination; Determination of Results - Section 115. The state secretary shall lay before the governor...

Section 116 - Certification of Results; Summons; Certificates of Election - Section 116. The governor shall, in the presence of at...

Section 116a - Election of Person Not Listed on State Ballot; Financial Interest Statement - Section 116A. Any person whose name does not appear on...

Section 117 - Return to State Secretary; Laying Before Legislature; Filing - Section 117. After such certification, such copies shall be replaced...

Section 118 - Presidential Electors; Copies of Records of Votes; Proclamations; Certificate of Election - Section 118. The copies of the records of votes for...

Section 119 - Petition to Court for Declaration of Election; Notice; Hearing - Section 119. Any person who appears, by the proclamation of...

Section 120 - Procedure; Compulsion and Immunity of Witness - Section 120. The petitioner and the contestant may appear and...

Section 121 - Examination of Records; Certificates of Election; Notice to State Secretary - Section 121. The county commissioners to whom the copies of...

Section 122 - Board of Examiners; Duties; Certificates of Election; Notice to State Secretary - Section 122. In each county, except Suffolk and Nantucket, the...

Section 123 - Incomplete Records; New Copies of Returns - Section 123. If it shall appear to the governor and...

Section 129 - Copies of Returns of Votes; Transmittal to State Secretary - Section 129. City and town clerks shall, within fifteen days...

Section 130 - Number of Ballots Cast; Statement at Length - Section 130. The whole number of ballots cast at elections...

Section 131 - Violations; Effect on Records - Section 131. A violation by a public officer or election...

Section 132 - Number of Names Checked; Certification - Section 132. The city or town clerk shall, within fifteen...

Section 133 - Number of Registered Voters, etc.; Report - Section 133. The state secretary shall before February first of...

Section 134 - Contested Elections; Retention of Ballots; Recounts - Section 134. If a person who has received votes for...

Section 135 - Petition for Recount; Filing; Contents; Examination; Recounts; Notice; Amendment of Records - Section 135. A petition for a recount may be filed...

Section 135a - Recount Where Voting Machines Used; Period During Which Machines Locked and Sealed - Section 135A. For recounts of any election in an election...

Section 135b - Recount Where Electronic Voting System Used; Petition Specifying Recount by Hand - Section 135B. The recount of the votes cast in any...

Section 136 - Information Regarding Ballots Cast by Challenged Voters - Section 136. No officer recounting ballots shall, except as required...

Section 137 - Election Results in Cities; Declaration Before Recounts; Certificates of Election - Section 137. The city clerk shall not declare the result...

Section 138 - Presidential Electors - Section 138. If, upon examination of the copies of the...

Section 140 - Senators and Representatives in Congress; Vacancies - Section 140. (a) Upon failure to choose a senator or...

Section 141 - Representatives in General Court; Vacancies - Section 141. Upon a vacancy in the office of representative...

Section 142 - District Attorneys and County Officers - Section 142. Upon failure to choose a district attorney, clerk...

Section 143 - County Treasurers; Registers of Deeds - Section 143. Upon failure to choose a county treasurer or...

Section 143a - Register of Deeds; Vacancies - Section 143A. Upon a vacancy by removal or otherwise in...

Section 144 - County Commissioners - Section 144. Upon failure to choose a county commissioner, the...

Section 145 - Death After Election but Before Term - Section 145. If a person elected to any of the...

Section 146 - Notice to State Secretary - Section 146. The county commissioners in each county shall forthwith...

Section 147 - Elections to Fill Vacancies - Section 147. At elections held because of a failure to...

Section 148 - Meetings; Organization; Record of Proceedings - Section 148. The persons chosen as presidential electors shall meet...

Section 149 - Compensation - Section 149. Each elector shall receive from the commonwealth three...

Section 150 - State Officers - Section 150. At the biennial state election there shall be...

Section 151 - Presidential Electors - Section 151. At the biennial state election in each year...

Section 152 - Senators in Congress - Section 152. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 153 - Representatives in Congress - Section 153. At each biennial state election a representative in...

Section 154 - District Attorneys - Section 154. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 155 - Clerks of Courts - Section 155. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 156 - Registers of Probate - Section 156. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 157 - Registers of Deeds - Section 157. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 158 - County Commissioners - Section 158. There shall be chosen by the voters of...

Section 159 - Sheriffs - Section 159. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 160 - County Treasurers - Section 160. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred...

Section 162 - Regional District School Committees Members - Section 162. At the biennial state elections, members of regional...

Section 25c - Correctional Facility; Voting - [Text of section added by 2022, 92, Sec. 10 effective...

Chapter 54a - Election of Certain City and Town Officers by Proportional Representation or Preferential Voting - [Repealed, 1972, 596, Sec. 2.]

Chapter 55 - Disclosure and Regulation of Campaign Expenditures and Contributions

Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. For the purpose of this chapter, unless a...

Section 2 - Accounts of Contributions and Expenditures; Violations; Penalties - Section 2. Every candidate shall keep detailed accounts of all...

Section 3 - Director of Campaign and Political Finance; Selection; Term; Powers and Duties; Judicial Review of Decisions; Procedure for Violations; Penalties; Disclosure of Fund Transfers - Section 3. The state chairman of each of the two...

Section 5 - Political Committees; Statement of Organization; Officers; Duties; Expenditures; Incorporation; Penalties - Section 5. Each political committee shall organize by filing with...

Section 5a - Elected Public Officials; Principal Officers of Political Action Committees - Section 5A. No candidate or individual holding elective public office...

Section 5b - Names or Phrases Identifying Political Committees in Organizational Statements - Section 5B. (a) Every political committee, other than a political...

Section 5c - Online Training Program for Treasurers of Political Committees - Section 5C. The office of campaign and political finance shall...

Section 6 - Restrictions on Expenditures; Penalties - Section 6. A political committee organized or operating on behalf...

Section 6a - Contributions From Political Action Committees; Limitations - Section 6A. A candidate and such candidate's committee shall not...

Section 6b - Ballot Question Committee; Contributions - Section 6B. A ballot question committee may receive, pay and...

Section 7 - Receipts, Disbursements and Contributions Regulated; Limitations; Penalties - Section 7. No person or combination of persons, including a...

Section 7a - Campaign Contributions to Candidates From Individuals; Limitation; Contributions From Legislative and Executive Agents; Contributions From Gaming Licensee - Section 7A. (a)(1) An individual may make campaign contributions to...

Section 8 - Political Contributions by Corporations; Penalties - Section 8. No corporation carrying on the business of a...

Section 8a - Media Organization Offering Time and Space to Qualified Candidates at No Cost or Reduced Price; Limitations - Section 8A. (1) As used in this section the following...

Section 9 - Contributions and Expenditures Over $50 or $100; Use of Credit or Debit Card by Committee; Penalties - Section 9. No individual, candidate or political committee, or person...

Section 9a - Contributions by Electronic Means; Acceptance by Political Action Committees; Authorization Cards - Section 9A. A political action committee may accept contributions of...

Section 9b - Joint Contributions to Be Attributed Equally to Each Contributor When Unspecified; Rules and Regulations for Joint Contributions - Section 9B. (a) Any joint contribution received by a candidate...

Section 10 - Name and Address of Donor; Disclosure; Penalties - Section 10. No person shall, directly or indirectly, make a...

Section 10a - Treatment of Contributions to Candidates Through Intermediaries or Conduits - Section 10A. (a) Contributions made by a person to or...

Section 11 - Solicitations From Candidates Prohibited; Exception; Penalties - Section 11. No person, no political committee and no person...

Section 12 - Soliciting of Money for Nomination Papers Prohibited; Penalties - Section 12. No political committee, and no person acting under...

Section 13 - Solicitation or Receipt of Political Campaign Contributions by Appointive Public Officers or Employees Prohibited; Exception; Penalties - Section 13. No person employed for compensation, other than an...

Section 14 - Soliciting Contributions in Public Buildings Prohibited; Penalties - Section 14. No person shall in any building or part...

Section 15 - Political Contributions by Public Officers or Employees Restricted; Penalties - Section 15. No officer, clerk or other person in the...

Section 16 - Requiring Political Contributions or Services of Persons in Public Service Prohibited; Penalty - Section 16. No person in the public service shall, for...

Section 16a - Obligation to Make Political Contribution or Render Political Service; Penalty - Section 16A. No person doing business with the commonwealth shall,...

Section 16b - Obligation to Make Political Contributions or Render Political Service by Persons Employed for Compensation; Penalties - Section 16B. No person employed for compensation shall be under...

Section 17 - Public Service Status of Officers or Employees Protected Relative to Political Contributions; Penalty - Section 17. No officer or employee of the commonwealth or...

Section 18 - Reports of Contributions and Expenditures; Persons Required to File; Contents; Reporting Periods; Time Limits; Penalties - Section 18. (a) Each candidate and each treasurer of a...

Section 18a - Reports of Independent Expenditures - Section 18A. (a) Every individual, group, association, corporation, labor union,...

Section 18b - Candidate or Elected Official Sponsoring Fund Raising Event on Behalf of Non-Resident Candidate; Reports of Contributions; Penalty - Section 18B. Each candidate or elected official who sponsors a...

Section 18c - Electronic Reporting System for Campaign Finance Reports and Financial Activity Statements - Section 18C. (a) The director shall develop an electronic reporting...

Section 18d - Expenditures Paid by or to Vendors on Behalf of Political Committee or on Behalf of Individual or Group Required to File Report of Ballot Question Expenditures - Section 18D. (a) For the purposes of this section the...

Section 18e - Legal Defense, Inauguration or Recount Funds - Section 18E. (a) Legal defense funds may be created by...

Section 18f - Electioneering Communication Expenditures - Section 18F. Every individual, group, association, corporation, labor union or...

Section 18g - Independent Expenditure or Electioneering Communication; Disclosure Statement Regarding Identity of Financially Responsible Individual or Entity; Form; Disclosure of Top Contributors; Penalty for Violation - Section 18G. An independent expenditure or electioneering communication made by...

Section 19 - Campaign Funds; Designation of Depository - Section 19. (a) Candidates for state office or for county...

Section 22 - Persons or Corporations Making Contributions; Filing of Reports With Director; Penalties - Section 22. Any person or the treasurer of a corporation,...

Section 22a - Expenditures for Political Purpose; Report; Punishment for Violation; Examination of Accounts - Section 22A. The treasurer of any city, town, or other...

Section 23 - Persons Acting for Political Committees; Accounts and Vouchers to Treasurers - Section 23. Whoever, acting under the authority or in behalf...

Section 24 - Place for Filing Statements or Reports; Signing - Section 24. If the statement or report required to be...

Section 25 - Preservation of Statements and Reports by Director; Public Inspection and Reproduction - Section 25. The director shall retain all statements and reports...

Section 26 - Preservation of Statements and Reports by City or Town Clerk; Public Inspection and Reproduction; Posting of Campaign Finance Reports Required by Sec. 18 on Website - Section 26. The city or town clerk shall retain all...

Section 27 - Furnishing Forms for Statements and Reports, and Summary of Chapter - Section 27. The director shall make available to city and...

Section 28 - Inspection of Statements and Reports; Delinquencies; Notice; Filing - Section 28. The clerk of cities and towns shall inspect...

Section 29 - Failure to File Statement, Report or Affidavit; Notice to and Duties of Director and Attorney General - Section 29. Upon failure to file a statement, report or...

Section 30 - Courts' Authority to Compel Filing of Statements - Section 30. The supreme judicial or superior court may compel...

Section 31 - Immunity of Witnesses - Section 31. No person compelled to testify in any proceedings...

Section 32 - Corrupt Practices by Candidate Defined - Section 32. A candidate shall be deemed to have committed...

Section 33 - Election Petitions for Corrupt Practices; Procedure - Section 33. (a) If the attorney general or five or...

Section 34 - Application of Preceding Sections - Section 34. Sections one to thirty-three, inclusive, shall apply to...

Section 35 - Inquests Upon Complaint for Violations - Section 35. Upon a complaint subscribed and sworn to by...

Section 36 - Conduct of Inquests - Section 36. The court may exclude all persons whose presence...

Section 37 - Witnesses; Attendance; Process; Fees - Section 37. Such court or attorney may issue subpoenas for...

Section 38 - Stenographer - Section 38. Such court may employ a stenographer and may...

Section 39 - Witnesses; Binding Over to Superior Court - Section 39. The court may bind over, as in criminal...

Section 40 - Apprehension of Offenders - Section 40. If a person charged by the report with...

Section 41 - Witnesses; Compulsory Testimony; Immunity - Section 41. No person shall be excused from testifying or...

Section 42 - Forwarding Certified Copy of Record of Final Judgment or Conviction to City or Town Clerk; Disqualification of Defendant as Voter - Section 42. The director in proceedings based upon an election...

Chapter 55a - The Massachusetts Clean Elections Law - [Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 43(C).]

Chapter 55b - The State Ballot Law Commission

Section 1 - Establishment and Membership of Commission - Section 1. There shall be a state ballot law commission...

Section 2 - Members Holding or Nominated for Public Office - Section 2. No member of said commission shall hold any...

Section 3 - Compensation; Record of Proceedings; Clerical Assistance - Section 3. The members of the commission shall each be...

Section 4 - Powers and Duties of Commission - Section 4. The commission may investigate upon objection made in...

Section 5 - Objections; Federal, State, and County Offices - Section 5. Objections to certificates of nomination and nomination papers...

Section 6 - Signatures; Review; Correction - Section 6. This section applies only to candidates for president...

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Massachusetts General Laws Part I - Administration of the Government Title VIII - Elections

Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VIII - Elections