After seeing how voting by mail helped lead to a record number of voters casting ballots in the 2020 election, Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday he.
Secretary William Galvin. (Sam Doran/SHNS)
After seeing how voting by mail helped lead to a record number of voters casting ballots in the 2020 election, Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday he would file legislation this month to make the option a permanent fixture of the Massachusetts voting system.
Galvin said his bill would also expand in-person early voting and implement same-day voter registration in Massachusetts, allowing eligible voters who need to register or update their voting information to do so at the polls on Election Day before casting their ballot.
Currently, voters must be registered at least 20 days before Election Day in order to vote. Galvin s bill would let anyone who missed the deadline to register on Election Day at the polls, but not during the intervening period, and voters would not be permitted to change party affiliation on the day of the primary.
Galvin Proposes Permanent Mail-In, Early Voting in Mass. Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday he would file legislation this month to make the option a permanent fixture of the Massachusetts voting system. By State House News Service •
Published February 10, 2021
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After seeing how voting by mail helped lead to a record number of voters casting ballots in the 2020 election, Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday he would file legislation this month to make the option a permanent fixture of the Massachusetts voting system.
Galvin said his bill would also expand in-person early voting and implement same-day voter registration in Massachusetts, allowing eligible voters who need to register or update their voting information to do so at the polls on Election Day before casting their ballot.
State House Roundup: Vaccine site delivers headaches
Matt Murphy
BOSTON - Sweet dreams are not made of weeks like these. In fact, for a technocrat like Gov. Charlie Baker, they can be the stuff of nightmares.
The logistics of trying to vaccinate at least 4 million people as fast as humanly possible is no easy feat. Layer on top of that the fact that there s not nearly enough vaccine to go around, and it s a recipe for restless nights.
But political leaders often deal with things out of their control by managing expectations. And last week, that s where things started to break down.