Polls open on Tuesday, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Boston’s local election cycle toggles between higher turnout years, with campaigns for City Council and Mayor, and “off years,” with only a race for the council. But 2023 is shaping up to be one of the “way off” years, when a dearth of expected at-large vacancies and candidates can flatten the curve on voter turnout. As late as July 4,
Facing a May 30 deadline to pass a new map of the nine City Council district boundaries, councillors this week squabbled over the next steps as Mayor Michelle Wu urged them to move quickly and laid out her own map, which unites neighborhoods across the city, including Dorchester’s Neponset, Fields Corner, Uphams Corner, Bowdoin Geneva and Adams Village within District 3.