Chapter 54 - Elections
- Section 1 - Decennial Division of Cities Into Wards and Precincts
- Section 2 - Division of Cities and Wards Into Voting Precincts; Census; Effect Upon Formation of Congressional, Representative, Senatorial or Councillor Districts
- Section 4 - New Divisions of Cities Into Wards, When Effective; Congressional Districts
- Section 5 - Maps or Descriptions of New Divisions; Publication and Posting
- Section 6 - Division of Towns Into Voting Precincts
- Section 7 - Changes in Voting Precincts of Towns
- Section 7a - Dividing Precincts to Facilitate Voting; Applicable Laws
- Section 8 - Maps or Descriptions of New Precincts; Posting
- Section 9 - Discontinuance of Voting Precincts
- Section 9a - Redivision Into Precincts or Districts; Elections Thereafter; Census
- Section 10 - Changes in Wards; Notice to State Secretary
- Section 11 - Election Officers in Certain Cities
- Section 11a - Deputies
- Section 11b - Filing for Appointment in Cities; Procedure; Eligibility; Examinations
- Section 12 - Election Officers in Towns; Procedure; Eligibility; Examinations
- Section 13 - Party Representation; Term of Office; Removal
- Section 14 - Vacancies; Filling
- Section 15 - Eligibility of Candidates
- Section 16 - Deputies; Duties
- Section 16a - Vacancies; Appointments to Fill
- Section 17 - Ballot Clerks; Duties
- Section 20 - Oath of Office
- Section 22 - Compensation of Election Officers
- Section 23 - Supervisors of Elections; Political Party Representation; Violations
- Section 24 - Designation of Polling Places
- Section 25 - Marking Shelves and Guard Rails
- Section 25a - Display of National Flag
- Section 25b - Early Voting; Application for Early Voting Ballots; Early Voting Period, Sites and Lists; Counting of Early Voting Ballots
- Section 26 - State Ballot Boxes; Furnishing
- Section 27 - Blank Forms and Envelopes for Returns; Injury, Tampering, or Destruction; Penalties
- Section 28 - Care, Custody and Repair of Ballot Boxes, Counting Apparatus, and Voting Machines
- Section 29 - Replacement of Defective, Lost or Destroyed Ballot Boxes
- Section 30 - Voting Place or Precinct Seals; Use and Custody
- Section 30a - Custodians of Voting Machines; Duties; Eligibility
- Section 31 - Sending Ballot Boxes, Blank Forms, and Counting Apparatus to Polls; Installation of Voting Machines; Voters' Authority Certificates
- Section 32 - Examination and Approval of Voting Equipment
- Section 33 - Requirements and Use of Voting Machines, Electronic Voting Systems, and Ballots
- Section 33a - Additional Requirements for Voting Machines
- Section 33b - Use of Voting Machines; Regulations; Mechanical Failures
- Section 33c - Instructions to Voter After Entering Voting Machine Booth; Re-Entry After Voting
- Section 33d - Voting for Persons Not Listed on Ballot Labels of Machine
- Section 33e - Electronic Voting Systems; Marking Implements; Stickers or Pasters on Ballots; Inspection; Instructions to Voters; Write-in Candidates
- Section 33f - Computers and Counting Units; Central Tabulation Centers; Preparation; Testing
- Section 33g - Lease or Purchase of Marking Units or Tabulating Units; Bonds From Manufacturers or Distributors
- Section 33h - Election Officers for Tabulation Center; Tabulation of Votes
- Section 33i - Examination of Electronic Poll Books; Compliance With Minimum Requirements; Approval for Use in Elections
- Section 34 - Use of Voting Machines by Cities and Towns
- Section 35 - Public Exhibition of Voting Machines; Instruction to Voters; Delivery to Polls; Examination
- Section 35a - Challenged or Absent Voting Ballots Where Voting Machines Used; Questions Submitted to Voters
- Section 35b - Casting Challenged Votes Where Voting Machines Used; Counting Votes
- Section 36 - Number of Election Officers Present When Voting Machines Used
- Section 37 - Regulations for Use of Voting Machines, Ballot Boxes, Etc.
- Section 39 - Seller's Bonds; Electronic Voting Systems, Voting Machines or Ballot Boxes
- Section 40 - Preparation and Furnishing
- Section 41 - Names; Residences; Political Designation; Incumbents
- Section 41a - Governor and Lieutenant Governor Candidates; Grouping Party Nominees; Order
- Section 42 - Arrangement of Names; Blank Spaces; Name of City or Town, Etc.
- Section 42a - Questions Submitted to Voters; Designation
- Section 42b - Public Policy Questions; Placement on Ballots
- Section 42c - Deadline for Ballot Questions
- Section 43 - Presidential Electors; Arrangement of Names
- Section 43a - State Elections and Primaries; Officers to Be Elected; Manner and Order of Appearance on Ballots
- Section 44 - Official Ballots
- Section 45 - Number of Ballots Provided; Ballot Labels for Voting Machines
- Section 46 - Packaging Ballots; Record
- Section 47 - Vacancies; Printing Ballots
- Section 48 - Cards of Instruction; Specimen Ballots; Copies of Information for Voters Material
- Section 48a - Voters' Bill of Rights; Postings; Preparation and Revision
- Section 49 - Lists of Candidates; Copies of Proposed Constitutional Amendments or Laws
- Section 50 - City Elections; Posting Names of Candidates
- Section 51 - Town Elections; Posting Names of Candidates
- Section 52 - Lists of Candidates; Questions Submitted to Voters; Availability for Publication; State and City Elections
- Section 53 - Mailing Lists of Voters; Copies of Measures, Summaries, Ballot Question Titles, Statements and Arguments to Voters; Public Examination; Petition for Amendment
- Section 54 - Arguments on Measures; Preparation; Submission, Filing; Printing; Mailing
- Section 58a - General Laws Submitted to Municipal Voters for Acceptance; Form of Question; Filing Date
- Section 59 - Packaging and Delivery to City or Town Clerks
- Section 60 - Duties of City and Town Clerks; Delivery to Polls; Receipts
- Section 61 - Failure to Deliver; Substitute Ballots
- Section 62 - Biennial State Elections
- Section 63 - Calling City and Town Elections; Notice
- Section 64 - Notices or Warrants; Requisites; Time of Opening and Closing Polls
- Section 65 - Activities at Polling Places; Regulations; Penalties
- Section 66 - State Ballot Boxes; Use and Custody
- Section 67 - Voting Lists; Delivery and Use; Voting by Persons Not on List
- Section 67a - Additional State Ballot Boxes; Use in Towns
- Section 68 - Statements Made Before Public Declaration of Vote; Penalties
- Section 69 - Persons Permitted Within Guard Rail
- Section 70 - Number of Voters Permitted Within Guard Rail; Voters in Line at Closing Time
- Section 71 - Presiding Officers; Powers and Duties
- Section 71a - Supervision of Election Officers in Cities and Towns
- Section 72 - Preservation of Order by Police
- Section 73 - Smoking or Intoxicating Liquors in Polling Places Prohibited; Penalties
- Section 74 - Detention of Offenders; Effect on Right to Vote
- Section 75 - Report of Violations; Prosecutions
- Section 76 - Voting; Giving Name and Address Upon Request; Delivery of Ballot
- Section 76b - Failure to Present Voter Identification; Right to Challenge Vote
- Section 76c - Provisional Ballot
- Section 77 - Marking Ballots
- Section 78 - Voting for Presidential Electors, Governor, and Lieutenant Governor; Marking Ballots
- 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 79 - Assistance in Marking Ballots
- Section 80 - Prohibited Markings; Use of Red Pencils or Red Ink by Election Officers
- Section 81 - Spoiled Ballots
- Section 82 - Folding Ballots; Time for Marking Ballots
- Section 83 - Deposit of Ballots, Voting List Check, Endorsement
- Section 84 - Removal of Ballots Before Close of Polls
- Section 85 - Challenge of Person's Right to Vote, Procedures
- Section 85a - Challengers
- Section 86 - Absent or Physically Disabled Voters
- Section 87 - Preparation of Absent Voting Ballots, Envelopes, Instructions
- Section 88 - Distribution of Absent Voting Ballots
- Section 89 - Applications; Seasonably Filed; Spoiled Ballots; Application by Family Member
- Section 91 - Applications; Filing and Certification; Notation on Voting Lists; Posting
- Section 91a - Applications of Specially Qualified Voters
- Section 91b - Delivery of Ballots
- 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
- Section 92 - Method of Voting
- Section 93 - Time for Mailing or Delivering Ballots
- Section 94 - Examination of Ballots; Acceptance or Rejection
- Section 95 - Duties of Election Officers; Deposit of Absent Voting Ballots; Receipt and Counting of Federal Write-in Absentee Ballots
- Section 96 - Challenges
- Section 97 - Immaterial Irregularities
- Section 98 - Absent Voter Unable to Mark Ballot
- Section 99 - Late Ballots; Disposition
- Section 100 - Voting in Person; Death of Absent Voter
- Section 102 - Printed Information and Instructions as to Absent Voting
- Section 103 - Jurisdiction of Courts
- Section 103a - Sections Applicable to City and Town Elections, Primaries and Caucuses, and to Regional Vocational School District Elections
- Section 103p - City or Town Elections; Preliminary Elections or Primaries
- Section 103q - Informality; Liberal Construction
- Section 104 - Use of State Blank Forms and Apparatus; Canvass of Votes
- Section 105 - Proceedings at Close of Polls; Counting Votes; Announcing and Recording Results
- Section 105a - Electronic Voting Methods; Proceedings at Close of Polls; Counting of Ballots; Announcement of Vote; Transportation to Tabulation Center
- Section 106 - Defective Ballots
- Section 107 - Enclosing and Sealing Ballots and Voting Lists; Certification
- Section 108 - Copies of Voting Lists as Checked
- Section 109 - Ballots and Lists; Custody; Disposition
- Section 109a - Audit of Votes Following Presidential General Election
- Section 110 - Rejection of Records
- Section 110a - Central Tabulation Facilities
- Section 111 - Examination of Precinct Records; Errors; Certification
- Section 112 - Copies of Records of Votes to State Secretary
- Section 113 - Unsealed Copies Transmitted to State Secretary; Proceedings
- Section 114 - Endorsement or Memorandum of Receipt
- Section 115 - Copies of Records of Votes to Governor and Council; Examination; Determination of Results
- Section 116 - Certification of Results; Summons; Certificates of Election
- Section 116a - Election of Person Not Listed on State Ballot; Financial Interest Statement
- Section 117 - Return to State Secretary; Laying Before Legislature; Filing
- Section 118 - Presidential Electors; Copies of Records of Votes; Proclamations; Certificate of Election
- Section 119 - Petition to Court for Declaration of Election; Notice; Hearing
- Section 120 - Procedure; Compulsion and Immunity of Witness
- Section 121 - Examination of Records; Certificates of Election; Notice to State Secretary
- Section 122 - Board of Examiners; Duties; Certificates of Election; Notice to State Secretary
- Section 123 - Incomplete Records; New Copies of Returns
- Section 129 - Copies of Returns of Votes; Transmittal to State Secretary
- Section 130 - Number of Ballots Cast; Statement at Length
- Section 131 - Violations; Effect on Records
- Section 132 - Number of Names Checked; Certification
- Section 133 - Number of Registered Voters, etc.; Report
- Section 134 - Contested Elections; Retention of Ballots; Recounts
- Section 135 - Petition for Recount; Filing; Contents; Examination; Recounts; Notice; Amendment of Records
- Section 135a - Recount Where Voting Machines Used; Period During Which Machines Locked and Sealed
- Section 135b - Recount Where Electronic Voting System Used; Petition Specifying Recount by Hand
- Section 136 - Information Regarding Ballots Cast by Challenged Voters
- Section 137 - Election Results in Cities; Declaration Before Recounts; Certificates of Election
- Section 138 - Presidential Electors
- Section 140 - Senators and Representatives in Congress; Vacancies
- Section 141 - Representatives in General Court; Vacancies
- Section 142 - District Attorneys and County Officers
- Section 143 - County Treasurers; Registers of Deeds
- Section 143a - Register of Deeds; Vacancies
- Section 144 - County Commissioners
- Section 145 - Death After Election but Before Term
- Section 146 - Notice to State Secretary
- Section 147 - Elections to Fill Vacancies
- Section 148 - Meetings; Organization; Record of Proceedings
- Section 149 - Compensation
- Section 150 - State Officers
- Section 151 - Presidential Electors
- Section 152 - Senators in Congress
- Section 153 - Representatives in Congress
- Section 154 - District Attorneys
- Section 155 - Clerks of Courts
- Section 156 - Registers of Probate
- Section 157 - Registers of Deeds
- Section 158 - County Commissioners
- Section 159 - Sheriffs
- Section 160 - County Treasurers
- Section 162 - Regional District School Committees Members