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