Code of Massachusetts Regulations
950 CMR - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Title 950 CMR 47.00 - Early Voting Procedures
Section 47.09 - Early Voting in Person
Current through Register 1537, December 20, 2024
(1) Delivery. Upon entering an early voting location in his or her city or town, a voter shall state his or her name and address to the local election official. Upon verification of the registration of a voter at an early voting location for the city or town, the local election official shall provide the voter with the appropriate early voting ballot and accompanying papers and indicate on the early voting list that the voter has been provided an early voting ballot.
If an early voter is listed as inactive, the local election official shall require the early voter to complete an affirmation of current and continuous residence and show identification, as set forth in 950 CMR 53.03(5): Name Dropped or Listed Incorrectly and 54.04(6): Name Dropped or Listed Incorrectly.
(2) Method of Voting. Each early voting location shall have space available for early voters to mark their ballots privately. After marking his or her ballot, each early voter shall enclose it in the envelope provided, execute the affidavit contained thereon and seal the envelope.
(3) Instruction and Assistance to Early Voters.
(4) Spoiled Ballots. If an early voter makes a mistake in marking his or her ballot at an early voting location, the voter shall return the ballot to the local election official and request a new ballot. Voters shall be allowed up to a total of three ballots. Upon receipt of a spoiled ballot, the local election official shall mark it "spoiled" and shall enclose it in a spoiled ballot envelope.
(5) Return of Early Voting Ballot. Each early voter shall return the sealed affidavit envelope containing his or her early voting ballot to the local election official.
(6) Voters shall not remove an early voting ballot from the early voting location.
(7) Upon acceptance of an affidavit envelope containing an early voting ballot, the ballot shall be considered cast and such voter shall not be eligible to vote by mail, in person at an early voting location, or at the polls on Election Day.