General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 53 Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses

• Massachusetts General Laws - Parties entitled to make nominations - Chapter 53, Section 1
  At any primary, caucus or convention held under this chapter, each party having the right to participate in or hold the same may nominate as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nominations and elections; necessity; procedure - Chapter 53, Section 2
  Except in the case of municipal nominations where a city charter or a law applying to a particular town otherwise provides and in the case...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination of person not printed on primary ballot; acceptance; statement of financial interest - Chapter 53, Section 3
  A person whose name is not printed on a state primary ballot as a candidate for an office, but who receives sufficient votes to nominate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conventions to nominate candidates; dates - Chapter 53, Section 4
  No convention to nominate candidates shall be called for or held on a date earlier than four days after the holding of the caucuses for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of nomination; contents; signatures; filing; written acceptance of candidate - Chapter 53, Section 5
  Every certificate of nomination shall state such facts as are required by section eight and shall be signed and sworn to by the presiding officer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; contents; number of signatures; unenrolled candidates - Chapter 53, Section 6
  Nominations of candidates for any offices to be filled at a state election may be made by nomination papers, stating the facts required by section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; signatures; addresses; submission; deadlines; correction procedures; certification and checking; special elections - Chapter 53, Section 7
  Every voter signing a nomination paper shall sign in person as registered or substantially as registered, and shall state the address where he or she...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers for city offices; deadlines; signatures; certification and checking - Chapter 53, Section 7A
  Except where otherwise provided by law, every nomination petition or other like paper of a candidate for a city office in a city wherein preliminary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of nomination and nomination papers; contents; party designation - Chapter 53, Section 8
  All certificates of nomination and nomination papers shall, in addition to the names of candidates, specify as to each, (1) his residence, with street and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of nomination and nomination papers; certification of candidate as registered voter; acceptance procedure - Chapter 53, Section 9
  Certificates of nomination and nomination papers for state offices shall be filed with the state secretary and he shall forthwith issue to the candidate or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers for cities or towns; applicable provisions - Chapter 53, Section 9A
  In any city or town which accepts this section, in a city by vote of the city council subject to the provisions of its charter,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of nomination and nomination papers; time for filing - Chapter 53, Section 10
  All certificates of nomination and nomination papers of candidates for the office of state representative, state senator, executive council, or county office shall be filed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of nomination and nomination papers; objections; filing - Chapter 53, Section 11
  When certificates of nomination and nomination papers have been filed, and are in apparent conformity with the law, they shall be valid unless written objections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 927, Sec. 5 - Chapter 53, Section 12 12A
  Repealed, 1977, 927, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Withdrawal of nominated candidates - Chapter 53, Section 13
  A person nominated as a candidate for any state, city or town office may withdraw his name from nomination by a request signed and duly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death, withdrawal or ineligibility of nominated candidates; filling vacancies; objections - Chapter 53, Section 14
  If a candidate nominated for a state, city or town office dies before the day of election, or withdraws his name from nomination, or is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of nomination to fill vacancy; contents; acceptance - Chapter 53, Section 15
  When a nomination is made to fill a vacancy caused by the death, withdrawal or ineligibility of a candidate, the certificate of nomination shall, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of nomination, etc.; public inspection; preservation - Chapter 53, Section 16
  Certificates of nomination, nomination papers, objections thereto and withdrawals, when filed, shall, under proper regulations, be open to public inspection, and the state secretary and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Blank forms for nominations - Chapter 53, Section 17
  The state secretary shall, upon application, provide blank forms for the nomination of candidates for all state offices; and he shall send blank forms for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure - Chapter 53, Section 17A
  Upon the filing of a petition with the chairman of the state committee of a political party, signed by fifty enrolled members of such party...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proposed amendments to federal constitution; opinion of voters ascertained - Chapter 53, Section 18
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth that the general court, when called upon to act upon a proposed amendment to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonbinding public opinion advisory questions on local ballots - Chapter 53, Section 18A
  As used in this section “governing body” shall mean, in a city, the city council acting with the approval of the mayor subject to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Information relating to questions on city, town or district ballot; contents; written arguments by principal proponents and opponents; public inspection - Chapter 53, Section 18B
  (a) As used in this section “governing body” shall mean, in a city, the city council or board of aldermen acting with the approval of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Questions of public policy submitted in certain districts upon application - Chapter 53, Section 19
  On an application signed by twelve hundred voters in any senatorial district, or by two hundred voters in any representative district, asking for the submission...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications; signatures; identification; certification; submission - Chapter 53, Section 20
  The provisions of law relative to the signing of nomination papers of candidates for state office, and to the identification and certification of names thereon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications; filing deadline; number of questions; resubmission - Chapter 53, Section 21
  Applications shall be filed with the state secretary not later than the first Wednesday of August before the election at which the questions are to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Instructions to representatives; necessity of majority vote - Chapter 53, Section 22
  No vote under the three preceding sections shall be regarded as an instruction under article nineteen of the bill of rights of the constitution of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Signing petitions; forms; receipt; filing date - Chapter 53, Section 22A
  The provisions of law relative to the signing of nomination papers of candidates for state office, and to the identification and certification of names thereon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 124 - Chapter 53, Section 22B
  Repealed, 1985,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sections applicable to all primaries - Chapter 53, Section 23
  Sections twenty-four to forty, inclusive, shall apply to all primaries, except as therein otherwise provided.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of sections relating to elections and corrupt practices - Chapter 53, Section 24
  Primaries shall be subject to all laws relating to elections and corrupt practices therein, so far as applicable and except as otherwise provided in this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Withdrawal of nominations - Chapter 53, Section 25
  Withdrawals of nominations of persons to be voted for at primaries shall be subject to section thirteen, except that the date from which the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 927, Sec. 8 - Chapter 53, Section 26
  Repealed, 1977, 927, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 134, Sec. 4 - Chapter 53, Section 27
  Repealed, 1980, 134, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dates and places for holding primaries - Chapter 53, Section 28
  State primaries shall be held on the seventh Tuesday preceding biennial state elections and on the fourth Tuesday preceding special state elections, except that primaries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of primary officers; compensation - Chapter 53, Section 29
  The city or town clerk may designate two inspectors and two deputy inspectors, representing the two leading political parties, to serve at primaries, and from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of primary officers; wards or towns - Chapter 53, Section 30
  In wards or towns where voting is by precincts at elections but by wards or towns at primaries, the city or town clerk shall designate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ineligibility to act as primary officers - Chapter 53, Section 31
  A person shall not be ineligible to act as a primary officer because he is a candidate for delegate to a convention, or,, a candidate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ballots; preparation; number - Chapter 53, Section 32
  Ballots shall be prepared and provided, and the number thereof determined, in state and presidential primaries by the state secretary, in city and town primaries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ballots; color; specimen ballots - Chapter 53, Section 33
  Ballots for each party shall be printed on paper of a different color from that on which the ballots for any other party are printed....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ballots; contents; arrangement; form - Chapter 53, Section 34
  At the top of each ballot shall be printed the words “Official ballot of the (here shall follow the party name)”. There shall also be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Absentee ballots; application; forms; envelopes; preparation - Chapter 53, Section 34A
  Prior to each biennial or special state primary the state secretary shall prepare in such quantities as he may deem necessary the following papers:— (a)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cross constituting as vote - Chapter 53, Section 35
  A cross (X) marked against a name shall constitute a vote for the person so designated except that no cross shall be required where the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of pasters or stickers - Chapter 53, Section 35A
  Pasters, commonly called stickers, to be used at primaries shall not be more than one half inch in width and four and one half inches...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons nominated by pasters or write-ins; notice - Chapter 53, Section 35B
  The city or town clerk shall forthwith notify a person who appears to have been nominated by means of pasters or write-ins of the necessity...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery of ballots, etc., at polling places; posting specimen ballots - Chapter 53, Section 36
  The city or town clerk, before the opening of the polls on the day of the primary, shall deliver at the polling place to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Party enrollment of voters - Chapter 53, Section 37
  The voting lists used at primaries shall contain the party enrollment of the voters whose names appear thereon established as provided in this section, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Absentee ballots; application; unenrolled voters; recording upon voting lists - Chapter 53, Section 37A
  A voter desiring to vote by absentee ballot in a primary shall specify on his application for the ballot the party with which he is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Party designation of voters and eligibility to vote under party enrollments; certificate to establish, change or cancel enrollment - Chapter 53, Section 38
  [ Text of section effective until August 1, 2015. For text effective August 1, 2015, see below.] No voter enrolled under this section or section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enrolled and unenrolled voters; precinct count - Chapter 53, Section 38A
  The board of registrars of voters of every city or town shall submit to the state secretary a count for each precinct of the number...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counting votes - Chapter 53, Section 39
  In counting votes when the ballots are removed from the ballot box, they shall first be sorted into piles, one for each party, and each...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 176, Sec. 1 - Chapter 53, Section 39A
  Repealed, 1966, 176, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Number of votes necessary to nominate candidate not on ballot - Chapter 53, Section 40
  No person who is a candidate at a primary for nomination for or election to a political office, if no candidate’s name is printed on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petitions for recounts - Chapter 53, Section 40A
  Petitions for recounts of the ballots cast at a primary of a political party may be signed only by registered voters enrolled in such political...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sections applicable to nominations at state primaries - Chapter 53, Section 41
  Primaries shall be held for the nomination of candidates of political parties for all offices to be filled at a state election, except presidential elector....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primaries held by wards, precincts or groups of precincts; notice to state secretary - Chapter 53, Section 42
  In cities or towns where the aldermen or selectmen determine the question of holding state primaries by wards, precincts or groups of precincts, they shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Polls; hours when open - Chapter 53, Section 43
  The polls at every primary shall be open at least thirteen hours. Such hours shall be designated in cities by the aldermen or councillors, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; number of signatures - Chapter 53, Section 44
  The nomination of candidates for nomination at state primaries shall be by nomination papers. In the case of the governor, lieutenant-governor, attorney general and United...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; contents; signatures; acceptance; number of candidates; penalty provisions - Chapter 53, Section 45
  Every nomination paper shall state in addition to the name of the candidate, (1) his residence, with street and number thereof, if any, (2) the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; submission to registrars; certification; correction of district; number of names - Chapter 53, Section 46
  Every nomination paper of a candidate for state office shall be submitted on or before five o’clock post meridian of the twenty-eighth day preceding the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; preparation; availability - Chapter 53, Section 47
  Nomination papers for use in the nomination of candidates to be voted for at state primaries shall be prepared, and on request furnished, by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; certificates of nomination; filing; political party membership; term limits - Chapter 53, Section 48
  Nomination papers of candidates to be voted on at presidential primaries except candidates for state, ward and town committees, shall be filed with the state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 477, Sec. 21 - Chapter 53, Section 48A
  Repealed, 1985, 477, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination in case of withdrawal, death or ineligibility - Chapter 53, Section 49
  If a person nominated to be voted for at a state primary dies before the day of the primary, or withdraws his name from nomination,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies caused by withdrawal; nominations to fill; objections - Chapter 53, Section 50
  In cases of withdrawal, nominations to fill vacancies shall be filed with the state secretary within seventy-two week day hours succeeding five o’clock in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counting ballots - Chapter 53, Section 51
  No ballots cast at a state primary in cities or towns shall be counted until the close of the polls.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Canvass and return of votes; certification and notification of nominees - Chapter 53, Section 52
  Upon receipt of the records of votes cast at state primaries, the city or town clerk shall forthwith canvass the same and within four days...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies caused by ties; filling - Chapter 53, Section 53
  In case of a tie vote where the number of persons receiving equal votes exceeds the number of nominations available, there shall be deemed to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Objections to nominations; withdrawals by nominees - Chapter 53, Section 53A
  When nominations at the state primaries are in apparent conformity with law, they shall be valid unless written objections are made thereto in accordance with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 429, Sec. 5 - Chapter 53, Section 54
  Repealed, 1973, 429, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1939, 473, Sec. 20 - Chapter 53, Section 54A 54B
  Repealed, 1939, 473, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 429, Sec. 5 - Chapter 53, Section 54C 54D
  Repealed, 1973, 429, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primaries for city and town nominations; objections; withdrawals - Chapter 53, Section 55
  The nomination of candidates of political and municipal parties to be voted for at city and town elections, in cities and towns where such nominations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primaries for nomination; submission of question; notice of result to state secretary - Chapter 53, Section 56
  In any city or town which has adopted the provisions of law for nominating by primaries, the following question shall be put on the official...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notices of intention to participate in primaries - Chapter 53, Section 57
  Notices of intention to participate in primaries shall be furnished to the city or town clerk, not later than the thirtieth day prior to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Blank nomination papers; contents - Chapter 53, Section 58
  The city or town clerk shall seasonably prepare, and the city or town shall provide, blank nomination papers for use in the nomination of candidates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nominations on blank nomination papers; signatures; acceptance - Chapter 53, Section 59
  Nominations of candidates for elective offices, to be voted for at a primary, shall be made by nomination papers, as hereinafter provided. Such nominations shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; contents - Chapter 53, Section 60
  Section forty-five shall apply to nomination papers for city and town primaries, except that in towns such nomination papers may contain the names of candidates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; filing; certification; correction of district - Chapter 53, Section 61
  All nomination papers of candidates to be voted for at city or town primaries shall be filed with the city or town clerk not less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death, withdrawal, or ineligibility of candidates; filling vacancies - Chapter 53, Section 62
  If a person nominated to be voted for at a city or town primary dies before the day of the primary, or withdraws his name...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Polls; hours - Chapter 53, Section 63
  The polls at every such primary shall be open during such hours, not less than nine in cities nor four in towns, as may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Returns of votes; canvass and certification - Chapter 53, Section 64
  City and town clerks shall canvass the returns of votes, determine the results, and issue proper certificates thereof to the successful candidates.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 310, Sec. 23 - Chapter 53, Section 65 to 70
  Repealed, 1932, 310, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sections applicable - Chapter 53, Section 70A
  Sections seventy B to seventy H, inclusive, shall apply to presidential primaries.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delegates to national conventions; election; number - Chapter 53, Section 70B
  In any year in which candidates for presidential electors are to be elected, the selection of delegates and alternate delegates to national conventions of political...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primaries by wards, precincts or groups of precincts; notice to state secretary - Chapter 53, Section 70C
  In cities and towns where the question of holding presidential primaries by wards, precincts or groups of precincts is determined by the aldermen or selectmen,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers - Chapter 53, Section 70D
  Nominations of candidates for state, ward and town committee shall be by nomination papers which shall be prepared and, on request, furnished by the state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Order of names on ballots; statement of preference; preferential vote count - Chapter 53, Section 70E
  The state secretary shall cause to be placed on the official ballot for use at presidential primaries the names of those candidates or potential candidates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Canvass of returns; notice; certification; certificates - Chapter 53, Section 70F
  Upon the receipt of the records of the votes cast at presidential primaries and within four days after said primary the city or town clerk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filling vacancies - Chapter 53, Section 70G
  In case of the death, withdrawal or ineligibility of a candidate for state committee, the vacancy may be filled as provided in section forty-nine. In...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of certain other sections - Chapter 53, Section 70H
  The provisions of law relating to primaries and nomination papers consistent with the five preceding sections shall apply to presidential primaries, so far as practicable.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delegates and alternate delegates to national conventions; voting for president on first roll call - Chapter 53, Section 70I
  If there is a roll call vote for president at the national convention of a political party, all delegates and alternate delegates whose selection is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 600, Sec. 20 - Chapter 53, Section 70J
  Repealed, 1975, 600, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1969, 61, Sec. 4 - Chapter 53, Section 70K
  Repealed, 1969, 61, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination at caucuses - Chapter 53, Section 71
  In cities and towns which have not accepted the provisions of law relating to primaries for the nomination of municipal officers, political parties which nominate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations for city or town caucuses - Chapter 53, Section 72
  Each city or town committee may make reasonable regulations, consistent with law, relative to caucuses called by it and to determine membership in the party,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time for holding city or town caucuses - Chapter 53, Section 72A
  Caucuses before regular city or town elections shall be held not later than the thirty-eighth day preceding such city or town elections, notwithstanding any contrary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Caucuses held by precincts or groups of precincts; notice - Chapter 53, Section 73
  If in a city, except Boston, or town wherein elections are held by precincts, the city or town committee of either of the two leading...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Caucuses relative to special elections - Chapter 53, Section 74
  Caucuses relative to a special election shall be held at such time and place and subject to such reasonable notice as the political committee whose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Calling of caucuses; notice - Chapter 53, Section 75
  Every caucus of a political party shall be called by a written or printed notice. No caucus or meeting of a political party not so...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons entitled to vote or take part in caucuses; oath; challenges; penalties - Chapter 53, Section 76
  Notices of caucuses shall apply to all members of the party calling them, and to them only. No person having voted in the caucus of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Balloting; use of voting lists - Chapter 53, Section 77
  In balloting, the voting lists furnished under section sixty-two of chapter fifty-one shall be used as check lists, and no persons shall vote or take...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tie vote for caucus officers - Chapter 53, Section 78
  If there is a tie vote for any caucus officer, the caucus officers elected shall fill the vacancy.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of election; notice of nomination - Chapter 53, Section 79
  The presiding officer and secretary or clerk of each caucus shall within three week days after its final adjournment deliver or send to each caucus...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Returns of caucuses where direct nominations made; tabulation of results; notice; recounts - Chapter 53, Section 80
  Returns of all caucuses of political parties at which are made any direct nominations for a district comprising more than one ward, or where caucuses...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tie votes in direct nominations; filling vacancies - Chapter 53, Section 81
  If there is a tie vote for any candidate of a political party nominated directly for any office, for a district comprising more than one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Polling places provided; notice - Chapter 53, Section 82
  At least two weeks prior to the date on which caucuses are to be held, the chairman or secretary of the city or town committee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of caucuses; procedure - Chapter 53, Section 83
  Notice of caucuses, signed by the chairman and secretary, shall be issued by each city and town committee not less than seven days prior to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Balloting; duration - Chapter 53, Section 84
  A ballot shall be taken for the choice of any candidate, to be selected by such caucus, and the polls shall be kept open at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tie vote for elective office; proceedings - Chapter 53, Section 85
  If a majority of caucus officers is not elected, or there is a tie vote for candidates for an elective office, the caucus shall at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ballots and check lists; transmission to city or town clerk; preservation - Chapter 53, Section 86
  The secretary of each caucus shall forthwith, after the ballots cast therein have been counted, transmit them, with the check list used at the caucus,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contested elections or nominations; preservation of ballots; notice; recount; penalties - Chapter 53, Section 87
  If within three week days after any caucus a person who has received votes thereat for nomination or election to any office shall file a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Calling of caucuses - Chapter 53, Section 88
  All caucuses for the election of caucus officers, or for the nomination of candidates for any city of town office in any city or town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of law for official ballots; calling caucuses; notice - Chapter 53, Section 89
  Any city or town committee shall, at the written request of fifty voters, members of its party, call caucuses of said party to determine by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of acceptance of special provisions; notice - Chapter 53, Section 90
  A political party in a city or town which has accepted said special provisions may, not less than one year after the date of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time of holding caucuses - Chapter 53, Section 91
  All such caucuses of a political party for the choice of candidates for a city or town election, except caucuses relating to a special election,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notices of caucuses; contents - Chapter 53, Section 92
  Notices of caucuses in said cities or towns shall state the place where and the day and hour when nomination papers shall be issued; the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Provision of polling places; voting lines - Chapter 53, Section 93
  At least two weeks prior to the day named for a caucus, the chairman or secretary of the city or town committee shall give notice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice by city or town committees - Chapter 53, Section 94
  At least seven days prior to the day named for a caucus, the city or town committee shall issue a notice that such caucus will...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Blank nomination papers; contents - Chapter 53, Section 95
  The city or town shall provide, and the city or town clerk shall seasonably prepare, for each political party, blank nomination papers for use in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nominations made by nomination papers; acceptance; vacancies - Chapter 53, Section 96
  Nominations of candidates for elective city or town offices and for caucus officers to be voted for at a caucus, shall be made by nomination...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; sealing; filing; opening - Chapter 53, Section 97
  All nomination papers shall be sealed up and filed with the secretary of the city or town committee not less than ten week days previous...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Correction of errors; notice - Chapter 53, Section 98
  The secretary of the city or town committee shall immediately give notice to the person filing the nomination paper of any error, irregularity or informality...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings in cities when papers not filed; filling vacancies - Chapter 53, Section 99
  If, in a city, nomination papers placing persons in nomination for all the offices to be filled at a caucus in any ward are not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings in towns when papers not filed - Chapter 53, Section 100
  If, in a town, nomination papers placing persons in nomination for all the offices to be filled at a caucus are not filed, or upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Withdrawals; filling vacancies - Chapter 53, Section 101
  A person nominated by a nomination paper may, within forty-eight week day hours succeeding five o’clock in the afternoon of the day fixed for opening...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; delivery to city or town clerk - Chapter 53, Section 102
  Not less than seven week days before the day upon which the caucuses are to be held and before five o’clock in the afternoon of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; correction of errors - Chapter 53, Section 103
  If an error or informality is found in any nomination paper, it shall be forthwith returned to the secretary of the committee by whom it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Objections to nomination papers - Chapter 53, Section 104
  Objections to nomination papers, and all other questions relating thereto, shall be considered in cities by the board of registrars, the city clerk and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ballots; provision by cities or towns - Chapter 53, Section 105
  Ballots for each political and municipal party, ballot boxes, voting lists, specimen ballots, blank forms and apparatus, seals and record books, shall be provided and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form of official ballot - Chapter 53, Section 106
  On the back and outside of each ballot when folded shall be printed the words “Official ballot of the (here shall be inserted the party...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of certain laws - Chapter 53, Section 107
  Caucuses, except as otherwise provided, shall be held in general accordance with the laws governing the conduct of elections and the manner of voting thereat.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Order of business - Chapter 53, Section 108
  The order of business shall be as follows: First, Any necessary preliminary business. Second, Balloting until half past eight o’clock in the evening, when the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Challenges - Chapter 53, Section 109
  If the right of a person offering to vote is challenged for any legal cause, and he takes the oath required by section seventy-six, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counting of ballots; announcement of result; sealing; transmittal of records - Chapter 53, Section 110
  Immediately after the polls have been declared closed, but not before, the ballots shall be counted in full view of the voters. When they have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voting lists; certified copies - Chapter 53, Section 111
  The city or town clerk, upon written application signed by at least ten voters of a ward or town, for a copy of a list...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recount of ballots - Chapter 53, Section 112
  If before five o’clock in the afternoon of the second day next succeeding the day of a caucus, ten or more voters of any town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Caucus officers; eligibility; terms; oaths; duties - Chapter 53, Section 113
  At the caucus held for the choice of candidates for a city or town election there shall be chosen annually a warden, a clerk, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies; additional officers - Chapter 53, Section 114
  A majority of the caucus officers present at a caucus may fill temporary vacancies and elect additional officers to serve in that caucus only. Such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of officers for first caucus - Chapter 53, Section 115
  A city or town committee of a political party which has adopted the provisions of law for the use of official ballots shall, at least...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Caucus officers in newly incorporated cities or cities redivided into wards - Chapter 53, Section 116
  In a newly incorporated city, or upon a redivision into wards of a city to which said provisions apply, the caucus officers to serve in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Caucuses to nominate municipal officers; convention delegates; committees - Chapter 53, Section 117
  A caucus of the voters, or of a specified portion thereof in a ward of a city, or in a town, may be called and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of caucus; chairman; order of business - Chapter 53, Section 118
  The notice for a caucus under the preceding section shall be written or printed, shall state the place where, and the day and hour when,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Elections by ballot; written request - Chapter 53, Section 119
  Upon the written request of ten or more voters present at a caucus and entitled to vote therein, presented by a motion or otherwise to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preservation of ballots and voting lists - Chapter 53, Section 120
  The secretary of a caucus held under the three preceding sections shall, at the written request of ten voters entitled to vote in the caucus,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Calling town caucus at annual meeting; rescission; nominations; tie vote - Chapter 53, Section 121
  A town in which official ballots are used, may at any annual meeting vote to hold a town caucus for the nomination of candidates for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regional school district-wide elections; applicable provisions - Chapter 53, Section 122
  The following provisions shall apply to regional school district-wide elections: (a) Any person who is a resident of a member community and is a registered...

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