Massachusetts voting issues

Election and registration information
Locate your polling place

2008 election
For the 2008 election Massachusetts used the following voting machines in addition to hand-counted paper ballots in some counties. For a county-by-county list of the specific machines (and the source for this section) see Verified Voting's Verifier tool.

Optical scan machines:
 * Premier Election Solutions' (Diebold) AccuVote-OS
 * Sequoia Optech III-P Eagle

Assistive Devices for Marking Paper Ballots:
 * Election Systems & Software's AutoMARK Technical Systems AutoMARK VAT

Governmental election authorities
William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth

Elections Division


 * Website: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/

Contact information:
 * Secretary of the Commonwealth
 * Elections Division
 * McCormack Building, Room 1705
 * One Ashburton Place
 * Boston, MA 02108


 * Telephone: (617) 727-2828
 * Toll-Free: 1-800-462-VOTE (8683)
 * Fax: (617) 742-3238

Email: [mailto:elections@sec.state.ma.us elections@sec.state.ma.us]


 * City and town hall addresses

Election threats

 * For an extensive log of voting machine problems, see the VotersUnite! report on election incidents.

State and local non-governmental election organizations
League of Women Voters

LWV of Massachusetts, Diane Jeffery, President
 * 133 Portland St.-Lower Level
 * Boston, MA 02114-0000
 * Phone: 617-523-2999
 * Fax: 617-248-0881
 * E-mail: lwvma@lwvma.org
 * http://www.lwvma.org

Local Leagues:
 * Acton Area
 * Amherst
 * Andover-North Andover
 * Arlington
 * Attleboro
 * Bedford
 * Belmont
 * Beverly
 * Boston
 * Braintree
 * Brookline
 * Cape Ann Area
 * The Cape Cod Area
 * Chelmsford
 * Concord-Carlisle
 * Dover
 * Falmouth
 * Framingham
 * Grafton
 * Greater Haverhill
 * Hamilton-Wenham
 * Harvard
 * Hingham
 * Lexington
 * Lincoln
 * Marblehead
 * Marion
 * Martha's Vineyard
 * Medfield
 * Melrose
 * Milton
 * Natick
 * Needham
 * Newton
 * Northampton Area
 * North Reading
 * Norwood
 * Plymouth Area
 * Sharon-Stoughton
 * Shrewsbury
 * Springfield
 * Sudbury
 * Swampscott
 * Topsfield-Boxford-Middleton
 * Waltham
 * Watertown
 * Wayland
 * Wellesley
 * Westford
 * Weston
 * Westwood
 * Weymouth
 * Williamstown
 * Wilmington
 * Winchester
 * Worcester Area

MassVOTE

Description: Founded in 1999, MassVOTE is a non-partisan voting rights organization. We work with community-based non-profit organizations to increase voter education and turnout across Massachusetts. MassVOTE works to eliminate barriers and encourage voting, especially among communities of color, language minorities, low income communities, youth, new American citizens, and the disabled.


 * Website: http://www.massvote.org/

Resources
 * Registering to Vote
 * Information for New Voters
 * Absentee Voting
 * Rights as a Voter

External resources

 * Where Do I Vote?