Browse as ListSearch Within- Section 54:1 - Decennial division of cities into wards and precincts
- Section 54:2 - Division of cities and wards into voting precincts; census; effect upon formation of congressional, representative, senatorial or councillor districts
- Section 54:4 - New divisions of cities into wards, when effective; congressional districts
- Section 54:5 - Map or description of new divisions; publication and posting
- Section 54:6 - Division of towns into voting precincts; census; report
- Section 54:7 - Change of voting precincts in towns
- Section 54:7A - Dividing precincts to facilitate voting; laws applicable
- Section 54:8 - Maps or descriptions of new precincts; posting
- Section 54:9 - Discontinuance of voting precincts
- Section 54:9A - Congressional, representative, senatorial or councillor districts in certain towns; decennial census; revision of precincts
- Section 54:10 - Notice of changes in wards to state secretary
- Section 54:11 - Election officers in certain cities
- Section 54:11A - Deputies
- Section 54:11B - Filing for appointment in cities; procedure; eligibility; examinations, etc
- Section 54:12 - Election officers in towns
- Section 54:13 - Party representation; term of office; removal
- Section 54:14 - Vacancies; filling
- Section 54:15 - Eligibility of candidates
- Section 54:16 - Deputies; duties
- Section 54:16A - Vacancies; appointments by city or town clerks to fill
- Section 54:17 - Ballot clerks; duties
- Section 54:20 - Oath of office
- Section 54:22 - Compensation of election officers
- Section 54:23 - Supervisors of elections; political party representation
- Section 54:24 - Designation of polling places
- Section 54:25 - Marking shelves and guard rails
- Section 54:25A - Display of national flag
- Section 54:25B - Early voting
- Section 54:25C - Incarcerated voters
- Section 54:26 - State ballot boxes; furnishing
- Section 54:27 - Blank forms and envelopes for returns; furnishing; tampering, etc., penalties
- Section 54:28 - Care, custody and repair of ballot boxes, voting machines, etc
- Section 54:29 - Replacement of defective ballot boxes, etc
- Section 54:30 - Voting place or precinct seals; use and custody
- Section 54:30A - Custodians of voting machines; duties; eligibility
- Section 54:31 - Sending ballot boxes, etc., to polls; installing voting machines; voters' authority certificates
- Section 54:32 - Examination and approval of voting equipment
- Section 54:33 - Requirements and use of voting machines, electronic voting systems and ballots
- Section 54:33A - Additional requirements of voting machines
- Section 54:33B - Voting machines; regulations; mechanical failures
- Section 54:33C - Instructions to voter after entering voting machine booth; re-entry after voting
- Section 54:33D - Voting for persons not listed on ballot labels of machine
- Section 54:33E - Electronic voting systems; marking implements; stickers or pasters on ballots; inspection; instructions to voters; write in candidates
- Section 54:33F - Computers and counting units; central tabulation centers; preparation; testing
- Section 54:33G - Lease or purchase of marking units or tabulating units; bonds of manufacturers or distributors
- Section 54:33H - Election officers for tabulation center; tabulation of votes
- Section 54:33I - Examiniation of all types of electronic poll books; minimum requirements; approval for use
- Section 54:34 - Use of voting machines by cities and towns
- Section 54:35 - Public exhibition of voting machines and instruction to voters; delivery to polls; examination by candidates; etc
- Section 54:35A - Challenged or absent voting ballots where voting machines used; questions submitted to voters
- Section 54:35B - Casting challenged votes where voting machines used; counting votes
- Section 54:36 - Number of election officers when voting machines used
- Section 54:37 - Regulations governing approval of voting equipment, ballots, and voting procedures
- Section 54:39 - Seller's bonds; electronic voting system, voting machines or ballot boxes
- Section 54:40 - Preparation and furnishing of ballots
- Section 54:41 - Names; residences; political designations; incumbents
- Section 54:41A - Governor and lieutenant governor candidates; grouping party nominees; order
- Section 54:42 - Arrangement of names; blank spaces; name of city or town, etc
- Section 54:42A - Question submitted to voters; designation
- Section 54:42B - Public policy questions; requisite notice
- Section 54:42C - Time limit for final written notice of ballot questions
- Section 54:43 - Presidential electors; arrangement of names, etc
- Section 54:43A - State elections and primaries; officers to be elected; manner and order of appearance on ballots
- Section 54:44 - Official ballots
- Section 54:45 - Number of ballots provided; ballot labels for voting machines
- Section 54:46 - Packaging ballots; record
- Section 54:47 - Vacancies; printing ballots
- Section 54:48 - Cards of instruction; specimen ballots; copies of information for voters material
- Section 54:48A - Voters' bill of rights
- Section 54:49 - Lists of candidates; copies of proposed constitutional amendments or laws
- Section 54:50 - City elections; posting names of candidates
- Section 54:51 - Town elections; posting names of candidates
- Section 54:52 - Lists of candidates; questions submitted to voters; availability for publication; state and city elections
- Section 54:53 - Mailing lists of voters; copies of measures, summaries and arguments to voters; public examination; petition for amendment
- Section 54:54 - Arguments on measures; preparation; submission, filing; printing; mailing
- Section 54:58A - General Laws submitted to municipal voters for acceptance; form of question; filing date
- Section 54:59 - Packing and delivery of ballots to city or town clerks
- Section 54:60 - Duties of city and town clerks; delivery to polls; receipts
- Section 54:61 - Failure to deliver; substitute ballots
- Section 54:62 - Biennial state elections
- Section 54:63 - Calling city and town elections; notice
- Section 54:64 - Notices or warrants; requisites; time of opening and closing polls
- Section 54:65 - Activities at polling place; regulations; penalties
- Section 54:66 - State ballot boxes; use and custody, etc
- Section 54:67 - Voting lists; delivery and use; voting by persons not on voting list; prohibition
- Section 54:67A - Additional state ballot boxes; use in towns
- Section 54:68 - Statements made before public declaration of vote; penalties
- Section 54:69 - Persons permitted within guard rail
- Section 54:70 - Number of voters permitted within guard rail; voters in line at closing time
- Section 54:71 - Presiding officers; powers and duties
- Section 54:71A - Supervision of election officers in cities and towns
- Section 54:72 - Preservation of order by police
- Section 54:73 - Smoking or intoxicating liquors in polling places prohibited; penalties
- Section 54:74 - Detention of offenders; effect on right to vote
- Section 54:75 - Report of violations; prosecutions
- Section 54:76 - Voting; giving name, etc.; delivery of ballot
- Section 54:76B - Failure to present voter identification; right to challenge vote
- Section 54:76C - Provisional ballot
- Section 54:77 - Marking ballots
- Section 54:78 - Voting for presidential electors, governor, and lieutenant governor; marking ballots
- Section 54:78A - 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 54:79 - Assistance in marking ballots
- Section 54:80 - Prohibited markings; use of red pencils or red ink
- Section 54:81 - Spoiled ballots
- Section 54:82 - Folding ballots; leaving promptly
- Section 54:83 - Depositing ballots, etc.
- Section 54:84 - Removal of ballots before polls closed
- Section 54:85 - Proceedings when votes challenged
- Section 54:85A - Challengers
- Section 54:86 - Absent or physically disabled voters
- Section 54:87 - Preparation of absent voting ballots, applications, etc
- Section 54:88 - Distribution of absent voting ballots
- Section 54:89 - Obtaining applications; delivery and mailing of ballots
- Section 54:91 - Applications; filing and certification; notation on voting lists; posting
- Section 54:91A - Specially qualified voters; application for absent voting ballot
- Section 54:91B - Delivery of absent voting ballot and accompanying papers
- Section 54:91C - Handling of absentee ballot from Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)
- Section 54:92 - Method of absent voting
- Section 54:93 - Handling of absent voting ballots
- Section 54:94 - Examination of ballots; acceptance or rejection
- Section 54:95 - Duties of election officers
- Section 54:96 - Challenges
- Section 54:97 - Immaterial irregularities
- Section 54:98 - Absent voter unable to mark ballot
- Section 54:99 - Late ballots; disposition
- Section 54:100 - [Repealed]
- Section 54:102 - Printed information and instructions as to absent voting
- Section 54:103 - Jurisdiction of courts
- Section 54:103A - Sections applicable to city and town elections, primaries and caucuses, and to regional vocational school district elections
- Section 54:103P - Preliminary elections or primaries
- Section 54:103Q - Informality; liberal construction
- Section 54:104 - Use of state blanks and apparatus; canvass of votes
- Section 54:105 - Proceedings at close of polls; counting votes; announcing and recording results; counting before voting has ceased
- Section 54:105A - Electronic voting methods; proceedings at close of polls; counting of ballots; announcement of vote; transportation to tabulation center
- Section 54:106 - Defective ballots
- Section 54:107 - Enclosing and sealing ballots and voting lists; certification
- Section 54:108 - Copies of voting lists as checked; how furnished
- Section 54:109 - Ballots and lists; custody; disposition
- Section 54:109A - Audits of votes following presidential general elections
- Section 54:110 - Rejection of records
- Section 54:110A - Central tabulation facilities
- Section 54:111 - Examination of precinct records; errors; certification
- Section 54:112 - Copies of records of votes to state secretary
- Section 54:113 - Unsealed copies transmitted to state secretary; proceedings
- Section 54:114 - Memorandum of receipt
- Section 54:115 - Copies of records of votes to governor and council; examination; determination of results
- Section 54:116 - Certification of results; summonses; certificates of election
- Section 54:116A - Election of person not listed on state ballot; financial interest statement
- Section 54:117 - Return to state secretary; laying before legislature; filing
- Section 54:118 - Presidential electors; copies of records of votes; proclamations; certificate of election
- Section 54:119 - Contested elections of presidential electors; petition to court for declaration of election; notice; hearing
- Section 54:120 - Procedure; compulsion and immunity of witness
- Section 54:121 - Elections of certain officers; examination of records by county commissioners or election commissioners; certificates of election; notice to state secretary
- Section 54:122 - Board of examiners; examinations by; certificates of election; notice to state secretary
- Section 54:123 - Incomplete records; new returns
- Section 54:129 - Election of representatives; returns of votes to state secretary
- Section 54:130 - Stating at length whole number of ballots
- Section 54:131 - Violations, effect on records
- Section 54:132 - Number of names checked; certification
- Section 54:133 - Report of number of registered voters; etc
- Section 54:134 - Contested elections; retention of ballots
- Section 54:135 - Petition for recount; filing; contents; examination; recounts; notice; amendment of record
- Section 54:135A - Recount where voting machines used; period during which machines locked and sealed
- Section 54:135B - Recount where electronic voting system used; petition specifying recount by board
- Section 54:136 - Information regarding challenged voters not to be given
- Section 54:137 - Election results in cities; declaring before recounts; certificates of election
- Section 54:138 - Presidential electors; proceedings upon failure to elect
- Section 54:139 - [Repealed]
- Section 54:140 - Representatives in congress; vacancies
- Section 54:141 - Representatives in general court; vacancies
- Section 54:142 - District attorneys and county officers
- Section 54:143 - County treasurers; registers of deeds
- Section 54:143A - Register of deeds; vacancies
- Section 54:144 - County or associate commissioner
- Section 54:145 - Death after election but before beginning of term
- Section 54:146 - Notice to state secretary
- Section 54:147 - Elections to fill vacancies
- Section 54:148 - Proceedings of presidential electors; meetings; organization; record of proceedings
- Section 54:149 - Compensation
- Section 54:150 - Officers to be elected at state elections; state officers
- Section 54:151 - Presidential electors
- Section 54:152 - Senators in congress
- Section 54:153 - Representatives in congress
- Section 54:154 - District attorneys
- Section 54:155 - Clerks of courts
- Section 54:156 - Registers of probate
- Section 54:157 - Registers of deeds
- Section 54:158 - County commissioners
- Section 54:159 - Sheriffs
- Section 54:160 - County treasurers
- Section 54:162 - Regional district school committees members