![]() Right now, they’re sitting in - you guessed it - the town vault. You got 25 bucks for it.”Įlections are administered differently nowadays - and Mashpee’s ballots are printed by the state. They counted out their sheets into batches of 50. “You had a group of people that came in after 8 o’clock. “Back then, there were no machines,” she recalled. In Mashpee, Town Clerk Deb Kaye started working for the local government in the 1980s, when the town printed its own paper ballots. ![]() Holyoke’s registrar of voters Brenna McGee said her city keeps unused ballots “locked in an election room that is alarmed.” She hasn’t had any vault issues in the past. ![]() Like other ballots across the state, they then spent time in a vault. In Acushnet, ballots arrived at town hall roughly three or four weeks before the election. Democrats in the driver's seat this election Democrats say stakes are high in November’s election Republican Geoff Diehl’s supporters expect victory - despite the polls Youth voters have been turning out in historic numbers. In the leadup to a statewide election, the state government sends ballot information to a vendor, who prints ballots and ships them off to cities and towns, explained Angela Jack, the town clerk in Ashby. With the permanent introduction of early and mail-in voting, O’Malley said many municipalities are also storing their already-cast ballots in vaults, as well. Multiple town clerks said they're the only staff with keys to their vaults, and locking up ballots is a commonsense measure, said Debra O’Malley, Director of Communications with the secretary of state’s office. Like Barnstable, other Massachusetts cities and towns keep their ballots locked in vaults and keypad-guarded rooms ahead of elections. “We have more than one vault here at Town Hall,” said Town Clerk Anne Quirk. With the general election this Tuesday, Barnstable’s vault still hasn’t been repaired. A locksmith finally got through to the unmarked ballots that evening after nine hours of work. Across the state, ballots are waiting behind closed doors, and sometimes underground, for Election Day on Tuesday.Ī vault malfunction in Barnstable delayed September’s primary voting, forcing the town to print new ballots and keep the polls open late.
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