Early Voting

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin is forecasting that about 850,000 ballots will be cast in this year’s Democratic primary contests and more than 300,000 votes will be registered in the GOP contests. Galvin offered his predictions Thursday morning, a day before the pre-primary early voting period is set to end. The state’s top election official said voters not aligned…

Massachusetts residents are headed to the polls Saturday to vote early in the state primaries, and for the first time they can do it on a weekend.

Mail-in voting was a huge success during the pandemic; in 2020 a record number of votes were cast in Massachusetts. But the state’s Republican Party says it’s unconstitutional and in an online hearing asked the Supreme Judicial Court to strike it down…adding to their argument that it’s not safe.

Massachusetts’ highest court heard arguments Wednesday in a Republican challenge to the state’s new mail-in and early voting law, which is expected to take effect for September’s primary. The judges, after peppering both sides with constitutional questions for less than an hour, recessed and are expected to rule later. State election officials, in the meantime, are readying to send more...

“Early Voting” won the 2022 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico race course in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday. Epicenter came in second.

The pandemic changed our way of life, in many ways making it more difficult, but some state lawmakers say one adjustment that should remain is the way we vote. Today, lawmakers in Massachusetts will debate the “Votes Act,” which would permanently expand early voting and make voting by mail a standard option in upcoming elections. Currently, voters must be registered…

Bostonians who are registered to vote can cast their ballots at any of a number of early voting locations across the city starting Saturday and running through next Friday, Oct. 29.

Early voting is getting underway in Boston’s historic mayoral election. Bostonians who are registered to vote can cast their ballots at any of a number of early voting locations across the city starting Saturday and running through next Friday, Oct. 29. The race pits Boston city councilor Michelle Wu against fellow councilor Annissa Essaibi George. Wu, 36, whose parents immigrated…

Both candidates stopped by early voting locations on Saturday.

The Massachusetts State Senate on Wednesday went on record supporting the permanent adoption of COVID-era voting allowances like expanded early voting and voting-by-mail, and also adopted policies like same-day registration that go beyond the changes made to accommodate elections during a pandemic. The bill passed 36-3 along party lines after Democrats rejected an alternative the Republican senators offered to address many...

After seeing how voting by mail helped lead to a record number of voters casting ballots in the 2020 election, Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday he would file legislation this month to make the option a permanent fixture of the Massachusetts voting system. Galvin said his bill would also expand in-person early voting and implement same-day voter registration…

Changes to the way millions of Americans voted this year contributed to record turnout, but that’s no guarantee the measures making it easier to cast ballots will stick around for future elections

NBCLX Political Reporter Noah Pransky breaks down voter turnout by age so far this election, with only 23% of the votes coming from Americans under the age of 30 and the majority coming from voters 65 and older.

On the eve of Election Day, John Fortier of the Bipartisan Policy Democracy Project explains what you need to know to interpret the presidential race results as they begin rolling in on Election Night. What do the historic surges in early voting mean for President Trump and Joe Biden, and how can the Electoral College hand the White House to...

Forget the red and blue election map. The most important map to watch on Election Night is one that shows when each state starts counting its early ballots. The differing rules states use to prioritize when early voting ballots are counted may create a blue or red “mirage” on Election Night that shows early leads for either Joe Biden or...

It’s time to remake our electoral map so voters are prepared for a “red mirage” and “blue mirage” on Election Night

In-person early voting has ended in Massachusetts, but there are still some across the state that plan to cast their ballot on Election Day.

The number of people who have voted in the election is already more than half of the total number of ballots cast in 2016

Early in-person voting came to an end Friday in Massachusetts. Here’s a look at the numbers:

Despite the snow Friday, the last day of in-person early voting in Massachusetts, there was still a line with about 100 voters on Congress Street in Boston.