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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 election season promises to be like no other New Englanders have experienced. With Election Day approaching on Nov. 3 — in addition to state primary elections — voters must choose how they plan to cast their ballots, whether it be in-person, by early voting or through the mail. The elections come amid backlash against…

A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one local elections official

The partisan war over how voters cast ballots in a pandemic isn’t just leading more Democrats to plan on voting by mail this fall; it’s also leading far more Democrats than Republicans to heed United State Postal Service warnings to play it safe and get ballots in the mail well before Election Day.

NBCLX’s Chase Cain exposes the truth about six circulating vote-by-mail myths ahead of the 2020 election.

With both sides calling this the most important presidential election in decades, you want to make certain that your vote is counted. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker has a checklist of the five most important things you should do to make sure your ballot doesn’t get disqualified this November.

A record turnout is possible for the Massachusetts primary as Secretary of State William Galvin estimates up to 1.3 million people will vote this year, putting a strain on local election officials. [Click here for live results from Tuesday night’s Massachusetts primary election.] “I’m concerned, of course. We have all these factors that are unique to this election,” Galvin...

More than 900,000 people voted in the primary before the polls opened Tuesday, but others went to polling places, where extra precautions were in place.

Several primary races are taking place in Massachusetts Tuesday but one of the most closely watched is between incumbent U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and challenger Congressman Joe Kennedy III.

On Primary Election Day in Massachusetts, candidates are making their final pitches to voters, who have a chance to pick a nominee to represent their party in the U.S. Senate as well as four of the state’s nine congressional districts.

At Leah Higginbotham’s home in Newton, Massachusetts, something was missing during her daily check of the mailbox earlier this month. “Our mail carrier, who’s awesome, went on vacation,” she recalled. Mail service to her neighborhood was interrupted for a week, Higginbotham said. And with neighbors and family members relying on daily deliveries, Higginbotham said she was disturbed. “My mom,...

Delivery delays are causing concern in the weeks leading up to the November election.

The House Oversight Committee intends to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

The Attorney General has been warning of ballot burglars. Sounds scary, right? But as NBCLX Chase Cain uncovered, these election boogie men are more fantasy than fact.

Massachusetts’ highest court rejected a petition seeking all ballots postmarked by Sept. 1 be counted in the primaries.

Many Americans are confused about voting by mail and have fears that using the mail to cast your ballot will generate voter fraud. Debra Cleaver, founder and CEO of VOTEAMERICA, a non-profit that helps Americans vote by mail, joined NBCLX to debunk some mail voting myths and sort through conflicting messages on absentee voting.

Massachusetts highest court is weighing whether to grant more time to count mail ballots in the state’s Sept. 1 primary election amid concerns of U.S. Postal Service delays. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is slated to hear arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by Becky Grossman. The Democratic candidate for Congress wants to extend the deadline for counting state...

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a Senate hearing Friday about changes in postal operations, including limits to overtime pay and the removal of mail-sorting machines, that have caused service delays nationwide.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday that the USPS is halting some operational changes to mail delivery until after the November election. The abrupt reversal comes as more than 20 states announced they would be suing to stop the changes.

Over one million Massachusetts residents have requested vote-by-mail ballots ahead of the state’s Sept. 1 primary and November presidential elections, Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday. In a press conference, Galvin said the state had been “very effective” in its effort to provide safe, secure ways to vote amid the coronavirus pandemic and controversy over mail-in ballots and the…

With more than one million Massachusetts residents requesting vote-by-mail ballots ahead of the state’s Sept. 1 primary and November presidential elections, Secretary of State William Galvin on Tuesday addressed the concerns some residents may have.