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Board of Registrars
April 28, 2015 Minutes
Attendees: Rosemary Fudeman, Claire Golding, Anne Littlefield, Lynne Grettum
- Meeting was convened at 9:05AM
- Rosemary was sworn in for a new term to end 3/31/18
- The board reorganized and voted unanimously Claire Golding as chairman
- April 15, 2014 meeting minutes were reviewed and approved unanimously
- Lynne reviewed the 2014 election year.
- There were 2 State Elections and 2 Town Elections, annual and special.
- State Primary was changed from 9/16 to 9/9 by the legislature
- All “Last day to register” sessions for each election were held as dictated by MGL
- State Elections Update for 2015
- In addition to the Democratic and Republican parties 2 additional parties will be recognized in the 2016 Presidential Primary. Those parties are United Independent Party, and Green-Rainbow party.
- State Elections legislative update:
- online registration will be ready by August 2015
- Pre-registration for 16 and 17 years olds starts in August 2016, State will issue rules for this.
- Presidential Primary will be March 1st, and include ballots for the four parties mentioned above
- Early voting will take place for Presidential election. State still has to put together a detailed implementation plan.
- New Vote Tabulator Status
- Two new vote tabulators have been certified by the State
- Lynne has chosen the tabulator from Election Systems and Software, DS 200 after seeing a demo of both machines.
- Lynne will put an article on the May 2015 Annual Town Meeting warrant for the purchase of the tabulator
- Plan is to start using the tabulator at the March 1st Presidential Primary.
- Update on Voter registration project
- Letters and mail-in registrations were sent out on February 26, 2015 to 21 unregistered voters 17 and 18.
- 5 sent in mail-in voter registrations
Motion was made and seconded to dissolve the meeting, vote was unanimous. Meeting dissolved at 10am.
Respectfully submitted,
Lynne Grettum
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