Empowering
Voters Project:
A Force for Change
Advocacy Agenda
League Legislation
Strengthening Voting Rights and Voter
Confidence (S.2277)
Unconditional Absentee Voting
Constitutional Amendment (S.2034)
Promote
Reforms for Easier and More Accessible
Registration & Voting
Reform absentee voting
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Permit unconditional absentee voting by amending the Massachusetts Constitution
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Allow early absentee voting at municipal election offices before an election
Allow Election Day registration
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Increase turnout by allowing voter registration at polling places
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Lessen the need for confusing and time-consuming provisional ballots
Increase accessibility of voter registration forms
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Allow downloading and photocopying of forms
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Promote changes to make the forms more user-friendly
Establish online access to voting lists
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Allow voters across the state to check their voter registration status online
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Ensure that online voter registration records are kept accurate and up-to-date
Expand right to leave work to vote
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Amend existing law to allow all workers to take a two-hour leave to vote if they do not have three consecutive hours away from work when polls are open
Ensure that Voting is
Equitable and Efficient
Oppose restrictive identification
requirements
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Ensure that requirements for presenting IDs, which can be discriminatory, are not expanded
Expand recruitment of poll workers
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Allow municipalities to hire poll workers residing in other towns and cities, including college students, and to reassign public employees to serve as poll workers
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Permit hiring high school students to serve as poll workers
Mandate display of Voters' Bill of Rights in every polling place
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Voters should have easy access to the Voters' Bill of Rights so they can protect their rights at the polls.
Boost Voter
Confidence in Electoral System and Elected Officials
Propose measures to ensure
the continuing impartiality of elections administration
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File legislation to ensure that election administrators are impartial by barring them from holding responsible, fiduciary positions in political campaigns other than their own
A project of the
League of Women Voters
of Massachusetts
