Chapter 51

Section 45A. An applicant for registration may produce papers of naturalization for inspection if he so desires, and notation of such production shall be made a part of the registration of said applicant.

Section 46. Upon receipt of a completed affidavit of registration, the registrars shall, except as provided in section forty-seven, place said affidavit in their files and add the name of the voter to the current annual register of voters in the city or town.

Section 46A. Except as provided in section forty-seven, the registrars, upon receipt of an affidavit of registration, shall transmit a duplicate copy thereof to the registrars in the city or town where the person last registered to vote, if within the commonwealth, or to the stat…

Section 47. If, after examination of an affidavit of registration, it appears to the registrars from the facts set forth in the affidavit that the person is not qualified to be registered as a voter or that the affidavit is incomplete, they may decline to enter his name on the an…

Section 47A. If, after examination of an affidavit of registration, it appears to the registrars that the person has all the qualifications to be registered as a voter except that of age and the person has obtained the age of 16, then they shall enter the person's name in the cur…

Section 47B. If at any time subsequent to the registration of a voter the registrars have probable cause to believe that the voter has made a false statement in his affidavit of registration, they may prepare a complaint setting forth the basis for their belief, and summon the vo…

Section 47C. Subject to appropriation, the state secretary shall maintain a central registry of voters which shall contain, if provided by the registrars, the names, addresses and effective dates of registration of all registered voters in the commonwealth and which shall contain…

Section 48. Upon complaint signed and sworn to by a registered voter and filed with the registrars at least fourteen days in a city, or at least four days in a town, before a primary, election or town meeting, stating that the complainant has reason to believe and does believe th…

Section 49. If a person summoned before the registrars to answer such complaint appears before them, they shall examine him on oath, and shall receive such other evidence which may be offered in regard to the matters set forth in the complaint and, if satisfied that he is properl…

Section 4A. During the course of the annual listing of residents, the registrars shall notify residents of the opportunity to register as voters and shall provide residents with assistance in registering to vote. Said registrars may, for this purpose provide to such residents in …

Section 50. Any legal resident of the commonwealth who was included in the definition of ''Specially qualified voter'' in section one of chapter fifty throughout the seven days immediately preceding the final time for registration under section twenty-six, or who becomes a citize…

Section 51. To every person registered under section fifty the registrars shall issue a certificate, similar to that provided for in section fifty-nine, entitled ''Supplementary Registration—Specially Qualified Voter'', and referring by chapter and section number to this section …

Section 51A. To every person whose affidavit of voter registration is not a public record, and whose name and address do not appear on the annual register pursuant to sections thirty-seven and forty-four, the registrars shall issue a certificate entitled ''Confidential Registrati…

Section 52. A registrar shall enforce regularity in all proceedings before him, maintain order in and about the place where a session is held, or applications for registration are received, and keep the access thereto open and unobstructed.

Section 52A. No candidate for public office, or any person acting on behalf of a candidate, shall solicit votes or distribute campaign literature in any office where registration of voters is being conducted. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by imprisonment for not…

Section 53. The board of police or officer in charge of the police force of a city or town shall, when requested by the registrars, detail a sufficient number of police officers to attend any meeting held by a registrar in the performance of his duties, and to preserve order and …

Section 54. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall, on the petition of not less than ten qualified voters of a city or town, appoint for a term of one year two supervisors of registration for each place of registration therein, one from each of the two le…

Section 55. Registrars shall, from the names entered in the annual register and from the names maintained on the inactive voters list, prepare voting lists for use at elections; provided, however, that such registrars shall not enter the names of women voters in separate columns …

Section 57. They shall, at least twenty days before the annual or biennial city or town election, and except in Boston, at least sixty days before the biennial state election, cause copies of the voting lists provided for in the two preceding sections to be posted in their princi…

Section 58. If a new name is added to the annual register after the voting lists have been posted, registrars shall cause it to be added to the lists posted in their principal office; provided, however, that all registrars shall maintain lists of new names added to the annual reg…

Section 59. Whenever the name of a voter, appearing at a polling place to vote in a primary, caucus or election or preliminary election, does not appear on a voting list prepared as required by section fifty-five or in whose name or residence, as placed on such list, a clerical e…

Section 6. Except in any city or town as to which it is otherwise provided by special law, the registrars on or before April fifteenth in each year, shall prepare lists containing the names and addresses of all persons seventeen years of age or older listed by them under section …

Section 60. Before every election and meeting in a city or town at which voting lists may be required to be used, the registrars shall prepare such lists for each ward, voting precinct, polling place or town in which such election or meeting is being held, containing the names an…

Section 61. They shall forthwith, after the final day for registration before a biennial state or regular city or town election, certify to the state secretary the number of registered voters in the city or town, and in each ward and precinct therein. In cities where the city cle…

Section 62. When a caucus is called, the registrars, on the request of the chairman of the ward or town committee of the party whose caucus is to be held or of the person designated to call the caucus to order, shall furnish him for use in the caucus a certified copy of the last …

Section 63. After the biennial state election in nineteen hundred and forty-four, and in every tenth year thereafter for the purpose of furnishing the information necessary for a new division of a city into wards and voting precincts and of a town of twelve thousand inhabitants o…

Section 64. The state secretary shall create and maintain an online portal through which a person, including those who have pre-registered pursuant to section 47A, may check to determine whether that person is registered or pre-registered to vote. The portal shall allow a person …

Section 65. (a) For purposes of this section, the term ''automatic voter registration'' shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 42G1/2 and the term ''registrars'' or ''registrars of voters'' shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 1 of chapter 50. (b) The state …

Section 66. The registry of motor vehicles, and any other state agency, shall provide data, as deemed necessary by the state secretary, for the purposes of maintaining accurate and complete voter lists. Not less than every 2 months, the registry of motor vehicles, and any other s…

Section 7. On the lists prepared under section six for delivery to public officers, the registrars shall name or designate all buildings used as residences, in their order on the street where they are located, by giving the number or other definite description of each building so…

Section 8. If a resident in a city or town, except one as to which it is otherwise provided by special law, who is required to be listed under section four as of January first, was not so listed, such person, in order to establish his right to be listed, shall present to the regi…