Order filing Home Rule Petition entitled "An Act Authorizing the City of Cambridge to offer Early Voting in Municipal Elections

How it started

Oct 29, 2018 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor McGovern, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 29, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document Agenda item attachment · 2 pages

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Beginning in the year 2019, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the City of Cambridge’s Election Commission shall offer early voting for municipal elections. The City of Cambridge’s Election Commission shall allow any qualified voter, as defined in section 1 of chapter 51 of the General Laws, to cast a ballot for any biennial municipal election during the early voting period.

The City of Cambridge’s Election Commission shall promulgate regulations to implement this act consistent with section 25B of chapter 54 of the General Laws. Such regulations shall include, but shall not be limited to, a process for establishing early voting locations, dates, staffing, and a process for applying for, receiving, separating, compiling, recording, and securing early voter ballots. Each early voting site shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.

SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE

This act shall take full effect upon its acceptance and appropriation by vote of the City Council of said City, but not otherwise.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 29, 2018