HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3339        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 663

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act establishing identification requirements for voters who registered by mail..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

1.Section 76B of chapter 54 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking subsection (b)(1) and inserting in its place the following:-

election  shall present identification under paragraph (2) if:

                (b)(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person asserting a right to vote in a primary, caucus, preliminary, or other         (a) the person registered to vote in the city or town by mail after January 1, 2003; and

            (b) the person has not previously voted in a primary, caucus, preliminary, or other election in the commonwealth.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.