Amendment #19 to H4768

Depositing mail in ballots into tabulators in advance of election day

Mr. Moran of Boston moves to amend the bill by adding the following section:-

SECTION XXXX. Instead of transmitting absentee and early voted ballots to polling places the city or town clerk may decide to deposit these ballots into a ballot box (paper ballot communities) or into tabulators in advance of election day, to be known as an advance centralized tabulation facility.  The secretary shall promulgate regulations regarding for advance centralized tabulation facilitates on or before August 1, 2020.  All mail in ballots opened in advance of election day, in accordance with the regulations put forth by the secretary, shall be kept secured, locked and unexamined, and no results shall be determined or announced until the time from closing the polls on the day of the primary or election.  Disclosing any such result before that time shall be punished as a violation of section 14 of chapter 56 of the General laws.

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #19, as changed to H4768

Depositing mail in ballots into tabulators in advance of election day