Massachusetts High Court Clears Way for Mail-In Voting This Fall
A voter casts their ballot at a vote by mail dropbox at Boston City Hall in Massachusetts, on Sept. 1, 2020.
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Massachusetts can proceed with universal mail-in and early voting in primary elections this September, the state’s highest court ruled Monday in a defeat for Republicans.
Top state Republican officials had asked for a temporary restraining order against allowing the secretary of state to send out applications for ballots to all registered voters by July 23, as specified by a new voting law that took effect last month. They argued that the law violated the state constitution’s provisions for absentee voting.