Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The ballot is long. Here’s how to vote, what to do with your mail-in ballot, and what the nine questions are about.
Massachusetts votes on Tuesday, November 3. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and if you’re in line by 8, you can still vote.
Where do I vote?
You have to vote at your assigned polling place, not just any location. Look it up at VoteInMA.com — it takes 30 seconds. Early voting is over, and the registration deadline was October 24, so if you’re not registered, you can’t vote this year.
I still have my mail-in ballot. Now what?
Don’t mail it now. Drop it in your city or town’s ballot drop box or hand it in at your local election office by 8 p.m. Tuesday. You can’t leave it at your polling place.
If you never sent it back, you can still vote in person on Tuesday instead. If you already returned it, you can’t vote again.
What’s on the ballot?
State offices including governor and attorney general, a U.S. Senate seat, all nine U.S. House seats, and every seat in the State House and Senate. Then come nine statewide questions the most since 1994:
- Public records: opens the governor’s office and the Legislature to public records requests.
- Public defenders: collective bargaining for employees of the state’s public defender agency.
- Primaries: replaces party primaries with one primary for all candidates, where the top two advance.
- Election Day registration: lets you register and vote on the same day.
- Tax revenue cap: changes how the state’s revenue limit and taxpayer rebates are calculated.
- Nature fund: creates a new fund for conservation.
- Single-family homes: allows homes on lots of 5,000 square feet or more where there’s water and sewer.
- Marijuana: bans retail sales of recreational marijuana.
- Gun law: a yes vote keeps the state’s 2024 gun law; a no vote repeals it.
Read the full text and the arguments for and against each one in the state’s official voter guide before you go. Bring notes into the booth if it helps… that’s allowed.
