Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Hanover Town Clerk Catherine Harder-Bernier announced that Friday, August
19th is the last day to register to vote in the State Primary Election
scheduled to be held on September 8th. The Registrar’s Office will be
open from 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Friday the 19th of August.
Thanks to new legislation that went into effect August 1st, 2016, any
Hanover citizen who is sixteen years of age or older is eligible to
register to vote. Citizens who will be eighteen on or before Election Day,
September 8th, 2016 will then be eligible to actually vote. Once registered
and 18 years of age, individuals will be eligible to vote in all elections
thereafter, including the State (Presidential) Election in November.
Citizens of Hanover may conveniently register to vote or change their party
status on-line, by mail or in person. The link for on-line registration is
here: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/OVR . If residents choose to register
by mail they should download the “Massachusetts Mail-In Voter
Registration Form” found here:
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howreg.htm and mail the completed
form to the Hanover Town Clerk’s Office.
If voters wish to register to vote in person, they may do so at two
convenient locations: Hanover Town Hall or the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
“The State Primary Election is the precursor to the big State Election in
November, but it features a number of important races, including one for
State Representative on the Democratic side and one for Representative in
Congress on the Republican side,” said Harder-Bernier. “With the new
legislation that allows teenagers to register to vote beginning at age
sixteen, even though they still cannot vote until they are eighteen, I hope
their interest is piqued and they start to become engaged in the election
process. It does not get much better than a Presidential Election year to
become excited about this process!” she continued.
Questions may be directed to Hanover Town Clerk Catherine Harder-Bernier at
(781) 826-5000 x1079 or by e-mail at Catherine.harderbernier@hanover-ma.gov
, or Senior Registrar Nancy Goldthwait at (781) 826-5000 x1082 or
nancy.goldthwait@hanover-ma.gov .
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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