By Mr. Walsh of Boston, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 708) of Martin J. Walsh for legislation to further regulate absentee voting.  Election Laws.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Martin J. Walsh

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to absentee ballots .

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

   Persons employed by a city or town in the Commonwealth on the day of, and in the conduct of, any state primary, state election, preliminary city or town election, regular or special, may make applications for and return an absentee voter ballot at each primary or election as if and in the same manner as a person absent from said city or town on the day of such primary or election.