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FY 2025 Municipal (Local) Election Early Voting Cost Certification Survey

Survey for Local Elections held July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025 - Key Dates and Information

Welcome to the FY 2025 Municipal (Local) Election Early Voting Cost Certification Survey. The Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor (OSA) manages a certification process for municipalities’ early voting costs, first introduced in 2016 as part of the Commonwealth’s support for broader voter participation. Under the fiscal year 2025 state budget, the OSA’s Division of Local Mandates (DLM) will certify expenses related to vote-by-mail and in person early voting for local elections held July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. Promptly providing the early voting expense information requested in this survey will ensure your municipality's costs are considered for certification.

SurveyKey Dates
Survey Launch

April 28, 2025

Survey link: https://massosa.checkboxonline.com/FY2025-Local-Elections-Early-Voting-Survey

Submissions Due for Municipalities May 12, 2025 - for municipalities that held local elections through April 30, 2025, municipalities that will not hold local elections during FY 2025, and municipalities that voted to opt-out of vote-by-mail and did not authorize in-person early voting for FY 2025 local elections
 1 week after scheduled election - for municipalities that will hold local elections in May 2025
 

2 business days after scheduled election - for municipalities that will hold regularly scheduled local elections in June 2025

If your municipality is planning to hold a special local election in June 2025, please contact DLM to coordinate a timely submission.

What would you like to do?

Top tasks

Complete online cost certification survey (external link)   Complete online durable equipment form (external link) 

Additional resources

Early Voting Cost Certification FAQs  DLM Webinars 

Contact Information

Address

One Winter Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
Directions 

Phone

Call Division of Local Mandates - Cost Certification at (617) 727-0980

Online

Cost Certification Email Division of Local Mandates - Cost Certification at DLM.CostCertification@MassAuditor.gov

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