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Leader Donato seeks changes to absentee-voter disability language and political designation rules
Summary
Representative Leader Donato told the Joint Committee on Election Laws he supports H.822 to remove the word “physical” from the absentee-voter disability definition and H.824 to raise the threshold for creating political designations from 50 to 500 signatures and allow administrative dissolution if thresholds are not met.
Representative Leader Donato told the Joint Committee on Election Laws he supports two bills: H.822, which would amend the absentee‑voting law by removing the word “physical” from the disability requirement in the statute cited by the committee, and H.824, which would change how political designations are created and maintained.
On H.822, Donato said the Massachusetts…
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