Massachusetts Election Center

In general, voters must register in order to vote for absentees, with a few exceptions. People outside Massachusetts, prisoners of war, members of military, merchant ships, spouses, dependents do not need to register to refrain from voting.

Please return the application completed at the local election office as soon as possible. I will inform you of the mailing address.

All local election offices will accept forms for postal or personal delivery. If the deadline is near, please check whether the application from the nearest election office is permitted to send fax or e-mail.

Please receive the application form before the deadline. Your application must actually arrive at this point - it will only mail it before the deadline is not enough

If you vote directly in Massachusetts State, you may need to indicate your identity if one of the following applies to you.

If you are asked to present the proof to the voting staff, you can display one of the following files showing your name and address.

This is the first opportunity for absentee voting and you will receive your name and address in photo identification, current utility bill, bank statement, government check, salary, government documents, driver's license , Or if you did not present social security When you register the last 4 digits, you need to send one of the following when refraining from voting:

Current utility bills, bank statements, government checks, salaries, copies of government documents indicating your name and address

In 1766 he was elected to the Boston Council; the Massachusetts State Council in 1773 and ambassadors; elected to the Continental Congress in 1774; elected President of the Continental Congress in 1775; and in 1793 the State of Massachusetts He was elected governor. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1737, he became an orphan since childhood and was adopted by a wealthy businessman uncle without children. Hancock received business education at Harvard University and graduated at the age of 17. He was an uncle's disciple as an official, proved to be honest and capable, and dispatched to the UK for business trips in 1760.

The federation officially passed the state constitution in 1780 and elected John Hancock as its first governor. The state was the first country to abolish slavery in 1783. In the 19th century, Massachusetts became the center of the manufacturing industry in the United States, developed precision manufacturing and weapons at Springfield, and established a large scale textile factory in the area such as Worcester, Haverhill, Lowell. Please get the power by using the river. It is the main knowledge center, the center of abolition. During the American Civil War, Springfield Armory made most of the weapons for the alliance. After the war, immigrants from Europe flooded the nation and continued to expand the industrial base until the 1950s. At that time, textiles and other industries began to leave the "rust belt" of empty factories and factories. Like the political machinery of big cities since the 1860s, labor unions were also important.

Massachusetts was the first slave colony to date back to the beginning of the 17th century, but Massachusetts was the center of progressive and abolitionism in the early days of the American Civil War. Horace Man made the state school system a national model. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson made a great contribution to American philosophy. Members of the transcendental movement emphasize the importance of the natural world and the emotions to humanity. There was a strong opposition to the early dismissalism of Massachusetts that led to the abolition of the riot between 1835 and 1837, but the opposition to slavery increased in the coming decades. The abolishists John Brown and Sojourner Truth lived in Springfield and Northampton respectively, Frederick Douglas in Boston and Susan B. Anthony in Adams in Massachusetts. These abolitionists' works contributed to the Massachusetts civil war action.