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Speak up for Ranked Choice Voting!

The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Election Laws will hold a hearing on the bills for allowing municipalities to choose Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) (H.711 / S.433) and the existing RCV home-rule petitions that various municipalities have enacted.

The hearing is this Wednesday, June 21st at 1pm. The hearing will be in room A-2 and will be virtual. It will be live streamed on the Massachusetts Legislature website.

To register to testify virtually, you must provide contact information on the form by 12:00 PM on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Individuals and groups testifying in person are also encouraged to register online. Written testimony may be submitted by Friday, June 23, 2023 to the Joint Committee on Election Laws at 24 Beacon Street, Room 445, Boston, MA 02133 or by e-mail to colleen.bellotti@mahouse.gov and bridgette.maynard@masenate.gov.

Additional hearing details are available on-line including which bills are up for consideration.

Spoken testimony is limited to three minutes per individual and the committee chair reserves the right to call public officials out of turn.

Other bills you may wish to speak on are:

  • An Act extending voting rights in municipal elections to noncitizen voters of the commonwealth (S.415)
  • An Act granting the city of Boston the authority to endow legal voting rights in municipal elections for city of Boston residents aged 16 and 17 years old (S.429)
  • An Act extending voting rights in municipal elections to noncitizen voters of the Commonwealth (H.706)
  • An Act relative to transparent political campaigning (H.672)
  • An Act extending voting rights in municipal elections to noncitizen voters of the commonwealth (H.671)
  • An Act enabling children’s right to vote (H.670)
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