Massachusetts § 18 Failure to make and transmit election records

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 18 — Failure to make and transmit election records

Massachusetts § 18

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title VIIIELECTIONS

Ch. 56VIOLATIONS OF ELECTION LAWS

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 56, § 18 (2026).

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Section 18. A city or town clerk or an election commissioner who fails to make a record of votes cast at an election and to make and transmit copies of any such record, as required by chapter fifty-four, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars; but if a copy of the records is deposited in the post office within the time fixed for transmission or delivery, postpaid and properly addressed, it shall be a bar to any complaint for delinquency.

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Section 18. A city or town clerk or an election commissioner who fails to make a record of votes cast at an election and to make and transmit copies of any such record, as required by chapter fifty-four, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars; but if a copy of the records is deposited in the post office within the time fixed for transmission or delivery, postpaid and properly addressed, it shall be a bar to any complaint for delinquency.

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