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Vote Tuesday, Nov. 5, for President, U.S. Senator, Representative in Congress, State Senator and State Representative, not to mention Governor’s Councillor, Clerk of Courts and Register of Deeds plus five ballot questions.
All six Sudbury precincts will vote at the Fairbank Community Center, 40 Fairbank Road; precincts 4 and 6 no longer vote at Town Hall on Election Day. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. For questions about your precinct or registration status, go to www.VoteinMA.com.
Want to see what the ballot looks like? Check out a specimen ballot. The five ballot questions continue on the back of the ballot, so be sure to turn it over.
When you are voting, if you have a question or problem that the poll workers can’t resolve, you can call the election hotline established by voting rights organizations, 866-OUR-VOTE.
If you are admitted to a healthcare facility within one week of an election, there is a process to obtain an emergency absentee ballot and vote; details here.
The in-person early voting period has ended, and the deadline has passed to apply for a mail ballot.
To be sure your mail ballot arrives on time, put it in the ballot dropbox behind Town Hall, 322 Concord Rd., available 24/7. The Post Office recommended mailing a ballot one week before Election Day, so the dropbox is a better option now. Ballots sent via the postal service must be postmarked on or before Nov. 5 and must be received in the Clerk’s office by 5 p.m. Nov. 8. Voters can track their mail ballots at www.TrackMyBallotMA.com. Be sure to sign the yellow ballot envelope; envelopes without signatures will not be accepted.
Mail ballots cannot be deposited at the Fairbank polling location on Election Day. Mail ballots should be deposited in the ballot dropbox behind Town Hall or taken to the Town Clerk’s office in Town Hall by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
The League and other voting rights groups note that Election Day is not Results Day. Don’t expect to know who won the presidential election on Tuesday night. It will take at least 2-3 days for many states to count every vote–including in-person, mail, absentee, overseas, and military ballots. Massachusetts accepts overseas and military ballots until Nov. 15.
In the contested race for 13th Middlesex State Representative, the results posted on the Town Clerk’s website will be for Sudbury only, but the district includes parts of four other municipalities, so the final result will be posted on the Secretary of State’s website.
Take a look at the League’s Candidates’ Forum for the 13th Middlesex state representative seat. Carmine Gentile, the Democratic incumbent, and Virginia Gardner, the Republican challenger, answered questions for an hour.
The forum will run on SudburyTV cable channels Comcast 22 and Verizon 30 and high-definition channels Comcast 1074 and Verizon 2130 repeatedly until the election, and is available on demand at sudburytv.org. You do not have to be a cable subscriber to view the on-demand version on your computer. The video-on-demand program is indexed so viewers can click on a specific question.
SudburyTV is also airing a forum on the five ballot questions produced by the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle. Voter information on the ballot questions is in the “red book,” the Massachusetts Information for Voters booklet sent to every household and on the Secretary of State’s website.
Election information and candidate responses to a League questionnaire are available at the League’s online voters’ guide, www.Vote411.org. For additional voting information, visit the Town Clerk’s website or the League’s website.
