Seekonk Town Clerk’s Corner

We will be receiving the absentee ballots for the Thursday, September 8th State Primary election shortly. The State changed the date of the Primary due to the Labor Day holiday on the Monday. Voting will be held from 7:00AM-8:00PM in the High School Gymnasium on Arcade Avenue. If you will not be in town to vote, you may call and request an absentee ballot application. Voter registration for the primary ends on Friday, August 19th.

Per state law, a mailing was has been done to inactive voters. These are voters who did not answer the census. In order to keep the voting list up to date, especially with this big election year, the state requires that postcard confirmations be mailed out. These cards have return postage on them so if you receive one, please just follow the instructions on the card and put it in the mail. This will save voters from filling out paper work at the polls in order to vote.

The November election will be the first time that the Commonwealth has had early voting. We will have more in next month’s Reporter on the dates and times for that. Also, we will be doing a cable show about early voting as we are encouraging voters to use the eleven days that we will have voting previous to the November 8th date, to vote. It will save lines at the polls on election day if we can get voters to come to Town Hall to early vote. Being the first time this state has had early voting, we have no idea how many people will take advantage of this. Hopefully, many will and we will be open on a Saturday here at Town Hall during the required days. The requirement is ten days during business hours, but we can also add the Saturday in between the two weeks, which we are planning to do.

The Town Clerk’s office also will be holding our annual 9/11 tribute to our public safety employees. It will be held on Monday, September 12th at 6:00 PM at the public safety complex on Taunton Avenue. We will hold it rain or shine. If it rains, we can go inside the bays at the complex so no one gets rained on. This year is especially important that we thank our police and fire employees for all they do to keep us safe. Please plan on attending and say thank you to our wonderful crew of employees. Now more than ever we need to honor them.

If you want to check your voter status, you can go on the town web site and go under Town Clerk, elections and voting. Everything is available on line through Boston. You can even register to vote on line now in this state.
Hope everyone has a safe summer.