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Potential State House candidate? Check your voter registration by Feb 23, 2010.

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If you’re contemplating becoming a candidate for the fall elections to the General Court, there is a fundamental deadline approaching on February 23. Every year there are a number of people who fail to understand this aspect of running for office and are surprised by these pre-nomination candidate voter-registration requirements.

The deadline to become an unenrolled voter, to run in the fall election election as an independent or under a non-party designation is February 23, 2010.

Likewise, the voter registration deadline to run as a party candidate in a party primary is the same date.

Best to check your voter registration affiliation today, if you’re thinking of running for office. See the Schedule link.

The recognized parties are the Democratic, Republican or Libertarian parties.

All other “parties” are actually non-party  “designations” for the purposes of elections.  Note this important additional party registration qualification from the Secretary of State’s information, which refers only to the recognized parties and their candidates.  

In addition, no person shall be a candidate for nomination by one party if that person was enrolled in any other party during the one year period preceding the filing date for this election.

Election Schedule 2010

 Http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/schedule_10.pdf

Candidate Guide 2010

Http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/Candidates_Guide_10.pdf

Here are the links to current elections info:

Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division

Map of all Massachusetts Senate Districts

Map of all Massachusetts House Districts  

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  1. …but that link you posted would seem to indicate that the last day for district (read: state legislature) candidates to register as EITHER non-party OR for a specific party is Feb 23rd.  

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    p>If that’s the case (and I’m not positive that it is), you might want to update the diary to help avoid confusion đŸ™‚

    • Fixed in Diary. Good catch.

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      p>For House and Senate, it’s Feb 23 for enrolled and un-enrolled candidates.
      (I had mis-copied the registration deadline for state-wide offices, which is March 2, 2010.)

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