{"id":1329,"date":"2016-08-03T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:29:58","slug":"state-primary-election","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2016\/08\/03\/state-primary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"State Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State Primary Election is Thursday&nbsp;September 8, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absentee Ballot Applications are available for the&nbsp;State Primary. Deadline to apply for an absentee ballot is 12 Noon on Wednesday,&nbsp;September 7.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here for information on <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2012\/09\/10\/absentee-ballot-applications\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Absentee Ballots<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>August 19 was&nbsp;the deadline to <strong>register to vote<\/strong> or for registered voters&nbsp;to change their party enrollment either to another party or to \u201cunenrolled,\u201d which is commonly referred to as \u201cindependent.\u201d&nbsp; This should not be confused with the United Independent Party (UIP); a party that will have ballots available but with no candidates printed on them.&nbsp; Voters registered in UIP&nbsp;are not&nbsp;eligible to take a Democratic, Republican, or Green-Rainbow ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The Town Clerk&#8217;s Office&nbsp;was open&nbsp;&nbsp;from 9 AM until 5 PM for voter registration on August 19.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to&nbsp;check your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/VoterRegistrationSearch\/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">voter registration status<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Persons who are United States Citizens, residents of Massachusetts, and who will be at least 18 years old on or before&nbsp;September&nbsp;8 are eligible to register and vote at this election. Those meeting these qualifications who have a Massachusetts Driver\u2019s License can submit their registration online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registertovotema.com\/\"><u>www.RegisterToVoteMA.com<\/u><\/a>. Click here for&nbsp;additional voter registration information including online voter&nbsp;registration: &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2012\/08\/02\/voter-registration-2\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #000080\">Voter Registration<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click&nbsp;here to find your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheredoivotema.com\/bal\/myelectioninfo.aspx\">polling location and precinct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To view the specimen ballots for your precinct click on&nbsp;your precinct:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/specimen-ballots-9-8-2016-precinct-1-all-parties\/\">Precinct 1&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/specimen-ballots-9-8-2016-1a-4-and-5-all-parties\/\">Precincts 1A, 4 and 5<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/specimen-ballots-9-8-2016-precincts-2-and-3-all-parties\/\">Precincts 2 and 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please call the Town Clerk&#8217;s Office at 978-639-3351 or email us at <span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><a href=\"mailto:clerk@sudbury.ma.us\"><u><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">clerk@sudbury.ma.us<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absentee Ballot Applications are available for the Thursday, September 8, 2016 State Primary Election.  <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2016\/08\/03\/state-primary-election\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about State Primary Election\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}