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As Election Day (finally) approaches, fear-mongering about 'rampant' voter fraud across the country has reached a fever pitch. Massachusetts is no exception. Last week, the ACLU of Massachusetts encountered a letter to local election officials from an alleged Trump supporter.
Arbitrary deadlines should not keep anyone from exercising their constitutional right to vote.
An average of 13 people per week face police harassment or arrest because of marijuana in the City of Boston alone, Boston Police Department data show.
By Whitney A. Taylor, Political Director
This week, six professional legal associations joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts in calling on the state Supreme Judicial Court for a global remedy to the 24,000 unresolved cases stemming from the Dookhan drug lab scandal.
Photo: Members of the Massachusetts Election Modernization Coalition celebrate the option of early voting, available for the first time on October 24, 2016. Photo by Caley McGuane.