Natick votes: We're going to need a bigger box in November

Natick voters have three ways to cast ballots for the Sept. 1 state primary election:

By mail using an early voting/absentee ballot (requires an application). You can track your ballot online.
Vote early in person at Town Hall (Aug. 22-23) and the Morse Institute Library (Aug. 24-28). COVID-19 protocols apply.
Vote in person on Election Day. All polling locations will be open from 7:00AM-8:00PM, and note that precincts 1-3 have been moved to the Natick High gym.

The town has received about 10,000 early voting/absentee ballot applications, according to Town Clerk Diane Packer, who spoke during the Aug. 19 Select Board meeting. Some voters in precincts 1-5 and 8 received the wrong ballots and should reach out to Town Hall to get the correct ballot sent (if this applies to you and you already sent in your ballot, your votes will count except in the state senator race).

Packer advises dropping off ballots in the mail slot at Town Hall at this point, rather than mailing them.

Staff has been checking the lockbox that ballots stuck into the mail slot go into numerous times per day because it’s been getting full. “We are looking at a larger solution for that problem for November,” she says.

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