Instruction and penalty cards, <1942>-[ongoing].

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Instruction and penalty cards, <1942>-[ongoing].

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The state secretary holds statutory responsibility, carried out since 1948 in the secretary's Elections Division, for preparing and printing cards with instructions to voters for obtaining and marking ballots, and obtaining assistance and a new ballot when original ballot is accidentally spoiled; and other cards with abstracts of penalties imposed for violation of election laws (MGLA c 54, s 48).

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