Galvin may name receiver after Boston ballot problem | Dorchester Reporter
Secretary of State William Galvin speaks to reporters Wednesday afternoon about Election Day in Boston the day before. SHNS photo
Secretary of State William Galvin says he will most likely appoint a receiver to seize control of Boston's election division, after some city polling locations did not have enough ballots during Election Day, causing the secretary's office to send police cars, sirens blaring, to rush extra ballots to those locations.
"The concern I have is, they say they ran out. Well, there's no reason to run out. They had the ballots — they didn't distribute them properly," Galvin said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. "The reason was just poor planning, but most especially, lack of communication."
Galvin sent a letter to Eneida Tavares, chair of Boston's Election Commission, Wednesday afternoon announcing a state investigation into the "significant problems" with the supply of ballots at a number of polling locations in the city.
Galvin said his office, which oversees every local election office in the state, delivered the ballots to Boston in early October. From there, the city had to distribute them to more than 200 precincts.
