reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
MA Gen L ch 53 § 89 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 89 - Adoption of Law for Official Ballots; Calling Caucuses; Notice

Section 89. Any city or town committee shall, at the written request of fifty voters, members of its party, call caucuses of said party to determine by ballot whether the provisions of law for the use of official ballots shall be adopted. The notice of said caucus shall state the purpose for which it is called, the place, the day, and the hour, not earlier than six o'clock and not later than half past seven o'clock in the evening, of holding said caucus. It shall be issued at least seven days prior to the day named therefor, and shall be published at least twice in one or more local newspapers, if any, and shall be posted in at least five public places in each ward or town. The polls shall be kept open at least one hour. If said caucuses shall vote to adopt said provisions, all caucuses of said political party in said city or town shall thereafter be called and conducted accordingly.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 90 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 90 - Revocation of Acceptance of Special Provisions; Notice

Section 90. A political party in a city or town which has accepted said special provisions may, not less than one year after the date of the caucus wherein such provisions were adopted, revoke such action at a caucus called and held in the manner provided in the preceding section. Upon the adoption of said provisions or upon the revocation of such adoption, the secretary of the city or town committee of such political party shall, within ten days thereafter, file a notice thereof with the state secretary and with the clerk of the city or town and the secretary of the state committee of the political party so voting.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 91 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 91 - Time of Holding Caucuses

Section 91. All such caucuses of a political party for the choice of candidates for a city or town election, except caucuses relating to a special election, shall be held on the same day in each city and town. The city or town committee shall fix the days for holding all caucuses mentioned in this section, and all calls for the same shall be issued by its chairman and secretary. No two political parties shall hold their caucuses on the same day. The party first filing a copy of the call for a caucus with the city of town clerk shall be entitled to precedence as to the day so fixed.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 92 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 92 - Notices of Caucuses; Contents

Section 92. Notices of caucuses in said cities or towns shall state the place where and the day and hour when nomination papers shall be issued; the place where and the earliest day and hour when such nomination papers may be filed, which time shall be not less than twenty-four week day hours succeeding three o'clock of the day fixed for issuing such papers; the place where and the day and hour prior to which such nomination papers shall be filed; and the day on which the several caucuses will be held, and shall be issued not less than eighteen days prior thereto.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 93 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 93 - Provision of Polling Places; Voting Lines

Section 93. At least two weeks prior to the day named for a caucus, the chairman or secretary of the city or town committee shall give notice of such date to the aldermen or to the selectmen, who shall, at least ten days prior to such date, notify the city or town committee of the places selected for holding the caucuses, and shall, at the expense of the city or town, provide polling places, in a city not less than one for each ward, and in cities and towns where elections or caucuses are held in voting precincts, one in each of such precincts, as the city or town committee shall designate, but not less than one for each ward, and furnish them with booths, registering ballot boxes, guard rails and the like, as they are arranged for state elections, also postage for mailing credentials and notices or certificates of nomination and election.  If twenty-five voters of a ward or of a town shall request in writing at least twelve days before any caucus of the political party to which they belong, the aldermen or selectmen shall so arrange the polling place of such ward or town as to allow voting to proceed in two or more lines at the caucus.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 94 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 94 - Notice by City or Town Committees

Section 94. At least seven days prior to the day named for a caucus, the city or town committee shall issue a notice that such caucus will be held, stating the place, the day and the hour of holding the same. The hour shall not be earlier than two o'clock in the afternoon nor later than half past seven o'clock in the evening. Such notices, and notices relative to the filing of nomination papers, shall be published at least twice in one or more local newspapers, if any.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 95 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 95 - Blank Nomination Papers; Contents

Section 95. The city or town shall provide, and the city or town clerk shall seasonably prepare, for each political party, blank nomination papers for use in the different wards of the city or in the town. Such papers shall state the place where, and the day and hour prior to which, signed nomination papers shall be filed. On the back of each, the first sentence of section seven, sections forty-five and sixty, and sections ninety-six to one hundred and one, inclusive, shall be printed. They shall be delivered only to the chairman or secretary of the political committee for whose use they have been prepared.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 96 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 96 - Nominations Made by Nomination Papers; Acceptance; Vacancies

Section 96. Nominations of candidates for elective city or town offices and for caucus officers to be voted for at a caucus, shall be made by nomination papers, as hereinafter provided. Such nominations shall be made on the blank nomination papers prepared and delivered in accordance with the preceding section; and no nomination paper offered for filing shall be received or shall be valid to which is attached any card, paper or other device, containing the name of a candidate, his written acceptance, or containing the signature of any voter required by this section. Such papers shall be signed in person by at least five voters of the ward or town where the caucus is to be held, and for a district composed of more than one ward shall be signed by a number of voters equal in the aggregate to not less than five voters for each ward in said district, and shall be subject to sections forty-five and sixty, except that the nomination paper of a candidate for caucus officer shall not contain the statement permitted by section forty-five. No vacancy caused by the death, withdrawal or ineligibility of any of the above candidates shall be filled, unless the person entitled to fill such vacancy files the written acceptance of the candidate nominated to fill the vacancy.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 97 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 97 - Nomination Papers; Sealing; Filing; Opening

Section 97. All nomination papers shall be sealed up and filed with the secretary of the city or town committee not less than ten week days previous to the day on which the caucus is to be held for which the nominations are made, and he shall endorse upon them the time when he received them. They shall not be opened until the time for their filing has expired, when the secretary, at his office, shall publicly open them and publicly announce the nominations therein made.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 98 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 98 - Correction of Errors; Notice

Section 98. The secretary of the city or town committee shall immediately give notice to the person filing the nomination paper of any error, irregularity or informality appearing therein, and such person may, within two week days after the time when the nomination papers were opened, correct the same, or said secretary may make such correction.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 99 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 99 - Proceedings in Cities When Papers Not Filed; Filling Vacancies

Section 99. If, in a city, nomination papers placing persons in nomination for all the offices to be filled at a caucus in any ward are not filed, the secretary of the city committee shall forthwith notify the chairman or secretary of the committee of such ward, who shall forthwith call a meeting of said committee, which may nominate candidates for all offices for which nomination papers have not been filed, and shall immediately file with the secretary of the city committee nomination papers signed by all the members of the committee who agree to the nominations therein made. In case of disagreement two sets of such nomination papers may be filed. If, at the expiration of two week days after the time at which nomination papers were opened, proper nomination papers have not been filed for all the offices to be filled, or upon any vacancy caused by death or otherwise, except a withdrawal, the chairman and secretary of the city committee may file nomination papers for such offices or vacancies.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 100 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 100 - Proceedings in Towns When Papers Not Filed

Section 100. If, in a town, nomination papers placing persons in nomination for all the offices to be filled at a caucus are not filed, or upon a vacancy by death or otherwise, except a withdrawal, the chairman or secretary of the town committee shall forthwith call a meeting of said committee, which shall have all the powers relative to the nomination of candidates conferred in the preceding section upon a ward committee and the chairman and secretary of a city committee.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 101 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 101 - Withdrawals; Filling Vacancies

Section 101. A person nominated by a nomination paper may, within forty-eight week day hours succeeding five o'clock in the afternoon of the day fixed for opening nomination papers, withdraw his name from nomination by a request signed by him in person and filed with the secretary of the city or town committee. Thereupon, the secretary shall immediately give notice of such withdrawal and of the provisions of this section to the person who filed such nomination paper, and such person may, within twenty-four week day hours succeeding five o'clock in the afternoon of the last day fixed for making withdrawals, present a new name on a nomination paper signed by himself in person; otherwise the chairman and secretary of the committee may file nomination papers for the vacancy. If at any time after the expiration of the time for filling vacancies it shall appear that a vacancy has been created by death, the chairman of the committee may file with the city or town clerk a new name to fill such vacancy; and if the time is sufficient therefor, the new name shall be printed upon the official ballot.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 102 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 102 - Nomination Papers; Delivery to City or Town Clerk

Section 102. Not less than seven week days before the day upon which the caucuses are to be held and before five o'clock in the afternoon of the last day, the secretary of each city or town committee shall deliver to the city or town clerk the nomination papers filed with him.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 103 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 103 - Nomination Papers; Correction of Errors

Section 103. If an error or informality is found in any nomination paper, it shall be forthwith returned to the secretary of the committee by whom it was filed, for correction; and if not corrected and again filed before five o'clock in the afternoon of the day following its return to said secretary, it shall be void.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 104 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 104 - Objections to Nomination Papers

Section 104. Objections to nomination papers, and all other questions relating thereto, shall be considered in cities by the board of registrars, the city clerk and the city solicitor; and in towns by the board of registrars.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 105 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 105 - Ballots; Provision by Cities or Towns

Section 105. Ballots for each political and municipal party, ballot boxes, voting lists, specimen ballots, blank forms and apparatus, seals and record books, shall be provided and treated in accordance with sections thirty-two to thirty-six, inclusive, so far as applicable, except that the chairman and secretary of the city or town committee, or, if they fail to do so, the city or town clerk, may determine the number of ballots to be provided for each ward or town, not exceeding one for each voter therein.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 106 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 106 - Form of Official Ballot

Section 106. On the back and outside of each ballot when folded shall be printed the words ''Official ballot of the (here shall be inserted the party name)'' followed by the number of the precinct and ward or the name of the town for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the caucus and a facsimile of the signature of the secretary of the political committee.  Ballots shall be printed on white paper, except as otherwise provided by law.  Names of candidates for caucus officers shall be arranged in groups in the order in which they are filed.  Against the name of a candidate for an elective or caucus office shall be printed the street and number, if any, of his residence.  A star (*) against a name shall indicate that a person is a candidate for re-election.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 107 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 107 - Applicability of Certain Laws

Section 107. Caucuses, except as otherwise provided, shall be held in general accordance with the laws governing the conduct of elections and the manner of voting thereat.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 108 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 108 - Order of Business

Section 108. The order of business shall be as follows:  First, Any necessary preliminary business.  Second, Balloting until half past eight o'clock in the evening, when the polls shall be closed unless the caucus shall vote to keep them open until a later hour; but every voter waiting in line at the hour for closing the polls shall be allowed to vote.  Third, After the polls have been closed, any other business properly before the caucus.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 109 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 109 - Challenges

Section 109. If the right of a person offering to vote is challenged for any legal cause, and he takes the oath required by section seventy-six, the presiding officer shall require him, or some one in his behalf, to write his name and residence on the outside of the ballot offered, and before it is received the presiding officer shall add thereto the name of the person challenging and the cause alleged for the challenge. No officer or other person shall give any information in regard to a ballot cast by a challenged voter unless required by law so to do.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 110 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 110 - Counting of Ballots; Announcement of Result; Sealing; Transmittal of Records

Section 110. Immediately after the polls have been declared closed, but not before, the ballots shall be counted in full view of the voters. When they have been counted and the result ascertained, the presiding officer shall make public announcement thereof in open meeting, and the clerk shall, in open meeting, enter in words at length in the record book, the total number of names checked on the voting list, the total number of ballots cast, the names of all persons voted for, the number of votes for each person, and the title of the office for which he was a candidate. The clerk shall forthwith make a copy of said record, certify, seal and transmit it to the city or town clerk. He shall then, before the adjournment of the caucus, and in the presence of those who counted the same, seal up all ballots cast, with the voting lists used, and a statement of any challenge made.  The warden and clerk shall endorse upon such package the name of the political party holding the caucus, its date, its purpose, and, if in a city, for what ward and precinct the ballots were cast. The warden shall forthwith transmit, by the officer detailed to attend the caucus, to the city or town clerk, the ballots cast, the voting lists, the ballot boxes, the ballot box seals, the counting apparatus, the copy of the records, and the record book.  The city or town clerk shall safely keep such sealed packages for ten days. If within said time ten voters entitled to vote in said caucus file with him a written request so to do, he shall preserve said ballots and voting lists for three months and shall produce them if required by any court having jurisdiction or authority over them.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 111 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 111 - Voting Lists; Certified Copies

Section 111. The city or town clerk, upon written application signed by at least ten voters of a ward or town, for a copy of a list as checked, shall open the envelope containing the voting list used at any caucus in such ward or town and shall furnish to them a certified copy thereof as checked.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 112 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 112 - Recount of Ballots

Section 112. If before five o'clock in the afternoon of the second day next succeeding the day of a caucus, ten or more voters of any town or ward shall sign, adding thereto their respective residences on January first of that year, and file with the city or town clerk a sworn statement that the records and returns made by the caucus officers of such town or ward are erroneous, specifying the error, or that challenged votes were cast by persons not entitled to vote therein, said city or town clerk shall forthwith transmit such statement to the registrars of voters with the sealed package containing the ballots and voting lists, and said registrars shall give written notice to the person affected, fixing a place and time, as early as may be, at which said ballots will be recounted, and at such place and time shall open the packages containing the ballots and voting lists and recount said ballots and determine the questions raised, and shall reject any challenged vote cast by a person found not to have been entitled to vote; and such recount shall stand as the true result of the vote cast in such caucus. Each candidate affected may be present during such recount, or may be represented by an agent appointed by him in writing. If it shall appear upon a recount that persons were nominated or elected other than those declared to have been nominated or elected, certificates of such change shall be made as in the case of the original certificate.
MA Gen L ch 53 § 113 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VIII - Elections|Chapter 53 - Nominations, Questions to Be Submitted to the Voters, Primaries and Caucuses|Section 113 - Caucus Officers; Eligibility; Terms; Oaths; Duties

Section 113. At the caucus held for the choice of candidates for a city or town election there shall be chosen annually a warden, a clerk, and at least five inspectors, and, in wards having more than five precincts, such additional inspectors as the city committee of the political party whose caucuses are to be held may determine. They shall be voters of the ward or town where elected and members of the political party whose caucus is to be held. No person shall be eligible to the position of warden, clerk or inspector who is a state, county or city employee, or a member of a ward or town committee, and no person shall serve as a caucus officer at any caucus wherein he is a candidate for nomination to an elective office. Every caucus officer shall hold office for one year, beginning with the first day of the month succeeding his election, and until his successor is elected. He shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn by the warden, clerk, or a justice of the peace, and a record thereof made upon the record book of such caucus. The respective duties of caucus officers shall be in general the same required of election officers at elections.