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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Polling sites in eight Massachusetts communities will be monitored by federal officials during Election Day on Tuesday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will place federal election monitors in Everett, Fitchburg, Leominster, Lowell, Malden, Methuen, Salem, and Quincy.
According to the DOJ announcement, this operation will be coordinated by the Civil Rights Division and comes as growing concerns over election fraud have been on the rise. Personals from several departments will be onsite at each community to answer questions and receive complaints from the public.
In all, 86 counties in 27 states across the country will have election monitors, the most in two decades. This is an effort to ensure federal voting rights laws are being enforced.
According to Secretary of the Commonwealth William Glavin, this year’s voter turnout is expected to break the state’s previous record. 76 percent of all mail-in ballots have been returned and 582,122 early voter ballots have been received. Nearly 32 percent of all Massachusetts registered voters have casted their ballots.
More information on the general election can be found on Secretary of State William F. Galvin’s website.
WBZ NewsRadio's Mike Macklin reports.
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