State and Presidential Election Tuesday – Polls open early at 6:30am
Tuesday, November 6 – Polls open 6:30am-8:00pm
Hopkinton Middle School Brown Gym
Absentee Ballots due by 12noon tomorrow, Monday, November 5 – Go to the Town Clerk’s office on the first floor of Town Hall to vote by absentee ballot. http://www.hopkintonma.gov/home/government/departments/clerk
Info on Elections: http://www.wheredoivotema.com
Info on State Ballot Questions: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/message12.htm
What’s on the Hopkinton Ballot:
- Electors for President and Vice President of the United States
- JOHNSON AND GRAY, LIBERTARIAN http://www.garyjohnson2012.com
- OBAMA AND BIDEN, DEMOCRAT http://www.barackobama.com
- ROMNEY AND RYAN, REPUBLICAN http://www.mittromney.com/
- STEIN AND HONKALA, GREEN-RAINBOW http://www.jillstein.org/
- Senator in US Congress
- SCOTT P. BROWN, REPUBLICAN (Incumbent) http://www.scottbrown.com/
- ELIZABETH A. WARREN, DEMOCRAT http://elizabethwarren.com
- Representative in US Congress (4th District)
- SEAN BIELAT, REPUBLICAN http://www.seanforcongress.com/
- JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, III, DEMOCRAT http://joekennedy2012.com/
- DAVID A. ROSA, INDEPENDENT (no campaign website found)
- Councillor
- ROBERT L. JUBINVILLE, DEMOCRAT http://www.votejubinville.com/
- EARL H. SHOLLEY, REPUBLICAN http://sholleyforcongress.us/
- Senator in General Court (2nd Middlesex and Norfolk District)
- KAREN E. SPILKA, DEMOCRAT (Incumbent) http://electkarenspilka.com/
- Representative in General Court (8th Middlesex District)
- CAROLYN C. DYKEMA, DEMOCRAT (Incumbent) http://www.dykemaforrep.com/
- MARTIN A. LAMB, REPUBLICAN http://www.electmartylamb.com/
- Clerk of Courts (Middlesex County)
- MICHAEL A. SULLIVAN, DEMOCRAT (Incumbent) http://www.michaelsullivan.us/
- Register of Deeds (Middlesex Southern District)
- MARIA C. CURTATONE, DEMOCRAT http://www.mariacurtatone.com/
- Sherrif (Middlesex County)
- PETER J. KOUTOUJIAN, DEMOCRAT http://www.sheriffkoutoujian.com/
- ERNESTO M. PETRONE, UNENROLLED http://www.petroneforsheriff.org/
- State Ballot Question 1– Right to Repair / Safe and Fair Repair
- A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law requiring motor vehicle manufacturers to allow vehicle owners and independent repair facilities in Massachusetts to have access to the same vehicle diagnostic and repair information made available to the manufacturers’ Massachusetts dealers and authorized repair facilities. http://massrighttorepair.com/
- A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws. http://skipquestion1.com/
- State Ballot Question 2– Death with Dignity / Assisted Suicide
- A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law allowing a physician licensed in Massachusetts to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally-ill patient meeting certain conditions, to end that person’s life. http://www.yesondignity.com/
- A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws. http://www.stopassistedsuicide.org/
- State Ballot Question 3– Eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medical use of marijuana
- A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medial use of marijuana allowing patients meeting certain conditions to obtain marijuana produced and distributed by new state-regulated centers or, in specific hardship cases, to grow marijuana for their own use. http://www.compassionforpatients.com/
- A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws. http://mavotenoonquestion3.com/