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April 30, 2013 Senatorial Primary Election

Special State Primary Breakdown

Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Not sure where to vote? If you already know your ward and precinct, check the list of city voting locations, or use the interactive ward map to look for polling places by neighborhood.

City of Springfield 2013 Census

General Laws of Massachusetts mandate an annual street listing of residents as of January 1 of each year.  As part of this process we are making it more convenient for the residents of Springfield to respond to the annual city census.  If you did not return the form mailed to your home or if you lost the form, download a copy of the census to print, fill out and return. Failure to respond to the census shall result in removal from the active voting list and may result in removal from the voter registration rolls. Listed below are options that we hope will make responding to your Census as easy as possible:

• Call 787-6185 if you have any questions or no changes to your census.
• Send by fax to 787-6186
• Drop off to Room #8 on the ground floor of City Hall
• Fill out the census online and submit it electronically via E-mail to goyola@springfieldcityhall.com (Download Electronic Form)
• If you have any questions regarding the Dog License portion of the census you can call the Clerks Office at 787-6094

The Municipal Ballot Question Committee

A ballot question committee is defined as “a political committee which receives or expends money or other things of value for the purpose of favoring or opposing the adoption or rejection of a specific question or questions submitted to the voters including, without limitation, a charter change, an initiative or referendum question or a constitutional amendment.” If you are thinking of undertaking any activity related to a ballot question, we urge you to contact OCPF or our office prior to doing so, because expenditures made before a question is placed on the ballot may be subject to the provisions of Chapter 55. If a ballot question appears on a municipal ballot, a committee favoring or opposing such a question must register its committee and file reports with the Election Commission prior to raising any money. 

Please find committees listed below who have filed reports with the Springfield Board of Elections:

• Citizens Against Casino Gaming
• Yes for Springfield

Campaign Finance Reporting

The campaign finance law currently requires local election officials to make campaign finance reports available for public inspection and copying during normal business hours.  A change to Section 26 expands that reponsiblity by requiring local election officials to post any campaign finance report on their municipal web site if the report discloses activity (receipts, expenditures or liabilities) of $1,000 or more during a reporting period.  The following is a list of School Committee members that meet this criteria, click on their name to see their CPF M 102 report for 2012:

• Christopher Collins
• Barbara J. Gresham
• Denise M. Hurst
• Peter M. Murphy
• Antonette Pepe
• Norman Roldan

Campaign Finance Memo

For more information regarding the Office of Campaign Finance click here.

What is the Depository Reporting System?

The depository reporting system was established by Section 19 of M.G.L. Chapter 55, the Massachusetts campaign finance law. Candidates and committees in this reporting system arrange for their financial institutions to file monthly reports with OCPF listing their total monthly deposits and providing detailed information about the committee's expenditures. In addition, these candidates file monthly reports of contribution information, and, if applicable, detailed reports for any reimbursement or credit card payments made by the committee. For candidates on the ballot, the frequency of reporting increases to twice-monthly in the last six months of an election year. These candidates and committees are also responsible for filing year-end summary reports.  Depository candidates and committees include seats in cities with 100,000+ Populations this includes the communities of: Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Springfield and Worcester.Below are CPF D 103 forms that have been filed with our office.  For more information click here.

• Calvin McFadden

Local Offices

Candidates for office in a city or town (mayor, city council/alderman, school committee) file campaign finance reports with their local election officials (city or town clerk or election commission). The exceptions are:

• Mayoral and City Council candidates in Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Springfield and Worcester. These candidates e-file with OCPF in the Depository reporting system.
• Mayoral candidates in cities with populations of 40,000 to 100,000. These candidates e-file with OCPF in the non-depository reporting system.  For more information follow this link.

Municipal candidates, ballot question committees, local party committees and locally-based political action committees file organizational forms on the local level. Local party committees also file organizational forms with OCPF, the Secretary of State and their respective state party.

 As we receive them below will be a list of candidates that have filed a CPF 101 form with our office:

• Calvin McFadden

Download forms: City census, absentee ballot applications

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Election returns - Springfield vote totals