WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts Republican party officials are making changes in voting procedures for their upcoming state convention in Worcester.
The party is switching from paper ballots to an electronic voting system to select among candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and other offices on Saturday. The GOP is also giving delegates the option of voting “no preference” if they don’t like any of the choices.
The moves comes four years after convention officials said gubernatorial candidate Mark Fisher fell just short of the 15 percent of votes he needed to advance to the primary. Fisher argued that in determining the total number of votes cast, the party included ballots that had been left blank.
Fisher was eventually allowed on the 2014 primary ballot and lost to the state’s future Republican governor, Charlie Baker.
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