Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin ordered a complete overhaul of how Boston conducts elections following an investigation that revealed some precincts did not receive enough printed ballots for the 2024 election. 

“It has been determined that the Boston Election Department failed to supply polling locations with a sufficient number of ballots causing some locations to run out of ballots for a significant period of time,” the investigator’s report stated. “This resulted in voters in the City experiencing needless and unacceptable delays in voting and, in some cases, disfranchisement because the voter was unable to wait.”