How to get the Worcester County voter file
Request it from the office below, send us the file, and you're ready to cut turf. Running countywide or in just part of Worcester County? This is the office either way.
- Where to request it
- NO county elections agency exists. Worcester County government was abolished July 1, 1998. Voter rolls maintained by 60 individual city and town clerks within the county's geography (including City of Worcester, Fitchburg, Leominster, Gardner, Milford, Shrewsbury, Westborough, Auburn, Webster, etc.).No central contact. Examples: City of Worcester Election Commission, 455 Main St, Room 206, Worcester MA 01608, 508-799-1134, [email protected]; Fitchburg City Clerk, 718 Main St, Fitchburg MA 01420, 978-829-1810; Leominster City Clerk, 25 West St, Leominster MA 01453, 978-534-7536. Full directory at sec.state.ma.us local election office finder.
- Cost
- Voter list: typically free or nominal. Street list: $2-$25 per municipality.
- How to request
- Separate public records request to each of the 60 city/town clerks. M.G.L. c. 66 sec. 10. City of Worcester (largest, ~120K voters) has the most established process; smaller towns may require phone follow-up.
- Turnaround
- 10 business days per municipality under public records law; 2-8 weeks for full county coverage in parallel
- Use restrictions
- No commercial-use ban applies to a municipal list. M.G.L. c.51 s.55 furnishes the voting list free of charge, on request, to all duly organized political committees and to all political candidates for public office in the district, and for a reasonable fee to any person - it attaches no use restriction and names no permitted purpose. M.G.L. c.51 s.6 furnishes the annual street list free to political committees and candidates and requires registrars to make it available to business organizations and other nonpolitical organizations for a fee, the only condition being that the recipient sign a log kept by the city or town clerk - which forecloses reading Massachusetts as banning commercial acquisition. The restriction usually quoted is c.51 s.47C, and it is an ACCESS restriction on the STATEWIDE central registry (state party committees, statewide candidate committees, state ballot question committees and a few named officials), not a use restriction on the municipal lists these pages are about. Practical limit, not a legal one: format is inconsistent across 60 municipalities.
Costs and rules change, so confirm the current details with the office before you order. Once you have the file, we handle loading it, cutting turf, and getting your volunteers knocking.
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Get set up in Worcester County
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