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About 15 percent of Massachusetts voters in 2024 — 770,000 people — were listed as inactive, typically because they didn’t respond to an annual letter from their city or town asking them to verify their address. Those voters faced an additional hurdle when they showed up at the polls: they had to present ID or otherwise verify their address.
“A large number of residents of cities and towns don’t even know that not responding demotes them as a voter,” said Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts. “We know that expecting a voter to provide some sort of proof of residency alone can be a major barrier to voting — not everyone has readily on their person at any given moment an ID.”…