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Straight Off The Long Weekend, Massachusetts Voters Head To The Primary Polls

A "vote here" sign in English and Spanish on sidewalk
Paul Tuthill
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WAMC

Massachusetts is holding an oddly timed primary on Tuesday.

The day after Labor Day can be a rude awakening for some as vacations end and frantic school and work schedules kick in. 

Now add a trip to a polling place for the Massachusetts Democratic and Republican primaries, and Springfield Elections Commissioner Gladys Oyola-Lopez predicts voter turnout could be depressed.

" A lot of people are on vacation and they are just not voting, unfortunately," she said in an interview Friday.

Massachusetts is the only state where voting is taking place Tuesday. Polls are open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.