Polls are open in every Island town this week for early primary voting.
Julia Wells

Early Voting Begins Today on the Vineyard

<p>Early voting begins today on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard in the run-up to the much-watched Super Tuesday presidential primary day next week. Polling will be held in every Island town running through Friday.

Early voting begins today on Martha’s Vineyard in the run-up to the much-watched Super Tuesday presidential primary day next week. Sample ballots for the Democratic and Republican party primaries appear below.

Primary day in Massachusetts is Tuesday, March 3, along with 13 others states.

Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia will also hold presidential primaries Tuesday.

Early voting will be held in every Island town beginning today and running through Friday. Polling hours are variable on a town-by-town basis.

The schedule and locations follow:

Aquinnah, town hall: Monday, noon to 4 p.m.; Tuesday, noon to 4 p.m.; no voting Wednesday; Thursday, noon to 4 p.m.; Friday, noon to 3 p.m.

Chilmark, town hall: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon.

Edgartown, town hall: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Oak Bluffs, town clerk’s office, town hall: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tisbury, emergency services facility: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Sample Libertarian ballot
Sample Libertarian ballot

West Tisbury, town hall: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 08:42

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Lionel Spiro Chappy

It would be great if sample ballots could be shown on MV Gazette web site or as links in article.

Everyone Everywhere

Thank you but you have to really zoom in (at least on mobile) in order to read the ballots plus the images run in a slideshow so I can only look at a ballot for a few seconds before the image changes.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 09:08

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Voter Edgartown

Are the early votes counted along with Tuesday’s votes? I was disappointed to learn that absentee ballots in the presidential election are only counted later, after the preliminary results are reported. Please clarify, we all want our votes to count, thank you!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 13:10

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Tara J. Whiting-Wells town clerk, West Tisbury

From the Secretary of the Commonwealths web page

When Absentee Ballots are Counted

Except for ballots which are rejected as defective, all absentee ballots are cast and counted by the poll workers on Election Day. Absentee ballots are included in the final tallies, and are counted whether or not an election contains a close race.

For the six towns on Martha's Vineyard, Early ballots are processed the same way.

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