The Town of Hull filed a second emergency motion as they seek to get results certified from the May 15 Annual Town Election.
Town Clerk Lori West says the motion was filed on Wednesday with the Plymouth County Superior Court and that they provided additional information to the Court describing the processes used to notify voters of the public safety emergency and extension of polling hours.
The Court is being asked to allow all votes “cast in good faith” between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., to be counted, which would allow the 2023 Annual Election to be certified.
West says this would lead to “the least possible disruption to the normal process of elections to finalize the 2023 Annual Town Election as well as protecting the rights of all voters.”
She also says that the Secretary of the Commonwealth Election Division “supports this option and strongly recommends against throwing out the over 2400 votes cast that day and holding another election.”
Polling hours were extended after a three alarm fire caused a closure of Q St. which led to traffic jams on surrounding streets.
