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Date: 8/24/2022
HUNTINGTON – Voters in Huntington will be voting in two different elections on Sept. 6.
A special municipal election for an open seat on the Selectboard and for a Huntington representative on the School Committee will take place concurrently with the state primary election on Sept. 6 at Stanton Hall, 26 Russell Rd., from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
There is a separate ballot for the special municipal election. The sole name on the ballot is Selectboard candidate William Hathaway of Pisgah Road. Hathaway is hoping to fill the term vacated by Karon Hathaway, which ends on June 30, 2023.
There are no candidates listed for the open Huntington representative seat on the Gateway Regional School Committee, but Montgomery Road resident Lisa D. Goding is running an active write-in campaign for the seat. There is a blank space for write-in candidates under the School Committee on the ballot.
For voters, the process will be pretty much the same as usual, according to Town Clerk Linda Hamlin. She said the primary ballots available at Stanton Hall on Election Day are two different colors according to party, and the special municipal election will be a third color.
Hamlin said on the day of the election voters will check in as usual to receive their Democratic or Republican primary ballot, but will also visit a second check-in table next to the primary check-in table to pick up a second ballot for the municipal election. They will take both ballots into the voting cubicle, mark them, then check out and insert both ballots into the ballot box, one after the other.
Both mailed and in-person early voting are available, concurrently for both elections. Hamlin said just like on Election Day, voters who apply for mail-in early voting will get two ballots in the mail. If unenrolled in a particular party, voters must be sure to specify which party’s primary ballot they wish to vote.
“They will also get two EV-7 interior envelopes which they will need to sign and date and put the proper ballot in the proper envelope (the town election envelope is marked ‘town election envelope’ and is a slightly different color),” she said.
“So far, I have mailed out 140 early voting ballots to voters who sent in early voting application forms,” Hamlin said on Aug. 17.
In-person early voting hours for both the state primary and special municipal election are scheduled for Aug. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Town Hall, and during office hours by appointment only between 6 and 8 p.m. on Aug. 29 and Aug. 31, according to Hamlin.