Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court August 16, 1983 (Cepulonis v. Secretary of the Commonwealth)

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Abrams, J.

At issue is the right of prisoners, incarcerated in Massachusetts, to register to vote in State elections by absentee ballot. Relying principally on art. 3 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth,

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the plaintiffs, two long-term prisoners at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, commenced this action challenging G. L. c. 51, §§ 42-47R, and G. L. c.