Skip to Content  General Laws  Section 55. Registrars shall,
from the names entered in the annual register and from the names
maintained on the inactive voters list, prepare voting lists for
use at elections; provided, however, that such registrars shall
not enter the names of women voters in separate columns or
lists. In such voting lists, such registrars shall place the
names of all voters entered on the annual register and those
maintained on the inactive voters list and opposite to the name
of each his residence and party enrollment. The registrars shall
maintain separate voting lists for active and inactive voters or
one voting list if inactive voters are designated as such on the
voting list. In cities they shall prepare such voting lists by
wards, and if a ward or town is divided into voting precincts,
they shall prepare the same by precincts. In all such cities and
in towns having five thousand or more inhabitants, the voting
lists shall be arranged by streets in alphabetical order, and
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