No one mailed me a registration form. I had to go to City Hall to register. Should I sue someone?? Why should we cater to people who are so disinterested that they can't bother to register? Are they likely to make informed decisions? Oh wait! maybe being informed shouldn't count! asking that voters actually pay attention to and care about the issues is so un-PC and would weaken the Democrats' base.

So let me get this straight.....We have to spend lots of money to tell people they can register to vote? WHY? When I was in junior high our social studies teacher taught us all about government and the right to vote. He told us that when we turn 18 to go down to city hall and register to vote. Do we still teach social studies in school? Do people still learn about the history of our country and how women had to fight for the right to vote? Do we not teach our high schoolers how important it is to vote in a democratic society? Do we teach them that people in other countries do not always have the right to vote and how sacred that right is? Someone please tell me why we have to TELL people to register to vote? Heck, we have tons of registered voters who don't vote anyway.

Pretty sad day when you file a law suit because you can't manage to get to city hall and register to vote. do you have a problem walking, talking, you seem to know how to get benefits, just disgusting, have some pride. Elizabeth and her daughter are up to no good, get as many people to register, if you don't show up to vote, we'll take care of it for you.

So why hasn't anyone mailed me a voter registration form (free of charge)? This is such bs and the height of hypocrisy from the Globe. Whatever happened to equal protection under the law??

Funny comments here! You all subscribe to a newspaper online so have access to register to vote online or back when you got your driver's license! This effort is to help people that most likely don't have driver's licenses or computers. Those of you here also had the opportunity when applying to college. You may register to vote: in person or by mail, by completing a mail-in registration form and delivering it to your city or town election office, or at any local election office in any city or town in the state and at any registration event you encounter anywhere in Massachusetts, or when applying for or renewing your driver's license at the Registry of Motor Vehicles or when applying for service at a designated voter registration agency. Registration forms are also available at all colleges, universities, high schools and vocational schools.

"which was filed on behalf of a Lowell woman who received welfare benefits for 10 years but was never offered a chance to register to vote." She can have a lawsuit filed on her behalf, but she can't fill out a voter registration card?

This is so biased it is insane. If there was a campaign to register people making more than $200K in MA there would be outcry of the advantage this gives to republicans. But in this case, it is just, hey, we are just following the rules like we were told to do. Pathetic.

"the mother-daughter connection looks a little cozy,"...Globe-speak for not-necessarily illegal Like Mc Laughlin & Murray??. Take another adjective out of petty cash for yourselves.

Another example of the Political-Industrial Complex that Massachusetts has elevated to an art form. Connected family members get "cozy" jobs that plug them into a network of like minded people who have made a lively hood out of jobs that exist on the edge of government. The state is ripe with these people (Meade, Guzzi, Wiedmier, Grogan, Larson, Brennan and on and on). This is one is more dangerous because it is a thinly disguised political action group funded by the state.

The Boston Globe just exposed that they have no credibility and that you can't trust them.

So in Globespeak,using state resources to improperly promote one's candidacy is OK? Has anyone alerted Tim Cahill to this editorial?

Scott Brown's own mother supported him as a child by collecting welfare benefits, yet he still believes welfare recipients are only Democrats? Why isn't he going after the support of these newly registered voters? We know they are eligible to vote, so shouldn't he, as their elected representative, seek to represent their interests?

What's next? Sending registration reminders to illegal aliens?

Add in the timing of this attempt to redress these non-voters' trampled rights, and you have another cause to add to this "cozy mother-daughter" arrangement. Come on--it's about CONTINUING to game the system any way you can

did any of the whiners actually read what they are commenting about?? look at the dates, you fools. and no, there is NO connection between poor people and illegal aliens. except, perhaps, in your mind. Scott Brown has nothing to say about the real conspiracy of right wing fringe lunatics about someone's birth certificate but he can sure get all whipped up about Warren's family word-of-mouth genealogy and Warren's daughter. Scott Brown has been part of the Do Nothing Senate Republicans. For a guy who does nothing, he is awfully active when it comes to fake issues in his campaign.

I think it's a bad idea for Brown to criticize giving legitimate eligible citizens access to voting. I find it distasteful. I also find the Republicans feeding frenzy on voter identification efforts outrageous, especially so close to a major election. I was disappointed that the PA judge upheld the new law. Not only are people going to be denied access, there is little time for voter education efforts and for people to comply. Also, I believe it's going to cause lengthy delays during voting time.