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AG Healey: ‘There is a safe and secure way to vote’

BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey spoke in front of about two hundred people at a Roxbury mosque about voting options for 2020 and making the rights known through multilingual flyers.

“We communicate all the time in my office in all different languages,” Healey said outside The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.

Her staff handed out flyers in Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole to those leaving following morning prayer.

“There has been some concerns raised about the validity of the ballot process, the mail-in votes,” said Mir Shuttari, board member of the center.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken against mail-in voting.

Shuttari said concerns over mail-in voting have caused anxiety among voters he knows and others have trepidation about voting in-person during the pandemic.

“We’ve been telling them it doesn’t matter how but make sure you have voted,” Shuttari said.

Voters have more options than before with in-person, early in-person, absentee ballots and mail-in voting.

“We just want to be clear with people that look you have the right to vote you should feel secure in your right to vote you should trust the mail-in process,” Healey said.

Early in-person voting starts October 17th and ends October 30th.

The Attorney General’s office built a website on efforts to protect voters' rights that can be found here.