The latest Beacon Hill bills created in response to the coronavirus pandemic would allow early voting by mail ahead of the state primary and general elections if the state of emergency remains in effect.

Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem’s bill, S.D. 2911, would enable a voter could ask a local election official for a mail-in ballot as an early voter due to COVID-19. Under the bill, all early voting ballots would need to be received by the town clerk before polls close on Election Day.

“It is critical that we not make people choose between their health and exercising their right to vote,” said Creem, a Newton Democrat.

The bill will likely be referred to the Committee on Election Laws, Creem said.

U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, who is running to unseat U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, asked the state Legislature to pass a vote-by-mail bill for Election Day.

Sen. Becca Rausch and Rep. Adrian Madaro filed legislation, S.D. 2912, that would send mail-in ballots to voters and personal protective equipment to poll workers if the coronavirus pandemic has not passed. The bill required that a mail-in ballot be postmarked by Election Day and get to a city or town clerk within 5 days of the election.

Democrats in some states, such as Wisconsin, have argued for more voting by mail during the pandemic, but efforts to expand mail-in voting have had mixed results in the courts. Last week, the Supreme Court blocked a federal court order that allowed Wisconsin to continue to process mail-in ballots for up to six days after the state’s April 7 primary election.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers ordered to stop the primary, but the state Supreme Court reversed the order after Republicans challenged him in court.

President Donald Trump weighed in on the vote-by-mail issue last week during his daily press briefing, claiming “mail ballots are corrupt.”

The fact-checking site at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, FactCheck.org, states that there is “no evidence to back up Trump’s blanket claim.”

Rausch and Madaro’s bill would require Secretary of State William Galvin’s office to send ballots to registered voters at least 18 days before a state election, as well as a secrecy sleeve to cover the results and a postage-paid envelope addressed to the voter’s municipal clerk.

Each envelope would include an affidavit that a voter must sign and instructions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Haitian.

For state primary elections, unenrolled voters could request a specific party’s ballot, according to the bill. The voter would need to make the request at least 35 days ahead of the election.

Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, executive director of MassVOTE, said the SD.2912 does not make voting accessible enough because ballots wouldn’t be available in Vietnamese or Khmer. Nor does the bill specify what kind of personal protective equipment poll workers would be entitled to if the state of emergency remains in effect.

Crawford also said the provisions in the bill should be permanent, rather than temporary measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the bill, these changes would expire Dec. 31.

“Instead of merely bridging the gap during this crisis, vote-by-mail should become the new normal in Massachusetts," Crawford wrote in a statement. "The system is thriving in Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and there is no excuse that should prevent Massachusetts from joining the ranks of those states.”

Material from the State House News Service was used in this article.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated the bill number filed by Sen. Cynthia Creem.

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