A proposal to convert Massachusetts’s state primary elections to “all-party primaries” is inching closer to appearing on the November ballot.

"Karen leaves very big shoes to fill," Taunton Elections Director Mark Pacheco said of retiring elections Clerk Karen Andrade.

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