Massachusetts residents are supposed to stay at home, but its political candidates will not get an extension on their deadlines to collect signatures to get on the ballot.
Republicans say the upshot is that upstart candidates from the GOP will have a much harder time getting their names on the ballot to go against entrenched Democratic politicians.
On Monday, the town council for New Shoreham, the name of the town that encompasses all of Block Island, declared that all non-residents leave the island, as Patch reports. The policy went into effect on Tuesday, March 24.
