BY MAIL: You may register by mail by downloading, completing, signing and mailing a Federal Voter registration form  to us at: City Clerk’s Office, Room 323, 200 Pleasant St., Malden, MA 02148. Please note that the form cannot be submitted electronically, as state and federal law require that your voter registration contain an original signature.
 

IN PERSON: You may register to vote by completing and signing a Voter Registration form at any of the following locations:
the local election office in any city or town;
a special registration event;
the Registry of Motor Vehicles;
a variety of state offices, including a Transitional Assistance Office, the Commission for the Blind, the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission office, an office of the Department of Mental Health, an office of the Department of Mental Retardation;
the Secretary of State’s Office.

Within a few weeks of registering, you should receive an acknowledgment notice, which will tell you where to vote. Please retain this letter until you have voted for the first time.

Although you may register to vote at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, the Registry does not provide us with changes of address. Therefore, if you have recently moved to Malden, you will probably need to re-register as a voter.

Once you have registered to vote, you will remain registered as long as you live in Malden and answer your city census in January of each year.

If you move after you have answered the annual census and would like to vote from your new address, you should notify the City Clerk’s Office that you have moved.

If you do not respond to the census, you will become an inactive voter. Inactive voters are allowed to vote only if they produce picture ID and complete an affidavit of residence at the polling place on election day.

Any registered voter can vote by absentee ballot if he or she:

• will be away from the city on election day;
• is prevented by a physical disability from going to the polls; or
• is prevented by religious belief from going to the polls.

To obtain an absentee ballot, you may download, complete, sign and mail an absentee ballot application to us at: City Clerk’s Office, Room 323, 200 Pleasant St., Malden, MA 02148.

Please note that the form cannot be submitted electronically, as state and federal law require that your absentee ballot request contain an original signature.

Ballots are available approximately four weeks before an election and will be mailed to you as soon as a completed application is received.

Please note that, unless you entered the hospital within five days of the election, applications must be received by noon the day before an election and must be returned before the polls close on election day.

If you have been hospitalized within five days of the election, you or a relative may apply for an absentee ballot at any time, including election day. In this instance only, the ballot may be hand carried to you by a family member from the City Clerk’s Office.

Generally, your birth record will be recorded in the community where you were born and in the community where your parents lived on the day of your birth. To verify that we have your birth record, e-mail cityclerk@cityofmalden.org or call (781) 397-7116.

You may obtain a copy of your birth record either in person at the City Clerk’s Office or by mail. The fee is $10. Please note that requests for birth records cannot be made via telephone or fax, nor can certified copies be faxed to you.

To obtain a copy by mail, send a written, signed request containing all of the following:

• name (married women should provide their maiden name);
• date of birth;
• a check or money order payable to the City of Malden;
• a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Our address is: City Clerk’s Office, 200 Pleasant St., Room 323, Malden, MA 02148.

All mail requests are filled on the day they are received.
 

Generally, death records will be kept in the community where the death occurred and in the community where the decedent lived at the time of death. To verify that we have a death record, e-mail cityclerk@cityofmalden.org or call (781) 397-7116.

You may obtain a copy of a death record either in person at the City Clerk’s Office or by mail. The fee is $10. Please note that requests for death records cannot be made via telephone or fax, nor can certified copies be faxed to you.

To obtain a copy by mail, send a written, signed request containing all of the following:

• name;
• date of death, if known;
• a check or money order payable to the City of Malden;
• a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Our address is: City Clerk’s Office, 200 Pleasant St., Room 323, Malden, MA 02148.

All mail requests are filled on the day they are received.

Marriage records are kept in the community where the marriage license was obtained, not where you were married. To verify that we have a marriage record, e-mail cityclerk@cityofmalden.org or call (781) 397-7116.

You may obtain a copy of a marriage record either in person at the City Clerk’s Office or by mail. The fee is $10. Please note that requests for marriage records cannot be made via telephone or fax, nor can certified copies be faxed to you.

To obtain a copy by mail, send a written, signed request containing all of the following:

• names;
• date of marriage;
• a check or money order payable to the City of Malden;
• a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Our address is: City Clerk’s Office, 200 Pleasant St., Room 323, Malden, MA 02148.

All mail requests are filled on the day they are received.

State law and city ordinance require that all dogs over the age of 6 months be licensed annually by the city.

To obtain a dog license, you may download and complete a Dog License Application. Mail the form to the City Clerk’s Office with a $15 fee and proof that your dog has been vaccinated for rabies.
Once your dog has been licensed, you will receive a renewal notice by mail in December of each year.

Food stamps may be obtained through your regional Department of Transitional Assistance.  The local  DTA office is located on the fourth floor in Malden Government Center, 200 Pleasant St.

Social Security is located at 192 Commercial Street, Malden.