From the Metrowest Daily News:

Jim Henderson, independent candidate for secretary of state, said a mailing from Galvin’s office, intended to inform voters across Massachusetts about ballot questions and election procedures, included additional information intended to boost the secretary’s candidacy.

The mailing, Henderson said, is “clearly designed to be a campaign piece without it being officially a campaign piece … Let’s call a spade a spade here.”

Henderson compared the mailing to Lottery ads run by the treasury that have become enmeshed in legal controversy surrounding Treasurer Tim Cahill’s independent campaign for governor. Critics allege the Lottery ads were intended to boost Cahill’s candidacy on the taxpayers’ dime. Attorney General Martha Coakley is investigating the matter and the ads have been suspended.

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