After months under state receivership, Boston’s election department will make changes ahead of the mayoral preliminary vote next week to make sure Election Day goes smoothly.

Last year, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin ordered an overhaul of the Boston Election Commission after an investigation found it failed to provide enough ballots to polling places and exhibited serious communications issues during last November’s election . Extra ballots were rushed to polling places on election night via police cruisers.

Galvin appointed a designee in February to oversee the mayoral election process through the end of 2026; the order could potentially be extended.

In August, the department committed a clerical error and sent at least one voter more than one mail-in ballot . At

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