Kathy Navetta, sister of current Middlesex North Register of Deeds Richard Howe Jr., stands with Councilwoman Vesna Nuon, a longtime friend, outside Lowell’s Daley Middle School on Tuesday, Nov. 5 2024. Nuon held signs for State Senator Ed Kennedy and State Representative candidate Tara Hong. (Photo by Aleah Landry)

Jim Cassella, husband of Middlesex North Registrar of Deeds candidate Karen Cassella, shakes hands with a voter outside Daley Middle School in Lowell on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, as supporter Brian Campbell looks on by Karla Miller, right. Miller is a Republican candidate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Ed Kennedy. (Photo by Aleah Landry)

Jim Pope, right, chairman of the Lowell Election Commission, helps a couple identify their voting location on a precinct map in the Bureau of Elections and Census office at City Hall, Nov. 5, 2024. (Melanie Gilbert/Lowell Sun)

Randy Tyndall of Westford, left, was a nonpartisan poll observer at Collegiate Charter School in Lowell on Nov. 5, 2024. At right is Precinct Manager Ron Peachtree. (Melanie Gilbert/Lowell Sun)

Jim Pope, Chairman of the Lowell Election Commission, stands in front of a precinct map in the basement office of the Elections and Census Bureau at City Hall, November 5, 2024. (Melanie Gilbert/Lowell Sun )

A secure drop box for ballots was available in the lobby of the Lowell Police Department. Ballots were also dropped off at the Elections and Census Office in the basement of City Hall until 8 p.m. on November 5, 2024. (Melanie Gilbert/Lowell Sun)

Collegiate Charter School in Lowell was one of 13 polling places for the November 5, 2024 general election. (Melanie Gilbert/Lowell Sun)

French bulldog Bruce Anderson, 6, sits in his car as he joins his family to campaign for Karen Cassella outside Reilly Elementary School in the Belvidere neighborhood of Lowell, November 5, 2024. Bruce is owned by Cassella’s daughter, Alycia Anderson, who was joined. by her sister Morghan Cassella at the Ward 3 polling place. Karen Cassella won the Middlesex North Registrar of Deeds position during the Democratic primary in September. (Photo by Aleah Landry)

Campaign signs for state Rep. candidate Tara Hong sit on a pile of leaves outside Daley Middle School in Lowell on Election Day. (Photo by Aleah Landry)