Duxbury: Drive-up, drop-off voting sticks
With a second drive-up voting booth set up outside the town garage and town office, Duxbury voters cast their ballots from their vehicles on Town Meeting Day with all items passing handily.
Copeland Hanzas shares vision for Vermont’s elections
“We are really focused on the integrity of elections, making sure that voters know how to be registered and how to cast their ballot and make sure elections are safe, secure and accessible,” Copeland Hanzas said.
Letter: School board member reinstated in Wallingford after removed from voter checklist without due process
Everyone deserves to be treated the same. If we are to be inclusive, we must follow procedural due process to ensure there are no double standards.
National, state GOP file second noncitizen voting suit against Winooski
The Republican National Committee (RNC), Vermont Republican Party (VTGOP), and two concerned Vermont residents filed suit in Vermont Superior Court against the City of Winooski for allowing noncitizens to vote in its school board and budget elections.
Paid time off to vote for Town Meeting Day? A new bill would make it happen
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Joseph “Chip” Troiano, D-Stannard, said he drafted the bill after years of hearing comments about lacking attendance for Town Meeting Day and other elections.
Burlington voters deciding on six ballot initiatives
Burlington residents are out deciding six initiatives put to them on Town Meeting Day, including such hot-button topics as a citizen-led police oversight board and allowing voters to draft their own ordinances to put on the ballot.
Roper: Vermont’s mail-in ballot system is not secure
The way our elected election officials don’t seem to care and pretend this isn’t a problem makes me believe that this is not a bug in the system they’ve devised, but a feature.
10 new cases of vote fraud again demonstrate imperative of election security
In the latest update to The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, 10 new cases have been added, bringing the current count to 1,422 proven instances of election fraud. The database presents a sampling of cases from across the country.
Vermont SOS report: Signature verification would ‘put undue stress and burden onto our local municipalities’
If the purpose of an election system is to ensure public confidence and election integrity, trust in the electoral system must remain paramount. The Vermont Secretary of State acknowledges in its Report on Mailing Ballots that Vermont lacks ballot verification procedures.
Randolph to vote on police proposal
When Randolph voters hit the ballot box on Town Meeting Day, they will be deciding how to fill four spots on the selectboard and whether to boost the police budget to over $770,000 for the following fiscal year, up 121%.
Lynn Edmunds: No due process in voter challenge of Bruce Moreton
As the board began to deliberate, the calls for decisive action grew louder and louder, until finally all due process was replaced with the opinions and emotions of a small group on a mission — emphatically denying Mr. Moreton lives in Wallingford.
SOS report finds mail-in voting unworkable for primaries, municipal elections
A recent Vermont secretary of state report on mail-in voting determined that using this system for primaries and municipalities would be unworkable and costly.