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Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas announced Wednesday, October 7 that ballots have been mailed to all active registered voters for the November 3 General Election.
The Vermont legislature passed Act 60, in 2021, requiring the Secretary of State’s office to mail General Election ballots to all active registered voters. Known as “Universal Vote by Mail,” this practice is also used by California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Washington, D.C.
“Since Vermont began mailing General Election ballots to all active registered voters, we’ve seen voter turnout reach new records,” said Secretary Copeland Hanzas.
There are four main ways to cast your ballot in the November General Election.
- Follow the included instructions to mail your ballot back to your clerk’s office. (The Secretary of State’s office recommends doing so by October 20 – two weeks before Election Day – to ensure it’s received on time.)
- Bring your ballot to your clerk’s office in person during their regular business hours.
- Drop your ballot into an official ballot drop box any time before Election Day.
- If you want to vote in person on November 3rd, please bring your ballot with you to your polling place. The Accessible Voting System (AVS), a tablet-based interface, is available at every polling place in Vermont, allowing voters with disabilities to vote privately and independently.
Voters who arrive to vote in-person without their mailed ballot will need to sign an “Affidavit of No Ballot Cast” before receiving a new ballot to vote then and there.
Voters are encouraged to check in with their local clerk if they have not received their ballot by mid-October.
Secretary Copeland Hanzas also encouraged voters to visit the online Vermont Voter Portal: vote.vermont.gov. Voters can track their ballot’s progress and, after they return it, confirm their town or city clerk received it.
Voters can find their local clerk here: https://sos.vermont.gov/
Voters can find polling and drop box locations here: https://sos.vermont.gov/
They can also find this information (and more) in their Vermont Voter Portal: https://vote.vermont.gov
Other important resources from the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office:
- Election Security in Vermont (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2TKdTs0o6I
- How to register and vote in Vermont (Playlist – 14 languages): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0uaGz81U–6t3yJ5NTqXwuIhzC_17aL2&si=_WmE8IzDwdEcFI62
- Know Your Vermont Voting Rights: https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/vermont-voting-rights
- Accessible Voting System Overview (Video): https://youtu.be/MPGQWt-02UA
The General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026. The following offices are up for election: U.S. Representative to Congress, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor of Accounts, Attorney General, all 30 State Senate seats, all 150 State Representative seats, Probate Judge, Assistant Judges, State’s Attorney, Sheriff, High Bailiff, and Justices of the Peace. Two constitutional amendments are also on this year’s General Election ballot.
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Lots of good information here. Thank you
But wait… isn’t requiring someone to hand over a mailed ballot or requiring a signature the same as asking for ID? Doesn’t this discriminate against people who wish to vote in person?
Even though Trump ONLY votes by mail, it’s rife with fraud! The CIA told me through the implant in my tooth.
Before you consider your vote, watch the video on Not The Bee and watch Molly Grays reaction when Rogers asked her a question.
What about the Tracking code on everyone’s mailed ballots?
The Vermont Voter Bill of Rights says you have the right to a secret vote. If you vote by mail your name is coded on the ballot. That is not a secret vote.
I hope the president freezes all mail in ballots. Democrats use this and they have been using this for far too long to steal elections
Should he freeze his own main in ballot as well?
I voted from Overseas so the day the ballots arrived at the town clerks, mine went out the next day ,with NO tracking number ,Clerk said they don’t track ballots but there is a tracking bar code on the envelope , and it arrived 18 days later, this past Saturday, so could not mail it out until Monday, which makes 20 days or almost 3 weeks to get the ballot to me!
I duly filled it out, and my wife pointed out there was a return address sticker on the envelope with my name and address, visible to all, in the upper left hand corner, so by this having my name and address, ANYONE can see it is my ballot, with my vote inside, and given this, my vote can be targeted, so I return mailed it back registered mail ,cost 15 bucks, so I could track every step, in the mailing process, and was told it would take about a week, so that was Monday this week, and I checked today, Thursday, and it was still in Zurich awaiting transport.
Isn’t forbidden on a mail in ballot to put your return address on the envelope with the voted ballot inside? Can you check this Guy?
I’ll keep you all posted in tracking my ballot, because a couple elections back, my ballot arrived 3 days before the election, so no way I could mail from Central Europe to VT in 3 days, so my hard earned rights, by law, were denied, then the next election cycle I received my ballots, but no return envelope, nor address, so called the Town Clerk and was told, sorry, my mistake, human error…pretty nonchalant with my right to vote damn it so I consider Vermont’s voting process on par with a banana republic at best.
I am sharing this with Team Trump as they are well aware of the voting mess in left wing banana republic states.
I bet Ethan and Ira Allen are rolling over in their graves what became of what they fought for.
When I was attached to a US Navy ship deployed, I never received an absentee ballot until a month or more after the results were announced. I shared this with local leaders of both parties and never received a response. Don’t even ask about tax returns and the IRS.
The State mailed out all ballots this year, not the town clerks.
There is no return address sticker with the voters name on the prepaid return envelope.
The voter’s name is printed on the ballot envelope, which is to be placed inside the prepaid return envelope.
DAVID, My return envelope has a sticker with my name and address in the upper left hand corner so you are incorrect or the Sec of States office chose to do this to my ballot targeting me? It is possible.
William, My ballot arrived today via USPS and my enclosed return envelope does not have a sticker with my name and address in the upper left hand corner.
I’m live day to day in Vermont, and will presume all other full-time residents will find the same as I when opening their ballots.
Will you reach out directly to the VTSOS and ask if your situation is unique to overseas absentee ballots? I’m curious as to what response you will receive.
David, the Vermont voter bill of rights says you have the right to a secret vote. When you vote by mail you have to provide your name, town or city, signature and date. A ballot that you mail in that contains that information is not a secret vote.
Sorry, the person you voted for with this mail in ballot, died before the election. Hope you have better luck next time. Comment from Richard Day.
Banana Republic: “A small country, especially one in Central America, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.” If you were talking about the US at this moment, I’d say the part about the government is spot on!