Covid, too many Zoom hearings, the desire to retire, looming fiscal challenges, and just feeling like ‘it’s time’ are among the reasons why lawmakers are leaving in record numbers this year.
42 Vermont legislators, including 9 House committee chairs, won’t be seeking re-election to their current seats.
May 26 is the petition filing deadline for petitions to run in the August 9 primary for the Legislature and statewide and county offices.
“It was kind of a pain the way they do it. They just had our case worker give us an absentee ballot and we had to fill it out and mail it,” an inmate said.
Drop boxes, universal mailed ballots, and ballot harvesting – all crucial to the electoral fraud in six battleground states in the 2020 presidential election – are permitted in the pandemic election law passed by the Legislature in 2020.
Ann Pugh, the longtime Vermont House committee chair responsible for abortion and end-of-life legislation is the latest to announce she’s not running for re-election.
The Vermont Attorney General won’t seek re-election.
112 Vermont communities received Zuckerbucks for local elections in 2020.
A West Milton House member is running for the newly-created Senate seat, “Chittenden North.”
After returning home to places like Singapore and Egypt, former Middlebury College students voted in the 2020 general election.
