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The Burlington GOP Committee will host an election integrity panel discussion Friday, March 27 at Hunt Middle School.
Join your fellow residents for a public panel discussion on Election Integrity, and hear what is and isn’t being done to preserve your cherished voice at the polls.
This first of its kind event brings together in one place and time, experts from diverse and contrasting perspectives to answer this question: Do we make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat? Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas, Rob Roper, Montpelier City Clerk John Odum, and Ron Lawrence will explain their positions.
Save this date: Friday, 3/27 from 6-7:30 PM in Hunt Middle School auditorium.
Moderated by radio personality and co-host of The Morning Drive, Dan Feliciano, this is a unique opportunity for the public to evaluate the evidence as presented by Vermont’s foremost experts on this extremely important subject. Questions welcome.
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Good timing, now that Seth Keshel’s book is out.
We want federal agents checking for IDs. We want illegals arrested at the polling booth. That should be an independent monitoring every ballot that goes to that machine so there is no lying or cheating or extra ball being processed. Democrats are famous for stealing elections and Vermont is awful with the election fraud. It’s time to make everyone accountable and charge them if they are caught cheating.
The reality is that Burlington has a large voting population including students who rent and then leave without removing their names from voter registration. With mass mailings voting, everyone on the voter registration gets a ballot, even if they are long gone from from their voter address. It is easy for someone at that address to get that ballot, fill it out and send it back in the return envelope. No one knows the extent of this problem might be, as no one, especially the Secretary of State ever checks.
Students should be voting in their home states anyway!! If Burlington was doing their Grandlist properly this wouldn’t be happening! ID to vote is still an absolute necessity! No mail in ballots but Military and college out of State! Everyone comes to polls and votes in person, bottom line!
Great panel – diverse viewpoints. Vermonters, do you really want your vote to count?
VT Election Integrity – Sec of State – 1
Title 17
Item #2 – BCA Training
§ 2457. Workshops and information for election officials
(a) The Secretary of State or his or her designee shall organize regional workshops for election officials, provide them with informational materials about the conduct of elections and recounts, and otherwise help them run elections in conformance with State and federal law.
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(b) (2) The Secretary of State shall invite all members of the boards of civil authority to the workshops and provide them with informational materials.
These workshops for the BCAs have NOT been performed the entire time this Secretary of State has been in office. (Violation of the Law)
Item #1 – The Voter Checklist
While the VT Secretary of State’s refusal of a request from the Federal Government for Voter I.D, records, (based on) ;
§ 2154. Statewide voter checklist
(a) The Secretary of State shall maintain a uniform and nondiscriminatory statewide voter checklist. This checklist shall serve as the official voter registration list for all elections in the State. In maintaining the statewide voter checklist, the Secretary shall:
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(b)(2) A public agency as defined in 1 V.S.A. § 317 and any officer, employee, agent, or independent contractor of a public agency shall not knowingly disclose a copy of all of the statewide voter checklist, a municipality’s portion of the statewide voter checklist, or any other municipal voter checklist to any foreign government or to a federal agency or commission or to a person acting on behalf of a foreign government or of such a federal entity for the purpose of:
(A) registration of a voter based on his or her information maintained in the checklist;
(B) publicly disclosing a voter’s information maintained in the checklist; or
(C) comparing a voter’s information maintained in the checklist to personally identifying information contained in other federal or state databases.
If we look two paragraphs previous we find that the Secretary shall:
(a)(6) make reasonable efforts on an ongoing basis to compare the information on the checklist with data or information contained in any State agency’s database, a database administered by the federal government, or any database of another state or consortium of states, where possible, in an effort to maintain the accuracy and currency of the checklist.
So, even if Vermont is to NOT give our database to the Federal Agency, our law says the VT Secretary SHALL (on an ongoing basis) compare our database to a database administered by the federal government.
I do not believe this has occurred in the last many years, if ever! (Violation of the Law)
The question is, ‘Who will serve on this inspection of the statewide voter checklist?’
BCA have to following duties;
§ 2451. Board of civil authority
(a) The board of civil authority shall have charge of the conduct of elections within the political subdivision for which it is elected.
§ 2150. Removing names from checklist
(d)(2)(A)(ii) The board of civil authority may consider and rely upon official and unofficial public records and documents, including telephone directories, city directories, newspapers, death certificates, obituaries (or other public notices of death), tax records, and any checklist or checklists showing persons who voted in any election within the last four years.
§ 2143. Political representation on board of civil authority
(a) If the board of civil authority of any political subdivision does not contain at least three members of each major political party and the party committee or at least three voters request increased representation for an underrepresented major political party by filing a written request with the clerk of the political subdivision, the legislative body shall appoint from a list of names submitted to it by the underrepresented party a sufficient number of voters to the board of civil authority to bring the underrepresented major party’s membership on the board to three. A person’s name shall not be submitted unless he or she consents to serve if appointed.
It seems to me, that if we utilize the Boards of Civil Authority of each town, (with proper representation from all parties), AND follow the law; we should be able to get a lot of checking done!
Bruce Busa
Readsboro, VT
Bruce,
Boards of Civil Authority are not representationally constituted, as in my district in 2022, there were ZERO non D/P’s elected as JOP’s. It’s fixed on a granular level.
You do have recourse if your party is underrepresented:
Title 17 : Elections
Chapter 043 : Qualification And Registration Of Voters
Subchapter 002 : Registration Of Voters
(Cite as: 17 V.S.A. § 2143)
• § 2143. Political representation on board of civil authority
(a) If the board of civil authority of any political subdivision does not contain at least three members of each major political party and the party committee or at least three voters request increased representation for an underrepresented major political party by filing a written request with the clerk of the political subdivision, the legislative body shall appoint from a list of names submitted to it by the underrepresented party a sufficient number of voters to the board of civil authority to bring the underrepresented major party’s membership on the board to three. A person’s name shall not be submitted unless he or she consents to serve if appointed.
(b) The persons so appointed shall have the same duties and authority with respect to elections as have other members of the board, but those persons shall have no authority with respect to functions of the board of civil authority that are not related to elections. (Added 1977, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1979, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; 2001, No. 5, § 13; 2013, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
I am very aware of the mandated representation of each party on the BCA, but I live in a Town that is totally controlled by Libs and Progressives. I won’t spend time discussing all of the attempts I have made to join the BCA. I was finally able to get approval from the the BCA to be a volunteer during the last election. Whopee! I was treated so disrespectfully by one of the organizer I was barely able to last for two hours. I was also able to verify that it was only “them” counting ballots. I already knew not to waste my time contacting the SOS office, which was confirmed by folks in other towns. The fact that we are not able to receive support, as well as any action, from the top officials is a big concern for all of us. Again-this is not the State I grew up in.
Sounds to me like we might benefit from organizing BCA appointees (or minority representatives) across the state. I’ve heard these stories too. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Sounds like there may have been another election interferance issue with Gail’s situation;
§ 2584. Opening of ballot boxes; distribution of ballots After the closing of the polls, the presiding officer shall open the ballot boxes and distribute the ballots among the election officials in approximately equal numbers. As nearly as may be, election officials shall work in pairs while counting ballots, each pair consisting of members of different parties. Once ballots are distributed to a pair of election officials, that pair shall retain the same ballots throughout the counting process. If more than one kind of ballot has been used in the election, only one kind at a time shall be distributed.
The loop hole is VT calls the Prog and Dems “different” parties!
We’ve got some work to do, ehh!