Prop 2 passed statewide by almost 8-1 vote
By Guy Page
On November 8, every Vermont city and town voted to amended the state constitution to prohibit slavery and indentured servitude.
Although presented in the Vermont Legislature as removing the last vestiges of pre-Civil War slavery from the state constitution, Proposal 2/Article 1 also was supported by criminal justice reform advocates who liken present-day incarceration to slavery.
Of the 291,955 ballots cast, 238,466 were filled in with a Yes vote, 30,335 No, 420 were ‘overvotes’ (discounted for voting both yes and no), and 22,734 were left blank.
The ratio of Yes to No votes was 7.86/1, more than twice the 3.31/1 ratio of Yes/No votes cast for Prop 5/Article 22, the ‘reproductive liberty’ amendment. However the 22,734 blank votes for Proposal 2 were almost 50% higher than the 15,340 for Prop 5, indicating possibly less knowledge about or more indifference to Prop 2 compared to Prop 5.
As with Prop 5, the heavily-Democratic, college staff bedroom town of Norwich had the highest Yes/No ratio: 26.3/1. Montpelier was about 19/1.
The following is a town-by-town vote count on Proposal 2:
ADDISON 555 108
ALBANY 332 79
ALBURGH 563 155
ANDOVER 247 48
ARLINGTON 981 129
ATHENS 126 37
BAKERSFIELD 447 76
BALTIMORE 89 16
BARNARD 464 44
BARNET 702 112
BARRE CITY 2,280 355
BARRE TOWN 2,928 558
BARTON 701 137
BELVIDERE 110 28
BENNINGTON 4,317 633
BENSON 338 92
BERKSHIRE 360 102
BERLIN 1,004 155
BETHEL 692 93
BLOOMFIELD 84 19
BOLTON 545 57
BRADFORD 958 129
BRAINTREE 454 91
BRANDON 1,383 213
BRATTLEBORO 4,530 287
BRIDGEWATER 338 51
BRIDPORT 470 97
BRIGHTON 308 61
BRISTOL 1,495 187
BROOKFIELD 578 114
BROOKLINE 237 21
BROWNINGTON 200 128
BRUNSWICK 46 6
BURKE 606 106
BURLINGTON 15,042 834
CABOT 586 103
CALAIS 781 72
CAMBRIDGE 1,468 140
CANAAN 262 50
CASTLETON 1,271 272
CAVENDISH 511 95
CHARLESTON 280 83
CHARLOTTE 2,027 115
CHELSEA 438 95
CHESTER 1,161 151
CHITTENDEN 544 103
CLARENDON 814 221
COLCHESTER 6,033 693
CONCORD 360 91
CORINTH 538 81
CORNWALL 619 35
COVENTRY 293 69
CRAFTSBURY 526 69
DANBY 482 99
DANVILLE 1,016 162
DERBY 1,427 301
DORSET 988 82
DOVER 565 67
DUMMERSTON 961 54
DUXBURY 595 64
EAST HAVEN 85 8
EAST MONTPELIER 1,246 103
EDEN 347 71
ELMORE 429 38
ENOSBURGH 797 171
ESSEX JUNCTION CITY 4,102 383
ESSEX TOWN 4,784 569
FAIR HAVEN 763 155
FAIRFAX 1,906 326
FAIRFIELD 685 138
FAIRLEE 418 34
FAYSTON 700 47
FERRISBURGH 1,263 181
FLETCHER 546 92
FRANKLIN 449 103
GEORGIA 1,742 303
GLOVER 423 70
GOSHEN 83 20
GRAFTON 276 43
GRANBY 19 11
GRAND ISLE 905 186
GRANVILLE 114 11
GREENSBORO 347 27
GROTON 345 78
GUILDHALL 102 25
GUILFORD 904 124
HALIFAX 310 71
HANCOCK 125 9
HARDWICK 888 135
HARTFORD 4,153 351
HARTLAND 1,412 168
HIGHGATE 908 247
HINESBURG 2,108 214
HOLLAND 192 55
HUBBARDTON 269 38
HUNTINGTON 979 76
HYDE PARK 1,104 153
IRA 166 31
IRASBURG 368 118
ISLE LA MOTTE 214 53
JAMAICA 353 35
JAY 191 40
JERICHO 2,576 285
JOHNSON 965 130
KILLINGTON 541 55
KIRBY 239 30
LANDGROVE 100 7
LEICESTER 343 80
LEMINGTON 25 9
LINCOLN 681 54
LONDONDERRY 699 76
LOWELL 230 84
LUDLOW 778 112
LUNENBURG 317 78
LYNDON 1,450 291
MAIDSTONE 98 8
MANCHESTER 1,871 152
MARLBORO 461 30
MARSHFIELD 581 112
MENDON 478 74
MIDDLEBURY 3,027 151
MIDDLESEX 836 96
MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS 393 69
MILTON 3,665 651
MONKTON 950 124
MONTGOMERY 490 82
MONTPELIER 3,893 207
MORETOWN 852 71
MORGAN 215 73
MORRISTOWN 2,124 235
MOUNT HOLLY 545 98
MOUNT TABOR 74 9
NEW HAVEN 784 101
NEWARK 223 54
NEWBURY 800 108
NEWFANE 798 68
NEWPORT CITY 1,037 202
NEWPORT TOWN 448 108
NORTH HERO 513 69
NORTHFIELD 1,566 228
NORTON 63 23
NORWICH 1,922 73
ORANGE 325 92
ORWELL 494 70
PANTON 292 33
PAWLET 596 119
PEACHAM 384 30
PERU 199 12
PITTSFIELD 232 32
PITTSFORD 1,004 192
PLAINFIELD 574 38
PLYMOUTH 251 42
POMFRET 518 34
POULTNEY 1,056 184
POWNAL 1,078 233
PROCTOR 560 116
PUTNEY 1,026 68
RANDOLPH 1,826 255
READING 332 33
READSBORO 255 59
RICHFORD 483 125
RICHMOND 2,069 160
RIPTON 292 12
ROCHESTER 499 46
ROCKINGHAM 1,508 203
ROXBURY 276 30
ROYALTON 954 122
RUPERT 305 40
RUTLAND CITY 4,647 809
RUTLAND TOWN 1,599 313
RYEGATE 384 71
SAINT ALBANS CITY 1,919 270
SAINT ALBANS TOWN 2,416 401
SAINT GEORGE 281 41
SAINT JOHNSBURY 2,181 326
SALISBURY 405 67
SANDGATE 164 25
SEARSBURG 37 6
SHAFTSBURY 1,455 185
SHARON 561 65
SHEFFIELD 216 52
SHELBURNE 3,789 251
SHELDON 535 116
SHOREHAM 482 65
SHREWSBURY 468 80
SOUTH BURLINGTON 8,747 559
SOUTH HERO 925 130
SPRINGFIELD 2,644 452
STAMFORD 282 100
STANNARD 82 9
STARKSBORO 717 106
STOCKBRIDGE 326 38
STOWE 2,262 139
STRAFFORD 599 34
STRATTON 121 11
SUDBURY 250 31
SUNDERLAND 448 53
SUTTON 304 56
SWANTON 1,849 403
THETFORD 1,380 81
TINMOUTH 231 54
TOPSHAM 349 97
TOWNSHEND 485 50
TROY 445 114
TUNBRIDGE 570 84
UNDERHILL 1,658 154
VERGENNES 1,064 103
VERNON 666 160
VERSHIRE 292 36
VICTORY 32 13
WAITSFIELD 899 63
WALDEN 366 76
WALLINGFORD 771 177
WALTHAM 232 23
WARDSBORO 295 48
WARREN 867 53
WASHINGTON 384 81
WATERBURY 2,483 152
WATERFORD 509 92
WATERVILLE 283 41
WEATHERSFIELD 1,158 204
WELLS 425 109
WEST FAIRLEE 240 14
WEST HAVEN 97 13
WEST RUTLAND 683 164
WEST WINDSOR 643 49
WESTFIELD 240 38
WESTFORD 970 108
WESTMINSTER 1,247 110
WESTMORE 133 17
WESTON 314 34
WEYBRIDGE 490 24
WHEELOCK 273 66
WHITING 147 20
WHITINGHAM 424 107
WILLIAMSTOWN 1,027 260
WILLISTON 4,962 422
WILMINGTON 744 93
WINDHAM 203 26
WINDSOR 1,224 155
WINHALL 421 20
WINOOSKI 2,403 154
WOLCOTT 610 76
WOODBURY 388 57
WOODFORD 124 28
WOODSTOCK 1,468 116
WORCESTER 437 52
Categories: Elections
Hardly any Vermonters knew what this amendment was genuinely about thanks to “DISinformation” promulgated by Planned Parenthood, PBS, and a variety of other sources. I’m betting if you asked, most voters were under the impression that they were voting for abortion to remain legal in VT “in spite of” the SCOTUS decision which they also mistakenly believed ended the “right” to abortion nationwide.
Voter ignorance is alive & well in Vermont and fueled now by a “news” media that routinely deals in omission of facts and massive misinformation campaigns.
The free press is dead. The press is controlled by the DNC and the DNC is led by radical activists and Communist/Marxist extremists.
The USA will never recover fully (maybe not even partially) from the tactics it has been subjected to by those who push for globalism and Communism; those who have illegally opened our borders, are installing Marxism, and who FIX elections – even on local levels; I saw it done with my own eyes years ago here in Vermont.
We are likely done.
The parodox: ‘We’ ostensibly voted (I didn’t) to prohibit slavery and indentured servitude while, at the same time, becoming slaves to the ESG shadow state.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-shadow-state-documentary_4877950.html
Sadly, Vermont residents cannot or will not study any documents in front of them and vote with their emotions not their brains. This is how things started in 1930’s Germany.
Although admonished not to so do, I must mention the former candidate for State Office, either treasurer or assistant treasurer, Marina Brown admonished me that a particular man in Newport was “evil” because he worked at a prison. One of the agendas of Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party would appear to be to use violent criminals to keep the rest of us controlled and terrorized.
I dissented. I was admonished for breaking “consensus”. Any questions which I asked were answered with evasion, falsehood, and more admonishment. In official meetings, as I recall, Brown actually made the decisions. This is more than a personal dispute. It seems that Bernie Sanders left that Party not merely to gain advantage as a Democrat, but at the utter extremity of their views and actual intentions and policies. They are analogous to the Brownshirts of the National Socialist Party,. Now it seems that prisoners will be weaponized.
We need to understand just how extreme “respectable” people can be.
People need to wake up now. do yourself a favor and watch the truth.https://rumble.com/v1mk6ux-europa-the-last-battle-2017-full-documentary-hd-the-history-of-the-cabal.html
Mr. French: History is always more complicated than we’re led to believe by those who write it. And that includes this Europa: The Last Battle rendition.
In my experience, historical references become more suspect in proportion to the length of time between an event and its recollection. On the other hand, the time period covered by this so-called documentary series is but the blink of an eye compared to human history overall. This rendition, while enlightening in certain aspects, is little more than listening to two geriatric siblings arguing over their recollection of an argument they had during a Thanksgiving dinner half a century ago.
Are the assessments of human nature accurate? They seem to be. It is difficult to overstate man’s inhumanity to man – in any time period. And it’s folly to think that the man with the gold doesn’t make the rules, be it today, yesterday, or 1000 years ago.
If anything is constant and predictable, it is human behavior. And this account, Europa: The Last Battle, provides no additional enlightenment in that regard. It finger-points, as humans are inclined to do, especially in times of stress, whatever the cause, circumstance, or historical reference. It’s tribal. Because humans remain inherently tribal.
One of my uncles was a WWII Marine, wounded on Iwo Jima. And we used to talk about Robert Stinnett’s book, Day of Deceit, and the possibility that FDR provoked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in order to get the U. S. Congress to declare war. In the greater scheme of things, it was a minor detail. WWII was inevitable.
Yes, a new world order is being brewed by those with the hubris to think their current scheming is more significant than that of those who preceded them. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Salah al-Din, Washington, Napolean and Churchill, FDR, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. The list is long. And, if anything, conflict remains inevitable, despite the utopian promises of our handlers.
Europa: The Last Battle is no different. Yes, no matter who has it, the man with the gold still makes the rules. But the lesson to be learned is that you don’t have to have the gold to play by the rules, whatever they are. And you don’t have to have the gold to play well either.
It’s possible that there’s some slavery in Vermont. For example, I’m willing to bet the “employees” of many an Asian restaurant in VT work all day every day because they lack the legal means to work for anyone else. This amendment wasn’t about them. It didn’t appear to be about any problem at all, and my assumption is that it was an opening gambit for some flavor of prison reform.
I say move ahead. The US is the most prison-happy country on the planet, and it doesn’t appear to actually work. Singapore seems nice. I say we try caning.
It is about loosing criminality in order to break down order and promote revolution. As is disarming the police.
vermont never had slaves and bringing up this subject is wrong in so many ways . there are enough topics to discuss without stirring a pot we never had .