voting
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Letter to the editor: Please register and turn out to vote this November
By any measure U.S. citizens do not show up to vote in respectable or democratic numbers. Internationally we are listed in the bottom third of developed countries when it comes…
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Protesters condemn Postal Service cuts
ADDISON COUNTY AND BRANDON — Anger over the precipitous decline in the quality of mail delivery from the U.S. Postal Service showed itself this past Saturday when protests…
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Ways of Seeing: Rethinking American political progress
On Aug. 18, Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Susan B. Anthony. who voted illegally in 1872, well before the 19th amendment granted some women that right in 1920. I…
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Letter to the editor: ‘Vote Forward’ encourages turnout at elections
We believe in the importance of doing something in this critical electoral season to get out the vote. Our fragile democracy depends on voter participation, especially of formerly…
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Residents adjust to new voting protocols
ADDISON COUNTY — A record number of Vermonters voted in Tuesday’s primary, and the majority of them voted early by absentee ballot. As of Wednesday afternoon, with all…
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Editorial: Vote next Tuesday — primaries matter, especially this year
It’s normal to have several candidates vying for the two top offices in the state during every primary. But typically the two major party candidates are well known…
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Opinion: The importance of voting is not lost
This week’s writer is Ruth Hardy, a state senator representing Addison County, Huntington and Buels Gore. She lives in East Middlebury with her husband and three children. As…
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Eric Davis: Make sure your early votes count
With 12 days still to go until Vermont’s Aug. 11 primary election, more voters have requested absentee ballots for the primary than voted both in person and by…
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Letter to the editor: Students advocate for mail-in voting system
Twelve local students, including four from area high schools and eight from Middlebury College, where among the 96 signatories of a recent letter to Gov. Phil Scott, Secretary…
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Letter to the editor: Voting by mail needed this fall
Thank you, Angelo, for your recent editorial regarding the need to vote by mail in the November general election. In this time of a global pandemic, when public…
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Editorial: Expand voting by mail
In light of COVID-19, social distancing and the upcoming primaries in August, and the General Election in November, Vermont’s Sec. of State James Condos has been mulling the…
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The electoral college and other quirks of U.S. voting
BRISTOL — To get a sense of why the Electoral College is criticized so heavily these days, one need only consider that Republican Donald Trump was elected president…