The Starksboro Selectboard will convene a Special Town Meeting on Tuesday May 10, 2022, at 7pm in the multipurpose room at Robinson School. The Special Town Meeting is in response to receipt of a voter-backed petition requesting a vote. The petitioned articles will be voted on from the floor of the meeting and not by Australian ballot, so you must be in attendance to vote.

The Selectboard would like to take this opportunity to explain that the reason why we will vote the petitioned articles from the floor, is because floor voting is the method our town uses to vote on public questions at special or annual town meetings. This method of voting cannot be changed by the Selectboard, there must be a town-wide vote to switch to Australian ballot at an annual or special meeting. We have heard from a few townspeople asking why we voted by Australian ballot the last two years? The quick answer is that during the COVID-19 pandemic the legislature passed Act 162 in 2021 and Act 77 in 2022 that allowed for changing the method of voting, to discourage assembling large groups for the annual town meeting only. The Selectboard has worked with our legal counsel and the Secretary of State's Election Division to make sure that this is the appropriate voting method. Please reach out to me at kcousino@starksborovt.org with any additional questions.

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