EAdIElection Administration Index
How professionally and independently is election administration codified?
Dimensions
Accountability
0.0% · 0/2| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| COI.1Conflict-of-interest disclosureAre commissioners and senior election staff required by statute to disclose financial interests (vendor relationships, party positions, candidate connections) publicly? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-21 |
| COI.2Judicial review of administrative decisionsIs the right to seek judicial review of election-authority decisions codified, with standing, timeline, and venue defined? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-21 |
Commission
30.0% · 2/5| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMM.1Statutory grounding of commissionIs the election commission's existence and core mandate set in the constitution (rather than statute alone, regulation, or executive order)? | 0/20.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Vermont has no election commission. Elections are administered by the Secretary of State — a constitutional officer — and by each town's board of civil authority, a statutory body. § 2154 charges the Secretary with the statewide voter checklist, but no commission is established, and the constitutional-grounding criterion for a commission is not applicable. | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| COMM.2Multi-branch appointmentAre commission members appointed by multiple branches (legislature, judiciary, executive) such that no single branch unilaterally controls composition? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: § 2103 is the definitions section. With no election commission, there is no multi-branch commission-appointment provision to codify. | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| COMM.3Term protectionAre commissioner terms defined in statute with fixed length, staggered cycles, and statutory grounds for removal? | 0.5/150.0% | § 2646 codifies fixed terms for town officers, including the town clerk — the principal local election official — whose term is one year (or three years by town vote), serving until a successor is chosen. Fixed statutory terms are codified, but staggering and cause-only removal protection for election-administration roles are not comprehensively codified. | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| COMM.4Political-balance requirementIs the commission's composition required by statute to be politically balanced (party-balanced, supermajority-confirmation, or independent appointment by judiciary)? | 1/1100.0% | § 2143 codifies a political-balance requirement for the board of civil authority — the town election body: if it does not contain 'at least three members of each major political party,' an underrepresented party may compel additional appointments. § 2454 requires assistant election officers to be appointed, as far as possible, equally from each major party, and § 2455 codifies political-party representation among election officials. “at least three members of each major political party” | § view source 2026-05-21 |
Funding
0.0% · 0/4| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUND.1Independent funding lineIs the election authority's budget a separate statutory line item (not subject to mid-cycle reallocation by the executive branch alone)? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The surfaced candidates concern political-committee registration and the Vermont campaign-finance public-grant fund (§ 2985), not the election authority's operating budget. No separate statutory funding line for election administration, insulated from executive reallocation, is codified. | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| FUND.2Multi-year funding cycleAre election infrastructure budgets set on a multi-year cycle (avoiding annual political renegotiation of election-administration money)? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-21 |
| FUND.3Foreign funding prohibitionIs foreign-source funding of the election authority (and election administration vendors, where applicable) prohibited by statute? | 0/20.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-21 |
Staff Training
0.0% · 0/3| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| STAFF.1Career professional staffIs the election authority's career staff (professional employees, not political appointees) protected by civil-service or analogous merit-based statute? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-21 |
| STAFF.2Mandatory trainingIs training for election officials and poll workers required by statute, with content and frequency defined? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The FTS query surfaced only definitions sections. While the Secretary of State provides guidance and training materials for town election officials, no statutory mandatory-training requirement with defined content and frequency was surfaced for this datapoint. | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| STAFF.3Whistleblower protectionAre election-related whistleblower protections (for staff reporting irregularities) codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-21 |
Vendor Oversight
33.3% · 1/3| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERT.1Certification process codifiedIs the voting-equipment certification process (criteria, evaluators, timeline, public-comment period) codified in statute or regulation? | 1/1100.0% | § 2493 codifies voting-equipment certification: the Secretary of State adopts rules governing the use and selection of vote tabulators, and 'all municipalities that have voted to use a vote tabulator shall use a uniform vote tabulator approved by the Secretary of State.' Approval by the Secretary of State is the codified certification gate. “All municipalities that have voted to use a vote tabulator shall use a uniform vote tabulator approved by the Secretary of State.” | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| CERT.2Recertification triggersAre recertification triggers (after material updates, after defects discovered, on a fixed schedule) codified? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: § 2145b concerns voter-registration agencies. No recertification-trigger provision for voting equipment is codified. | § view source 2026-05-21 |
| CERT.3Decertification grounds & procedureAre the grounds for revoking certification, and the procedure for doing so, defined in statute? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: § 2452 concerns the presiding officer. No grounds or procedure for revoking a voting system's certification are codified. | § view source 2026-05-21 |