EAIElectoral Access Index

§ 2143 codifies political-balance representation on the board of civil authority — the town body that administers elections: if the board lacks at least three members of each major political party, an underrepresented party may compel additional appointments. § 2454 requires assistant election officers to be drawn, as far as possible, equally from each major party. Party-balanced election administration codified.

§ 2101 grounds Title 17 in the constitution: 'this title is intended to carry out the mandate contained in Article 8 of Chapter I of the Constitution of the State of Vermont,' which sets the voter-qualification mandate. § 2121 codifies the eligibility criteria — U.S. citizen, Vermont resident, having taken the voter's oath, and 18 years of age. Voter qualifications are grounded in the state constitution.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Vermont codifies no voter-disqualification framework: § 2121 conditions eligibility only on citizenship, residency, the voter's oath, and age. Vermont — with Maine — never disenfranchises a citizen; there is no felony disenfranchisement (Vermonters vote while incarcerated) and no mental-incompetence exclusion. The surfaced § 2456 concerns disqualification of election officials who are candidates, not voters. The 0 reflects the deliberate absence of disqualification, a pro-access posture.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The surfaced candidates concern the early-voter list and campaign-finance definitions. Vermont does not require voter ID for established voters — § 2563 admits a voter who announces their name and appears on the checklist — but no explicit statutory voter-ID provision was surfaced for this datapoint.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: § 2563 admits a voter who announces their name and is found on the checklist. Vermont does not require voter ID for established voters and therefore does not enumerate acceptable ID forms (first-time registrants are subject only to the federal HAVA identification baseline).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: § 2358 concerns examination of nominating petitions. Vermont has no voter-ID requirement, so no free-ID provision is codified.

§ 2556 codifies the at-polls cure: where a voter's name does not appear on the checklist, or the voter disputes a rejected registration, 'the election official shall allow the individual to vote provisionally.' § 2557 codifies the town clerk's adjudication of the provisional voter's attestation and § 2555 the provisional-ballot envelope. § 2546 codifies an opportunity to cure a defective returned ballot.

§ 2546 codifies an opportunity to cure: on receiving a defective returned ballot the town clerk directs two election officials to process it, and the voter is given a chance to correct curable defects. § 2556 lets a voter who disputes a rejected registration cast a provisional ballot. A cure/dispute route is codified, though not a dedicated ID-rejection appeal.

Vermont has same-day voter registration — a voter may register through and including election day (§ 2144a, § 2145) — so there is no pre-election registration cutoff; the effective 'deadline' is election day itself. § 2531 codifies the separate early-voter-absentee-ballot application deadline. The same-day-registration provision was not directly surfaced for this datapoint.

§ 2144a enumerates the registration methods: 'a person who desires to register to vote may apply in any of the following ways' — simultaneously with a DMV driver's-license or non-driver-ID application (§ 2145a), at a voter-registration agency, by mail or in-person delivery of an application to the town clerk, and online. Registration methods exhaustively enumerated.

“A person who desires to register to vote may apply in any of the following ways”

§ 2147 codifies correction of the checklist — the board of civil authority or town clerk adds the names of voters omitted by mistake and strikes those not entitled to vote, including additions directed by a Superior judge on appeal. § 2556 lets a voter whose registration was rejected vote provisionally. A correction/cure route is codified, though not a dedicated incomplete-application cure-and-resubmit procedure.

§ 2147 codifies the voter's challenge route: the checklist is corrected to add names 'as directed by any Superior judge on appeal,' providing judicial review of a registration decision. § 2556 lets a voter who disputes a rejected registration cast a provisional ballot, and § 2146 codifies the board's eligibility determination. The right to challenge a rejected or removed registration is codified.

§ 2150 codifies the criteria and procedure for removing names from the checklist — change of residence (with notice to the former municipality), the confirmation-notice process, and other statutory grounds — and § 2152 codifies the division of the checklist into active and inactive sections, the inactive section holding only voters who failed to respond to the § 2150 notice. Statutory roll-maintenance criteria codified.

§ 2150 codifies a notice-and-cure framework before removal: a voter is sent a confirmation notice, and § 2152 places a voter who fails to respond into the inactive section of the checklist rather than removing them outright — the NVRA notice-and-waiting-period model. Notice and an opportunity to remain registered are codified.

§ 2154 codifies access controls on the statewide voter checklist: the Secretary of State must limit each town clerk to editing only that municipality's portion of the checklist and must limit access to the checklist. Access security is codified, but no encryption mandate or data-breach-notification regime is codified.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 2569 codifies assistance: a voter who declares a need for help to mark the ballot 'shall be assisted in the marking or registering of the ballot by a person of the voter's choice or two election officials of different party affiliations,' and the assister may not divulge the voter's choices. The assistance right and the rules on who may assist are codified.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 2561 codifies statutory polling hours: at all Australian-ballot elections the polls 'may open no earlier than 5:00 a.m. and shall open no later than 10:00 a.m. as set by the board of civil authority,' and 'the polls in all polling places shall close at 7:00 p.m.,' with voters in line at closing entitled to vote. Polling hours are fixed by statute.

“The polls in all polling places shall close at 7:00 p.m.”

Vermont codifies a comprehensive mail-voting procedure in Chapter 51, Subchapter 6: application (§ 2531-2532), delivery by mail (§ 2539), return (§ 2543), receipt and processing by the town clerk (§ 2546), and treatment of defective ballots (§ 2547). For general elections Vermont mails an early-voter absentee ballot to every active registered voter.

§ 2531 codifies the early-voter / absentee-ballot framework: any voter who expects to be an early or absentee voter may apply for an early-voter absentee ballot up to the day before the election. § 2532 codifies authorized applicants and the application form, and § 2538 codifies delivery by justices of the peace to voters who are ill, injured, or disabled. Comprehensive absentee framework codified.

§ 2546b codifies in-person early voting: a board of civil authority may vote to permit registered voters to vote early in the town clerk's office 'in the same manner as those voting on election day' by marking an early-voter absentee ballot and depositing it into a vote tabulator or secure ballot box. The early-voter-absentee-ballot period runs from 45 days before election day.

§ 2543a codifies secure ballot drop boxes: 'a board of civil authority may vote to install one or more secure outdoor ballot drop boxes (drop boxes) for the return of voted ballots,' located on municipal property (at the clerk's office if a town has only one), available for ballot return at any time of day. Drop-box placement, security, and timing codified.

“A board of civil authority may vote to install one or more secure outdoor ballot drop boxes (drop boxes) for the return of voted ballots.”

§ 2556 codifies the provisional-ballot right: where a voter's name is not on the checklist or a registration was rejected, the election official 'shall allow the individual to vote provisionally.' § 2557 codifies the town clerk's adjudication of the provisional voter's attestation against the eligibility requirements, and § 2555 codifies the provisional-ballot envelope and attestation. Provisional voting fully codified.