§ 2.3. Manner of election
(a) Representative Town Meeting members: Representative Town Meeting members shall be elected by Australian ballot on the first Tuesday in March of each year. Voters in each district shall elect, for staggered terms, three members for every 180 voters or major fraction thereof. Members shall serve for three years, except that a member elected to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the term. The manner of elections is fully prescribed in 1959 Acts and Resolves No. 302.
(b) Other officers: Other officers shall be elected at large by Australian ballot on the first Tuesday in March.
(c) The Australian ballot system for election of officers shall require the use of printed ballots. Such ballots shall be retained to ensure that a verifiable record of all votes taken is preserved and available in the event of a challenge or recount.
(d) Candidacy for Town officers and Representative Town Meeting members, with the exception of write-in candidates, shall conform with State statute or 1959 Acts and Resolves No. 302. A candidate who intends to be a write-in candidate for a Town office or a Representative Town Meeting member shall notify the Town Clerk prior to the close of the polls on election day. Only votes for declared candidates shall be counted. (Amended 2003, No. M-6, § 2; 2011, No. M-10 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 27, 2012.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters
Chapter 107 - Town of Brattleboro
App § 2.4. Representative Town Meeting
App § 2.6. Board of School Directors
App § 2.7. Board of Library Trustees
App § 2.8. Consolidation of services
App § 2.9. Conflict of interest
App § 2.10. Limits on terms of office
App § 4.1. Composition; eligibility; elections; terms
App § 4.6. General powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Selectboard
App § 5.1. General powers; duties; responsibilities of the Town Manager
App § 6.1. Composition; eligibility; elections; terms
App § 6.6. General powers and responsibilities of the School Directors
App § 7.1. Capital expenditures
App § 7.2. Capital Grant Review Board
App § 7.4. Reappraisal of property
App § 7.5. Lapse of appropriation
App § 7.7. Borrowing in anticipation of taxes
App § 7.8. Office of Assessment
App § 10.1. Representative Town Meeting; authorized
App § 10.2. Districts; report of Selectboard; meetings; voting
App § 10.4. Nomination of candidates; preparation and delivery of ballots; return of unused ballots
App § 10.5. Resignation or disqualification of members; vacancies; how filled
App § 10.6. Voting; members to receive no compensation; quorum; warning
App § 10.7. Articles in warning; action on
App § 10.9. Interpretation of Town acts
App § 11.1. Description of officers, officials, boards, commissions, and committees