The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
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PROCESS OF VOTING
(Cite as: 17 V.S.A. § 2564)
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§ 2564. Challenges
(a)(1)(A) Each organized political party, each candidate on the ballot not representing an organized
political party, and each committee supporting or opposing any public question on
the ballot shall have the right to have not more than two representatives for each
voting district, in a polling place but outside the guardrail, for the purpose of
observing the voting process and challenging the right of any person to vote.
(B) In no event shall such representatives be permitted to interfere with the orderly
conduct of the election, and the presiding officer shall have authority to impose
reasonable rules for the preservation of order.
(C) However, in all cases the representatives shall have the right to hear or see the
name of a person seeking to vote, and they shall have the right to make an immediate
challenge to a person’s right to vote.
(2) The grounds of challenge of a person whose name appears on the checklist shall be
only:
(A) that he or she is not, in fact, the person whose name appears on the checklist; or
(B) that he or she has previously voted in the same election.
(b) If a challenge is issued, the members of the board of civil authority present in the
polling place shall immediately convene, informally hear the facts, and decide whether
the challenge should be sustained.
(1) If the board overrules the challenge, the person shall immediately be admitted within
the guardrail and permitted to vote.
(2) If the board sustains the challenge, the person shall not be admitted unless, before
the polls close, he or she shall obtain a court order directing that he or she be
permitted to vote. (Added 1977, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2017, No. 50, § 38.)