Weathersfield Weekly Blog November 7 edition
VOTE, Tuesday Nov. 8 News You Can Use ICYMI (In case You Missed It) Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. Here’s what you need to know Mike Dougherty reporting for VT Digger It’s a big one. By Tuesday night, Vermonters will have decided on their next members of Congress, state executives and legislators, as well as two proposed amendments to the state constitution. The results could include two historic milestones. Vermont, which is the last state to send a woman to Congress, could do so on Tuesday if voters elect Becca Balint, the Democratic nominee for Vermont’s open U.S. House seat — or her Libertarian opponent Ericka Redic. Voters could also make Vermont the first state in the nation to elect to enshrine reproductive rights in its constitution. Approval of either of this year’s ballot measures would mark the first amendment to the Vermont Constitution since 2010. Roughly a third of the state’s electorate may have already voted. As of Friday, 150,202 mail-in ballots had already been...
