Alteration of Checklist: (17 V.S.A. § 2147)
(a) Pursuant to section 2150 of this title, the board shall add to the checklist posted in the
town clerk's office the names of the voters added and the names omitted by mistake, and shall
strike the names of persons not entitled to vote. The list so corrected shall not be altered
except by:
(1) adding the names of persons as directed by any superior or district judge on appeal;
(2) adding the names of persons who are legal voters at the election but whose names are further
discovered to be omitted from the completed checklist solely through inadvertence or error. (Amended
2001, No. 7 § 2.)
(3) adding the names of persons who present a copy of a valid application for addition to the
checklist of that town that was submitted before the deadline for applications and who otherwise
are qualified to be added to the checklist; (Amended 2001, No. 7 § 2.)
(4) adding the names of persons who sign a sworn affidavit that they completed and submitted a
valid application for addition to the checklist of that town before the deadline for applications
and who otherwise are qualified to be added to the checklist; or (Added 2001, No. 7 § 2)
(5) subdividing the checklist as provided in section 2501 of this title, including the transfer
of names of voters who have moved within a town in which they are already registered from one
voting district within that town to another. (Added 2001, No. 7 § 2.)
(b) Any correction or transfer may be accomplished at any time until the closing of the polls on
election day. Each voter has primary responsibility to ascertain that his or her name is properly
added to and retained on the checklist. (Added 2001, No. 7 § 2.)
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