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Official Voting Results - Budgets

Posted Tuesday, March 5, 2024
— Village News

Official Return of Voting Results

OFFICIAL RETURN OF VOTES

ANNUAL SWANTON VILLAGE MEETING BUDGET VOTE

MARCH 5, 2024

BALLOT ACCOUNTABILITY

Number of Voters on Checklist                                                                                   1624

Number of Ballots Counted (including absentees)                                             579                                        

Number of Absentee Ballots Counted                                                                     139                                                        

I, Dianne Day, Swanton Village Clerk, hereby certify that the results of the BUDGET VOTE by AUSTRALIAN BALLOT at the ANNUAL SWANTON VILLAGE MEETING held in the Swanton Village Complex in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont on the 5th day of March A.D. 2024 were as follows:

ARTICLE II, General Fund, $173,825                                                                          

Yes Votes                                            387                                                                                                        

No Votes                                             188                                                                                                        

Undervote                                          4                                                                             

TOTAL BALLOTS COUNTED           579

                                                                               

ARTICLE III, Highway Fund, $691,290                                                                        

Yes Votes                                            406                                                                                                                        

No Votes                                             170                                                                        

Undervote                                          3                                                                             

TOTAL BALLOTS COUNTED           579

                                                                               

ARTICLE IV, Fire Department, $88,480                                                                    

Yes Votes                                            425                                                                                                        

No Votes                                             146

Overvote                                             1                                                                                             

Undervote                                          7                                                             

TOTAL BALLOTS COUNTED           579

                                                                               

ARTICLE V, Police Department, $998,967                                                               

Yes Votes                                            306                                                                                        

No Votes                                             266

Overvote                                             1                                                                             

Undervote                                          6                                                                             

TOTAL BALLOTS COUNTED           579

                                                                               

ARTICLE VI, Public Safety Facility, $14,833,613

Yes Votes                                            130                                                                                        

No Votes                                             444                                                        

Spoiled/Overvote                            1                                                             

Undervote                                          4                                                                             

TOTAL BALLOTS COUNTED           579

                                                                               

                                                                                               

Attest: _________________________ Dianne Day

Swanton Village Clerk