2014 Vermont Statutes
Title 17 - Elections
Chapter 51 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
Subchapter 9: RECOUNTS AND CONTEST OF ELECTIONS
§ 2602b Assignment of duties
§ 2602b. Assignment of duties
(a) The county clerk shall supervise the recount and may appoint a sufficient number of impartial assistants to perform appropriate tasks which have not been assigned to recount committee members. The county clerk shall recruit town clerks to serve as impartial assistants to the county clerk for operating the vote tabulators. The county clerk shall store all ballots, still in their sealed containers, in his or her vault until the day of the recount.
(b) The county clerk shall assign committee members to teams of at least four persons, consisting of one caller and one observer, representing different candidates, and one tally person and one double-check person, representing different candidates. Any additional team members shall be additional observers and double-check persons, who shall be assigned to ensure that each candidate has one person assigned as either a caller or an observer and one person assigned as either a tally person or a double-check person. One team shall be designated as the clerk observer team, which shall perform only the functions established under this section for that team.
(c) The recount committee shall use fresh seals, manila tags, tally sheets, double-check sheets, summary sheets for each polling place, master lists for the entire election to be recounted, and other appropriate material provided by the Secretary of State. (Added 1985, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; amended 2013, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 42.)
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