2005 Vermont Code - § 2471. — General election ballot

§ 2471. General election ballot

(a) A consolidated ballot shall be used at a general election, which shall list the several candidates for the offices to be voted upon. The offices of president and vice-president of the United States, United States senator, United States representative, governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer, secretary of state, auditor of accounts, attorney general, state senator, representative to the general assembly, judge of probate, assistant judge, state's attorney, sheriff, and high bailiff shall be listed in that order. Any statewide public question shall also be listed on the ballot, before the listing of all offices to be filled. The ballot shall be prepared at state expense under the direction of the secretary of state. The color of the ballot shall be yellow; however, in the case of a town that uses vote tabulators designed to tabulate ballots from multiple districts by means of a single tabulator, the color of the ballots shall be determined by the secretary of state in consultation with the town clerk. The printing shall be black.

(b) Ballots for justices shall be prepared at town expense, under the direction of the town clerk, in the town in which they are to be used. Such ballots may be any color except yellow, and the printing shall be black; in other respects, such ballots shall conform as nearly as may be to the form of the consolidated ballot. The columns may be less than four inches wide, and the lines dividing the columns may be less than one-quarter inch wide, if the town clerk determines that this will not make the ballots more difficult for the voter to read. (Added 1977, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1979, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 42; amended 1985, No. 196 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1993, No. 138 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)