2009 Vermont Code
Title 17 - Elections
Chapter 51 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS (Contains: §§ 2451 – 2617)
§ 2602e -   Sorting of ballots

§ 2602e. Sorting of ballots

(a) Ballots from the first container shall be counted by one team and placed into piles containing 50 ballots each, except where there is a final pile which contains less than 50, in which case, the counting team shall affix to the top of the pile a note indicating how many ballots are contained in the pile. All of these ballots then shall be transferred to another team which shall verify that they are in piles of 50 ballots each and that any remaining pile contains the designated number of ballots.

(b) The teams, except the clerk observer team and possibly the team which is processing the checklists, shall proceed to their tables and each team shall get from the clerk one pile of ballots, one tally sheet and one double-check sheet per 50 ballots, unless there are more persons per team who serve as double-check persons, in which case, each such person shall be assigned a double-check sheet. If a team spoils a tally sheet or needs to retally, it must turn in the tally sheet in order to get another one. (Added 1985, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)