Richard Scheiber News Today

Unless a voter is present when the moderator calls each warning Item, those voters who are not physically present lose their right to vote.

Here is a technique that I have been using for the last ten or so years in Cabot to check whether or not my ballot is counted in the primary and general elections. I vote by absentee ballot exclusively in these statewide elections. I write the name of someone who also is a Cabot voter who I know would not run for an elected public office and then I vote that write-in name as my choice for some minor elected office on that ballot.  After that election, I check with the town website or with the t...