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MONTPELIER — When Will Senning started as director of elections in the Secretary of State’s office, he was not thinking about elections the way he does today.

“It is irresponsible. It is reckless and it is reprehensible to put retirees in fear that they will lose their health care and be forced into risky, controversial Medicare Advantage plans,” said former Secretary of State Jim Condos, just four weeks into his retirement.

The governor signed the documents before a cheering crowd of supporters in the packed House chamber in Montpelier.

Republican Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday signed the document inscribing the Reproductive Liberty Amendment into the Vermont Constitution, formally changing the state’s founding document to protect reproductive rights including abortion.Scott also signed...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Republican Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday signed the document inscribing the Reproductive Liberty Amendment into the Vermont Constitution, formally changing the state’s founding document to protect reproductive rights including abortion.

MONTPELIER — Republican Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday signed the document inscribing the Reproductive Liberty Amendment into the Vermont Constitution, formally changing the states founding document to protect reproductive rights

Battered by economic turmoil, record-breaking unpopularity and internal divisions, the Conservatives appear to be heading towards electoral calamity.

Vermont elected Democrat Peter Welch to the Senate with 66.8% of the vote and Democrat Becca Balint to the House of Representatives with 60.1% of the vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. Vermont also re-elected Republican Governor Phil Scott, defeating Democrat Brenda Siegel, with approximately 68.9% of the vote, as reported by the Vermont Secretary of State. 

Voters in four states voiced support for abortion by approving radical initiatives or rejecting a proposed pro-life amendment. ...

More than a third of Vermont’s active voters had already returned their ballots going into the weekend ahead of Election Day, according to Secretary of State...