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Vermont enacted a sweeping vote-by-mail expansion with significant Republican support, bucking the national trend of GOP lawmakers rolling back voting access.
MONTPELIER — A bill allowing municipalities to conduct Town Meeting voting by mail or move the date, in order to allow residents to participate safely in local government during the
The rift has been evident for decades. Former Republican governor Jim Douglas traces the split all the way back to the fight between the conservative Proctor wing of the party and the moderate Gibson-Aiken faction, in the days when Vermont Democrats were so scarce that GOP politics were just about the only politics around. In the 1946 primary, moderate Ernest W. Gibson Jr. beat incumbent Republican governor Mortimer Proctor in a hard-fought race — then went on to beat the Democrat with 80 percent of the vote. Vermont Republicans have had a successful history, especially since the r...
Updated at 3:55 p.m. Some Republican legislators in Vermont are calling for the resignation of the Trump-loving leaders of the state's GOP if they can’t...