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POWNAL â Addressing errors on hundreds of mailed annual town reports has led to cancellation of the Pownal March 2 election, which will have to be rewarned.
Meeting in emergency session Tuesday night, the board heard that approximately 1,100 mailed reports were returned by the post office and had to be remailed with corrected address labels attached.
The legal problem, said board liaison Rebecca Dragon, is that the state requires reports to be delivered to voters 10 days prior to an election. An unusually large number of returned reports was first noticed on Thursday, and the scope of the problem understood by Friday, officials said. But that did not allow enough time to get them to voters with corrected addresses.