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HALIFAX â To avoid confusion and complaints, ballots wonât be sent to every registered voter in Halifax for Town Meeting Day on March 2.
Town Clerk Patricia Dow called the stateâs decision to mail ballots to every voter for the November election a âgreat ideaâ but reported hearing a lot of backlash from voters.
âThere were a lot of complaints I heard along the way,â she said at the Select Board meeting held remotely Monday, describing how some voters thought the ballot wouldnât be the same one offered at the polls on election day and some threw theirs away upon receiving it. âIt was confusing to some that they had to return their unvoted ballot if they wanted to vote at the polls in person.â
HALIFAX A group of 41 residents dropped a lawsuit against the town related to the Select Board’s handling of a resignation of a board member, with their attorney citing