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Article 10: To enable citizens to vote on warrant articles without physically attending Town Meeting.

To see if the Town will vote to advise the Select Board to work with the Town Manager and with representatives in the state legislature (currently Jim Arciero, Representative and John Cronin, Senator) to introduce a bill to the legislature for the 2025-2026 session seeking authorization for the Town of Westford to revise the format of Town Meetings (both Annual and Special) to enable registered voters to vote on warrant articles without physically attending Town Meeting.


Two proposed methods of achieving this end would be (A) a ballot vote on warrant articles subsequent to Town Meeting using current ballot voting procedures, or (B) a hybrid Town Meeting, with people able to participate and vote on warrant articles either in-person or remotely (e.g. online).
There may be other more satisfactory methods of achieving the same end, that is to enable registered voters to vote on warrant articles without physically attending Town Meeting.


In this way, participation in decisions regarding the Town would be made available to those registered voters who, for one reason or another, are not able to physically attend Town Meeting, and are currently excluded from town decision-making.
 

The Town further advises that updates regarding the status and progress of this initiative, and the resulting bill in the State Legislature should be included in the Town Manager’s monthly update.

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Or act in relation thereto.

The purpose of this site is to build a community of people in Westford who support the idea of enabling citizens to vote on warrant articles without having to attend town meeting.

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For more information, contact:

Bill Taffel

btaffel@gmail.com

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