ERRATA / CORRECTION – re: Youth Vote Article

March 1, 2022

Dear Editors,

There was a report last week (Feb 28) which contained errors of fact about the Youth Vote amendment

• The legislation does not allow young people on the selectboard. It allows them on Brattleboro’s Representative Town Meeting (lower town council).
• The youth coordinator was Rio Daims, assisted by Maya McNeill and Maya King. Ms. Charkey was not involved.
• There were two elections, one in 2015 and one in 2019.

To our chagrin other newspapers are copying the erroneous report.

In 2020 the governor supported a version allowing youth to serve on school boards. We are preparing a state-wide campaign for this legislation. I hope, if you decide to cover this story again, you will do your own fact-checking.

(Kurt)