YVT RTM and School Board

March 13, 2022

BCS started the Youth Vote campaign in 2014. The first “event” we organized was an essay contest at the high school. After that it took a year of asking and reminding school officials before we presented to the students. We’ve been through legal wrangling with town officials and conflicts with other state law, two local elections and multiple State legislative votes vetoes and we’re still going. We need contacts at the high school, so they can help, and so that we can p o s s i b l y get them elected by caucus onto Brattleboro’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM) by next Saturday. Don’t you know someone?

And people may not recall that the version of the Youth Vote that was approved in 2019 allowed 16-and-17-y-o to serve as school directors. We will restart that and advocate for YVT STATEWIDE.

Won’t it be great if we can override the veto and get even one youth voter elected to RTM?!

I could come to the school and register students to vote. I mentioned the override by the VT House to the town clerk yesterday, and she told me someone had asked for someone to register young voters at the school. I could make a presentation and register voters.

Kurt