Vermont § 2546b - Early voting in town clerk’s office; deposit into vote tabulator

§ 2546b. Early voting in town clerk’s office; deposit into vote tabulator

• (a)(1) A board of civil authority may vote to permit its town’s registered early or absentee
  voters to vote in the town clerk’s office in the same manner as those voting on election
  day by marking their early voter absentee ballots and depositing them into a vote
  tabulator or secure ballot box. (2) If a board of civil authority votes to permit early voting as described in subdivision
  (1) of this subsection, the town’s process for conducting this early voting shall
  conform to the provisions of this section and to procedures that the Secretary of
  State shall adopt for this purpose. (b)(1) During business hours in the town clerk’s office, the secure ballot box or vote tabulator
  and ballot bin shall be in a secured area accessible only to election officials and
  voters. The vote tabulator unit shall be secured with an identifiable seal and the
  ballot box containing voted ballots shall remain locked at all times and secured with
  an identifiable seal. Neither seal shall be broken prior to the time of closing the
  polls on election day. (2) Once early voting has commenced in the town clerk’s office, the town clerk or designee
  shall certify each day in a record prepared for this purpose that the seals on the
  vote tabulator and secure ballot box are intact. (3) When an election official is not present or at times other than business hours, the
  secure ballot box or sealed vote tabulator and ballot bin shall be secured in the
  town clerk’s office vault. (4) The town clerk shall maintain a record of each early or absentee voter who voted in
  person in accordance with this section and shall mark these voters as having voted
  early in the clerk’s office in the online election management system.