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MetroWest towns still secure with electronic voting

Wayland Town Crier 4/17/15: MetroWest towns still secure with electronic voting. While allegations of impropriety involving Wayland’s Town Meeting’s electronic voting system this week might…

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Wayland reups electronic voting through 2019

Wayland Town Crier 4/16/15: Wayland reups electronic voting through 2019. Voters at Monday night’s session of annual Town Meeting got to participate in a rare…

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Voter fraud alleged at Wayland Town Meeting

Wayland Town Crier 4/16/15: Voter fraud alleged at Wayland Town Meeting. Moderator Dennis Berry says it was too late to deal with an allegation of…

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Four Things You Missed at the ELVIS 2.0 Meeting

Wayland Patch 1/17/12: Four Things You Missed at the ELVIS 2.0 Meeting. Wayland’s Electronic Voting Implementation Subcommittee 2.0 continues to work toward bringing electronic voting to Wayland’s town meetings on a permanent basis. Last week, the group met to discuss steps to take leading up to and at the upcoming April Town Meeting to ensure electronic voting will be offered going forward rather than on a town-meeting-by-town-meeting basis. Electronic voting at the coming Annual Town Meeting will be funded by a $30,000 appropriation from the Finance Committee’s discretionary funds.

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Town Meeting voters stand by electronic voting

Wayland Town Crier 11/23/11:  Town Meeting voters stand by electronic voting. Voters at special Town Meeting last week agreed with proponents of electronic voting that the benefits of almost instant tabulation of votes beats the voice and standing counts used for the past 300 years. Privacy, speed and accuracy, said Alan Reiss and Dave Bernstein, lead petitioners of Article 1, are the key benefits of using electronic handsets to bring town meeting democracy into the 21st century.

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Wayland Finance Committee discusses Town Meeting articles

Wayland Town Crier 10/20/11: Wayland Finance Committee discusses Town Meeting articles. The Wayland Finance Committee met this week with the four lead petitioners of two articles at the upcoming special Town Meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17, aimed at using excess free cash to reduce tax rates. The FinCom wanted to hear the arguments behind the two articles before drawing up their comments and recommendations for the Town Meeting Warrant, which goes to press next Tuesday.

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Finance Committee Transfers Funds for Spring E-Voting

Wayland Patch 10/19/11: Finance Committee Transfers Funds for Spring E-Voting. Wayland’s Special Town Meeting scheduled for Nov. 17 threw a wrench into plans to fund electronic voting for the annual town meeting in spring 2012. But the Finance Committee took steps at its Monday night meeting to, the members hope, remove that wrench. Since the trial run with electronic voting was so popular at the April 2011 Town Meeting, members of the Electronic Voting Implementation Subcommittee (now re-tasked and re-named to the Electronic Voting 2.0 Subcommittee) had worked with the Board of Selectmen to secure funding for electronic voting at the spring 2012 meeting, during which the subcommittee planned to submit an article seeking more permanent funding for the project. Finance Committee Chair Cherry Karlson explained that there was no intention to hold a 2011 fall town meeting until a couple of weeks ago, so selectmen believed they would have money left over in the town meeting fund – money available for a fall meeting, if needed – to fund electronic voting at a spring 2012 town meeting.

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