It would also allow youths to serve on the town selectboard and as town meeting members in Brattleboro's representative form of the Vermont tradition. Supporters argued that the change would help engage more young people in local issues and give them more of a say in the future of their community. On Town Meeting Day in 2019, Brattleboro voters overwhelmingly approved changing the town charter to lower the voting age, with 68 percent approving the idea. "The fundamentals of voting should be universal and implemented statewide.” “I do not support creating a patchwork of core election laws and policies that are different from town to town,” Scott wrote in his latest veto message.
(The legislature later overrode the vetoes.) Last year, he also vetoed charter changes in Winooski and Montpelier that would have given noncitizens the right to vote, citing similar concerns. Scott said he worried the measure, H.361, would only exacerbate a pattern of inconsistent voting laws in the state. Phil Scott on Monday vetoed a bill that would have allowed 16- and 17-year-olds in Brattleboro to vote in local elections and run for local office. The bill also blocks people who are not law enforcement officers from carrying guns in hospitals, and includes some other measures that gun safety advocates had sought. The House and Senate approved that this week. But he told lawmakers he would favor extending the period to seven days. Scott had earlier vetoed a bill that would have blocked firearms purchases altogether unless the background check was complete. The new measure extends that period to seven business days. Vermont had allowed sales to proceed when background checks weren’t completed within three days. 45-caliber pistol that he used to murder nine Black members of a Bible study group at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015. That's what enabled a 21-year-old white supremacist to buy the. Phil Baruth (D/P-Chittenden) initially sought to eliminate the loophole, which has allowed people to buy guns when their background check wasn’t completed in time. Phil Scott on Friday signed S.4, a bill that doesn't quite close the so-called "Charleston loophole" in mandated background checks of gun buyers, but narrows it.
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