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Revamp Your Open Town Meeting

Open town meetings are in full swing this time of year. For many, traditional voting methods can be problematic and painfully time-consuming. With..

Traditional voting procedures during an open town meeting can be problematic and painfully time-consuming. With advances in technology, many towns..

Westborough Switches to E-Voting Last week, the Town of Westborough, Massachusetts, made the decision to permanently authorize the use of..

What is the Brown Act? The Brown Act, also referred to as California’s Open Meeting Law, requires any meeting held by a legislative body to be open..

Open vs. Representative Town Meetings A representative town meeting is a municipal legislature where members are elected by the townspeople to..

Privacy in Open Town Meetings Traditional open town meeting voting can be problematic and painfully time-consuming. With advances in voting..

For the second consecutive year, the Town of Framingham, Massachusetts has stepped into the future of voting processes for representative town..

Citizens in Massachusetts have used public Town Meetings to govern their affairs for more than 350 years. While the practice keeps residents..

Residents in the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts have cut the time it takes to do their town meeting voting process by one third. Using..

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