While the weather might be nicer now than March, turnout for local town meeting elections Tuesday was sparse across Mount Washington Valley. Voting normally takes place in non-SB 2 towns on the second Tuesday in March, but selectmen across the Granite State took advantage of Gov. Chris Sununu’s Emergency Order No. 83, which allowed towns to push back town voting and town meetings to as late as July.
“This is just not the town meeting time of the year for most people,” said Michael Brooks, who was re-elected to another three-year term as the town clerk/tax collector in Madison, receiving 166 votes. “I think it wasn’t on people’s radars.”
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