Wayland residents discuss high-tech voting to streamline Town Meeting

Boston Globe 2/14/10: Wayland residents discuss high-tech voting to streamline Town Meeting.  After witnessing the chaos of November’s Town Meeting votes on the new Wayland High School and Town Center projects, 16-year-old Monique Sager decided it was time to bring a venerable old New England tradition into the 21st century.   So Sager, a Wayland High School senior, started the group Improve Wayland Democracy, and researched ways to streamline Town Meeting votes and ensure greater ballot secrecy, so citizens would be more likely to participate and unafraid to vote their conscience.

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