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Greenwich Time League of Women Voters of Greenwich Educational Fund P. O. Box 604 • Greenwich, CT 06836-0604 VOTER’S2017 NEW! RTM Voter’s Guide More information on RTM candidates! Online only at GUIDE www.lwvg.org INSIDE: ✔✔Election Day Information VOTE TUESDAY, ✔✔Greenwich Polling Places by District ✔✔Candidates for Board of Selectmen, Town Clerk, NOVEMBER 7 Board of Estimate and Taxation, Board of Education, Representative Town Meeting, Tax Collector, POLLS OPEN Board of Assessment Appeals, Constables 6 A.M. TO 8 P.M. For additional information on voting, visit www.LWVG.org YOU MAY TAKE THIS GUIDE INTO THE PRIVACY BOOTH Election Day Information Late Voter Registration Checking for Mistakes After October 31, 2017, only those who have become Should you make a mistake in marking your ballot, the new residents, new citizens or turn age 18 may Optical Scanner will reject it immediately and return register in person at the Registrars’ Office. However, it to you. Errors include selecting too many candidates if you are unable to register to vote by the normal or circling an oval rather than filling it in; or there deadlines, a new election law passed in Connecticut may simply be stray marks on the ballot. The Machine in 2012 provides for Election Day Registration Tender will assist you by reading the error message in (EDR) in general elections as your last chance. If the optical scan display window. You will be directed you choose to register on Election Day, you must to the Ballot Clerk who will provide you with another appear in person at Town Hall and provide proof ballot. The Ballot Clerk will mark the previous of your identity and residence. A current and valid ballot “spoiled” and will place the spoiled ballot in a Connecticut driver’s license with your Greenwich receptacle for this purpose. You then can start over. address will satisfy both requirements. Other options Writing in a Vote for proof of identity include a birth certificate, social You may write in the name of a candidate that does security card or current student photo ID from an not appear on the ballot. If you write in a name, it institute of higher education. Proof of residence counts as part of the total tally of votes permitted for must include your current address. You will be that office. If only one vote is permitted, you will not asked to fill out a voter registration application and be able to vote for another candidate for that office. affirm—in writing—that you have not already voted Depending on the position, in order to be valid, a in this election. If you have been registered to vote write-in candidate must be registered with the Town in another Connecticut town, the election officials Clerk or Secretary of the State prior to Election must contact your former town to verify your voting Day. If you write in a name, you must also fill in the status. When this is completed, you will be able appropriate bubble so that the Optical Scanner knows to cast your ballot right there. As there is only one there is a write-in vote and can sort your ballot for location, the lines might be long. manual counting at the end of the night. Finding Your Polling Place Asking for Assistance The chart on this page shows the voting districts If you are in the privacy booth and unsure about how in Greenwich, including the exact address of to mark your ballot, two election officials of different the polling locations for each district. You can political parties will be able to assist you from outside look up your registration information by visiting the privacy booth. If you are visually impaired or www.greenwichct.org/vote and click on the link that otherwise handicapped, you may choose another voter says “Check to see if I am registered/Find my polling to be with you, with the permission of the Moderator, place”. You may also call Town Hall (203-622-7889 but this person cannot be your employer or a member or 203-622-7890). of your union leadership. Or you may ask the Checking In – Bring an ID Moderator to allow you to vote on the IVS handicap Greenwich Polling Places by District A sample ballot will be posted at each polling place, equipment provided at each polling location. and the Moderator will be available to answer Voting at Curbside DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 7 questions you may have. Prior to voting you will be For voters who are temporarily disabled due to recent Julian Curtiss School Gymnasium Greenwich High School Auditorium required to show identification to the Identification accident or illness, poll workers can bring a ballot 180 East Elm Street 10 Hillside Road Clerk. This can be any preprinted form showing your and a privacy sleeve to the car. The voter should Greenwich Greenwich name plus one of these three: address, signature or bring someone with them to the polling place to alert photograph. If you do not have suitable identification the poll workers of their presence. DISTRICT 2 DISTRICT 8 with you, you will be asked to print your name and Town Hall, first-floor Central Middle School Cafeteria address on a preprinted statement and sign the form. Voting by Absentee Ballot Meeting Room 9 Indian Rock Lane at You then will begin the check-in process providing If you are a registered voter, you may vote by 101 Field Point Road Stanwich Road your street name and your legal name to the Official absentee ballot if you are: Greenwich Greenwich Checker. First-time voters who registered by mail • Ill or physically disabled; are required to provide identification; they are not • Going to be out of town during voting hours; DISTRICT 3 DISTRICT 9 permitted to sign an affidavit. • In the armed forces and out of town during the voting hours; Western Middle School Gymnasium Bendheim Western Greenwich Getting Your Ballot • A member of a religious group not permitted to 1 Western Junior Highway Civic Center After check-in, the Ballot Clerk will provide you vote on Election Day; Greenwich 449 Pemberwick Road with a paper ballot and privacy sleeve and answer • An election official. Greenwich any questions you may have. You may use any You may obtain an application for an absentee DISTRICT 4 available privacy booth to complete your ballot. All ballot by calling, writing, or going into the office New Lebanon School Gymnasium DISTRICT 10 booths are equipped with pen and magnifying sheet. of the Town Clerk at Town Hall, 101 Field Point 25 Mead Avenue Glenville School Gymnasium Use the pen to completely fill in the oval next to the Road, Greenwich, CT (203-622-7897). When your Byram 33 Riversville Road candidate of your choice. application is returned to the Town Clerk’s office, Greenwich Using the Optical Scanner you will be issued an absentee ballot and two DISTRICT 5 Place your ballot in the privacy sleeve and proceed enclosure envelopes. The sealed marked ballot and Riverside School Gymnasium DISTRICT 11 to the tabulator (optical scanner). Remove the ballot signed outer envelope must reach the Town Clerk’s 90 Hendrie Avenue North Street School Gymnasium from the privacy sleeve, cover the ballot with the office before the close of the polls on Election Day, Riverside 381 North Street sleeve, and insert the ballot into the scanner either November 7. If you have gone to the Clerk’s office Greenwich right side up or down. The machine immediately for your application, you may receive and complete DISTRICT 6 scans the ballot, counts your vote and stores the your ballot at the same time. Old Greenwich School Gymnasium DISTRICT 12 ballot in a locked compartment. 285 Sound Beach Avenue North Mianus School Gymnasium For Your Information Old Greenwich 309 Palmer Hill Road No one is permitted to electioneer or solicit votes Riverside for a political party or candidate within 75 feet of a 2 | VOTER’S GUIDE 2017 polling place or inside a polling place. BOARD OF SELECTMEN First Selectman 2-YEAR TERM (SALARIED) The winner of the First Selectman race holds the office of First Selectman; the next two highest vote getters from that race and the race for Selectman will serve on the Board of Selectman. Candidates for First Selectman responded to two questions in no more than 100 words per question. Candidates for Selectman responded to one question in no more than 100 words per question. Replies are printed as received. Sandy Litvack Peter J. Tesei Democratic Republican 41 Baldwin Farms South 4 Indian Pass Greenwich, CT 06830 Greenwich, CT 06830 Biography: I have lived in Greenwich with my wife and three boys Biography: First Selectman: (2007-Present). BET (1998-2007), since 2005. I have served as: Assistant Attorney General – heading the Chairman (2002-2007). RTM District 9, Chairman (1988-1997). Boy Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, and I have spent a decade at Scouts, Greenwich Symphony, Breast Cancer Alliance. American Red Disney where I was Senior Executive Vice President, Chief of Corporate Operations and Cross, Greenwich Alliance for Education, United Way, Greenwich Point Conservancy. ultimately, Vice Chairman. B.A. Political Science, University of Connecticut. BNY/Mellon Wealth Management Q: What are your three major priorities for the town and how will you address them? (1989-2007), VP. Fifth generation resident. Married; daughter and son. A: 1. Promoting economic growth: we must develop and execute a meaningful growth Q: What are your three major priorities for the town and how will you address them? plan, as we did at Disney, through strategic targeting and recruiting of businesses that A: My first priority is ensuring Greenwich maintains its standing as a premier residential make sense for Greenwich.