Indiana's only town still governed by a charter
On this episode: On Monday, March 3, voters in the Town of Vernon, Ind., — population 236 — casted their ballots in the state’s ONLY regularly-scheduled election of the year. The reason Vernon is such an outlier is because it is the only town in the state still governed by a charter, which was enacted in 1851, rather than state law.
Here’s what Vernon voted on earlier this week, how some of their election-day practices date back to colonial times, and generally how charters alter local governance.
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