More on Doyle ban in Barre

Add Barre City resident Bill Day to the list of people upset by the Board of Civil Authority’s decision to ban Sen. Bill Doyle’s Town Meeting Day survey from the Barre City balloting station this year.
“My thought is they’re taking away my right as a resident of Barre City to express myself,” Day said this afternoon.
The BCA, as we previously reported, decided at a meeting last Thursday that Doyle’s famous town-meeting survey resembled something akin to campaign material. They apparently told Doyle he could dispense the surveys only if he removed his name and contact information from the one-page survey.
Doyle declined. And Day said you can’t just take the “Doyle” out of the “Doyle Survey.”
“If people didn’t see his name on it, then they wouldn’t associate it with the survey they’ve been filling out for years,” Day said. “It’s been a reputable poll for years.”