To the editor:
My letter concerns voting. For most of my adult life, I have been a member of the League of Women Voters because I had been taught in school that voting was important and when I grew up, I discovered that many people didn’t register to vote and the League helped do this. More recently, I have discovered that of the many people who register to vote, many don’t. In many Marblehead elections, sometimes 80% of registered voters do not vote. Why? Since town elections elect our local government officials and members of our many boards, committees and commissions that set the policies and plan the financial outlays of our town, this hasn’t made sense to me. Sometimes people say, “My vote won’t make a difference.” But we once had a selectmen’s election decided by one vote! I’d like to hear from you voters who do not vote. And if the paper gets a lot of letters, perhaps the paper could do a little research into this. We have a presidential election coming up and while the percentage of voters goes up during those elections, it goes back down in the next town election. I challenge each voter who votes in the presidential election to vote in the next town election. We have a primary election on Sept. 3 and the presidential election on Nov. 5. Make your voices heard by voting.
Lee Mondale
Guernsey Street