
Voting is a privilege that all too few exercise, whether the elections are national, local or hyper-local.
It is our obligation to make it easier for qualified voters to be registered and to go to the polls and for them to be knowledgeable about their choices.
Voter turnout may be higher in years when we vote for national and state elections, but moving county and town elections to those years is not the solution for greater participation in local races.
Instead of drawing attention to our local candidates in off-year elections, it will simply bury them as another down-ballot race that will be barely considered.
We may as well hold votes for school boards, library boards and local district commissioners on the same November Election Day and lose interest in them all at the same time.
Kenneth Buettner
Former School Board Member
Port Washington
um….the title given to the letter says the exact opposite of what the letter writer is saying….