SB2 should be adopted in Moultonboro
Meredith News
April 12, 2007
To the Editor:
I would like to thank the voters of Moultonborough for your support of SB2 on March 13, 2007, Election Day. With over 39 percent of the voters supporting SB2, it is obvious there is concern over the inability of more voters to participate in the deliberative meetings. Your effort to help them is appreciated. Contrary to the critics, with SB2 in Wolfeboro, 46 percent of the voters voted and being well informed, they even voted for all the articles. In Moultonboro, the turnout was again disappointing, with only 28% of the voters voting on Election Day.
Only 9 percent of registered voters voted at town meeting and only three percent attended the school district meeting to vote on all the spending issues. The numbers have really not changed since last year. Contrary to the critics of SB2,it was in the Moultonborough Town Meeting that included the very manipulation by special interests that they had warned SB2 would allow. As for their claims of educating the public, the school district meeting had almost no public discussion at all, with only one person asking any questions. Judging from the continued low turnout, it is clear that town and school meetings are a relic of the past. They no longer represent the majority of the voters. SB2 would allow more voters to vote and be heard, even by absentee ballot.
Al Hume
Moultonborough
April 12, 2007
To the Editor:
I would like to thank the voters of Moultonborough for your support of SB2 on March 13, 2007, Election Day. With over 39 percent of the voters supporting SB2, it is obvious there is concern over the inability of more voters to participate in the deliberative meetings. Your effort to help them is appreciated. Contrary to the critics, with SB2 in Wolfeboro, 46 percent of the voters voted and being well informed, they even voted for all the articles. In Moultonboro, the turnout was again disappointing, with only 28% of the voters voting on Election Day.
Only 9 percent of registered voters voted at town meeting and only three percent attended the school district meeting to vote on all the spending issues. The numbers have really not changed since last year. Contrary to the critics of SB2,it was in the Moultonborough Town Meeting that included the very manipulation by special interests that they had warned SB2 would allow. As for their claims of educating the public, the school district meeting had almost no public discussion at all, with only one person asking any questions. Judging from the continued low turnout, it is clear that town and school meetings are a relic of the past. They no longer represent the majority of the voters. SB2 would allow more voters to vote and be heard, even by absentee ballot.
Al Hume
Moultonborough
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