An obvious way to increase voter turnout is to enhance and expand the voting process. By sending out absentee ballots to all voters Hartford would have indeed increased voter turnout. [“City may try to encourage more voting”5/15/24.
] In fact, this should also be done at the state level. And no excuse absentee ballots should be the law of the land. This is simply another way of increasing our democratic process and should quite frankly be a no brainer.
I have no idea why voting by mail hasn’t been written into the law nationwide. The USPS is one of the most trustworthy, tried and true organizations in America. Sanctity of mail in the United States is unsurpassed throughout the world.
Curtis Roessler, West Hartford “Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. ..
. There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all others, by size or figure or beauty and variety of colors, in the human hive. No man has yet produced any revelation from heaven in his favor, any divine communication to govern his fellow men.
Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike. ..
. “The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved.
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“Ambition is one of the most ungovernable passions of the human hear.