Why you should check your voter registration information Questions for the anti-maskers
I’ve been voting for years now, and I recently voted in the primaries, so I didn’t expect there’d be any issue with my voter registration — until I started mail-in-ballot research by checking my registration.
I typed in my town, name and birth date into the form on the Secretary of the State’s website at https:// portaldir.ct.gov/sots/LookUp.aspx. The search returned “no record found.” I double-checked my spellings and inputs and searched again. Same result: no record found. So I went down to my local registrar in Farmington to see what the problem was.
After checking my driver’s license and voter registration card, we learned that the electronic database had the wrong birth date recorded. We corrected it, then and there. Later, I checked to see if it was corrected online, and it was.
More recently, my application for absentee ballot showed up with the wrong birth date still. So I went down to town hall again. We learned that the applications were printed before the correction had been made. The Town Clerk’s office verified my correct birth date was in the system and that there would be no issue with my ballot, which had been worrying me most.
Lessons learned: Check your voter registration, even if you’ve recently voted. Also, we have fine, capable people working in our registrars’ and clerk’s office in Farmington. And despite the occasional snag, our voting system works.
Brendan Miggins, Farmington
I would like to ask all anti-mask protesters some questions.
Assuming you drive a car, what side of a two-lane road do you drive on? The right, because it is a state law. This law was not passed to limit anyone’s freedoms. It was passed because it is rather obvious that we all must agree on which side of the road to use to avoid injury.
Similarly, mask regulations exist to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. That masks help in this regard is beyond debate. They have been proven many times to do so.
You cannot live in a society of more than one person without giving up some personal freedom. That is the price one pays for the benefits living in a society provide. Why are you not willing to wear a mask — if not for you own sake, at least for the sake of your fellow citizens?
Mark Child, Windsor