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Our Declaration of Independence, the forerunner of our great constitution, said, among other things that “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” ; and, certainly, the right to vote is one of the most important of these rights.

Abraham Lincoln best described democracy as government of the people, by the people, for the people. Others have accurately said and written that for government to be by the people requires that the people decide who shall be their leaders, and they do that by voting.

Nationally here in the USA we have decided that to hold true to the foregoing we need to make some changes in our voting system; but according to a recent article in the New York Times state and local election officials have told Congress they cannot get these changes made in time for the November 2008 election.

But there are changes that can and should be made here in Arkansas. We should give county election officials the legal right to let a citizen vote in the county precinct where his greatest political, and economic interest lie. As it is, if he “resides” a few feet outside city limits, he cannot vote in the city, where he owns property and does all his business.

So, far too often, he doesn’t vote at all and the system is not working!

Let us debate this issue!