Freedom, privacy to vote being taken away

Published 1:12 pm Friday, January 25, 2008

I would like to address the Jan. 6 article, “Your primary vote will cost you an oath.”

It’s bad enough to take away the blanket primary voting we had for years. Then we are told we must check our ballot by party and vote that way only. Following this, we all have to vote by absentee ballot and polling locations are taken away. Now, to vote in the presidential primary, we are required to sign an oath stating we are a Democrat or a Republican.

The blanket voting worked for years and never messed up Republican or Democrats votes.

In recent primaries, I unwillingly checked a party preference on my ballot. I wanted my vote to count. But to sign an oath to pledge allegiance? Where is our right to true privacy of voting?

To vote for president, we are being forced to choose and sign allegiance or wait until the general election. How soon will it be before they make us do all this in a general election?

My freedom as a citizen to vote and how I choose is being taken away. How I vote or for which party is no one’s business … period!

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, is the old saying.

Sorry. The way things are going, the voting system is broken. I hate to say it, but it sounds like our country is heading toward communism. The politicians want it their way or no way and to heck with us!

OK, America, how many times are you just going to let people run over our freedoms one by one?

Think about it.

Norma Anderson