As we approach voting time, I hope more Utah citizens are planning on participating in the election process than in previous off-year elections. I am tired of listening to the complaints about our government and specifically about our elected representatives when so few qualified citizens take the time to participate in the election process and when so many of that few just blindly mark their ballots according to a party label.
In a state such as Utah, where one party dominates, those who are in the minority tend to feel that their votes are not worth anything, so they don’t vote. But most of the citizens in our state are not hard-line right- or left-wingers. Most of the people in this state are down-to-earth people who care about others. In an off-year election, it is even more important that those who haven’t sold their souls to a specific party get out and vote, or the things we don’t like about the system just continue to get worse.
Fred Ash
Sandy, Utah