Reply #2: I agree - I also don't get why it takes months to set up an election

[karynnj]

My town decided in December to have an election last month - a few weeks after the primaries to let people vote on a referendum that was not included last November as the all Republican town council blocked it even when people in the town demanded it and turned in petitions(TWICE) with about 1000 signatures requesting it. They rejected them on technicalities, but the court ruled they had to let people vote.

At any rate, we had an election less than 2 months after they lost the court case. Just as in all elections, we got the paper version of the sample ballots ahead of time, the books to sign were there, as were the machines in the polling places we always voted at.

This was only one town, but that actually made it harder. Here the state could use a standardized form that each town could add 2 labels to with the name/address and the polling place. Getting the machines, books etc is no harder, and potentially easier with the whole state voting. This sounds like people who don't want a solution.

(Side note - here is what 100% Republican government would look like. This LTTE is from a former Democratic town counsel person and he is making nothing up. http://www.recordernewspapers.com/articles/2008/03/12/randolph_reporter/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/doc47cef680020dc194731656.txt )