To the Editor:
Again the voters of the KRSD are confronted with a ballot question that they cannot answer by their own conscience in equity to all other voters with ballot in hand. The KRSD Charter is an unbelievable fraud put upon the voters and as agreed to by the courts.
Some say the fault lies with the voters of the district who do not participate in the deliberative (first) session to set a choice for the voters. I say such thinking is faulty for under no circumstance can (should) the deliberative session deny equal opportunity to agree with, or not agree with what is demanded of the voters by their government when it comes to the official ballot.
The ballot is the authority of the voters to give consent, and nothing else applies. Yes, the KRSD needs some kind of a budget, but not at the cost of voting rights. Not another venue in New Hampshire (USA) does this to its citizens.
The Supreme Court of the United States has made very clear that fundamental rights trump personal agendas and that definitely covers politics of state government and the local courts. Each and every citizen has a right to vote as they see fit on any and every question lawfully put before them.
The statutes of New Hampshire require that the operating budget of the KRSD be put on the official ballot and the New Hampshire Constitution requires that every citizen shall have an equal opportunity to answer the question.
Does the law require a yes or no response, not exactly, but there is no other appropriation on any New Hampshire ballot that does not require a yes or no vote from the voters.
So what is at fault here?
It is easy to center on the incompetence of the General Court, or the politics of the circuit courts, but the truth is that the citizens don’t care, or don’t know about their fundamental rights. Wake up!
Charles P. Forsberg
North Sutton. N.H.
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