MLIRD

Reader agrees with one person, one vote plan

This country broke away from the British Empire in 1776 so that each man could become a free voting citizen and not continue to be under the control of the elite and titled landowners. The Civil War was fought partly to give citizenship to all men regardless of race and in the early 1900s the women's suffrage movement extended that citizenship right to women. Most of all other wars have been fought to protect the right and extend it to others.

One person has only one vote in most cases, except in the case of corporations where a person has purchased additional votes by buying additional shares of stock. Only then does one have votes based upon shares and not on citizenship rights, taxes paid or property owned.

We have five properties in the Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District, which give us the present right of 10 votes. Since we pay taxes in the district, we have the right to vote but that should be one vote for each owner only, as this country has maintained that all citizens should be equal and not based upon a person's wealth. If it is to be based upon land ownership, we would then be back to the feudal system of ownership of land for voting power.

Clay Crook

Moses Lake