Again the voters of the Kearsarge Regional School District 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.
The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that fundamental rights trump private agendas and that definitely covers politics of state government and the local courts. Each and every citizen has the right to vote up or down 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 N.H. Constitution requires that every franchised citizen shall have an equal right to answer the question. This is the law. Does the applicable law require a yes or no response? Not exactly, but there is no other appropriation of any kind on any N.H. ballot that does not require a “yes” or “no” vote from the voters that I know of.
So what is at fault here? It is easy to center on the incompetence of the General Court or the politics of our state courts, but the truth is that the citizens appear not to care, or don’t know about, their fundamental rights, and always the need to preserve their rights. Wake up, people.
CHARLES P. FORSBERG
North Sutton