The full text of the Letter to the Editor of the Armadale Examiner, sent on 07 October 2007, is below.
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Many people have had letters published, and, advertisements and
flyers distributed, and, apparently phone calls made, relating to
what are the issues, and who people should vote for and against, in
this local government election.
I am a candidate in the local
government elections.
I am not going to say in this letter,
whether people should vote for me, or against me in the election, or
what are the issues that I consider important. The electors packs, d
istributed by the Electoral Commission, should have contained
sufficient information for eligible electors within the ward, to
decide for whom to vote.
I say that a most important thing
for all eligible voters to consider, is that, whatever the outcome of
the election and, whatever, whoever is elected, does in the council,
in the future, it is the eligible electors, who are responsible.
In
the last ordinary local government elections in this state, the Lake
Ward of Armadale had the status of having the lowest voter
participation in the state. Only about one in four eligible voters,
voted. So, three-quarters of the eligible voters, appear to have been
happy with the way things were, or, given that neither of the two
candidates were sitting councillors, just couldn't be bothered
voting, as whatever happened at the city council, was regarded by
them as having no importance or effect on them.
So, I say
here, not that people should vote for me, or against me, but that
people, in the ward in which I am a candidate, and, in all of the
wards in all of the districts in which this newspaper is distributed,
should make the effort and vote. It is the future of them, and of the
children, and anyone else who cannot vote, that is affected by the
decision to vote or note to vote.
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