The newspaper’s opinion in the July 19 paper (“This time, it’s good we can veto a bad new law”) seemed to lack common sense.

From the time our children begin walking, we teach them as parents and teachers to be cautious or teach them the skills of prevention to protect themselves from harm. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” I believe the saying goes. When crossing the street look both ways; you’ll live longer.

School health clinics, along with the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (the newest name) try to help us to understand this concept also:

* Birth-control pills prevent unwanted pregnancies.

* Condoms prevent unwanted diseases, such as STDs and HIV.

* DARE attempts to prevent drug and alcohol abuse.

We are now trying to prevent lung cancer and mouth cancer by educating our young adults about cigarettes and chew.

This country and state has an obesity problem because we did not educate soon enough to prevent future chronic health problems.

Prevention isn’t a bad thing!

Why on earth would we want to encourage the possibility of voter fraud when we can prevent it? Farmington’s town clerk says their college town has to hire extra help (cost to taxpayers). We have one small sampling with birth dates of fraudulent votes by college students that proves this dishonest act. I hope further investigations will be forthcoming.

Voting is a privilege that should not be taken lightly. Each person’s vote must be valued and anytime a person abuses the law by voting in the wrong town/state, they steal the value of the true vote.

Campaigns and primary seasons last many, many months. Truthfully, what is the fear of 48 hours if it could prevent fraud?

Terry Perfetto

Gardiner