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Posted
March 31, 2006
| Every
Resident Should Have a Vote |
| To the editor: |
| Every Reston Association household has had the opportunity
this March to exercise its right to vote on two separate issues,
the Governing Documents referendum and the RA board candidates.
Both times, each household has had one vote, regardless of
the number of voters living in the household. This voting
system disenfranchises at least half if not more of the registered
voters in each household. Quite likely, when members of a
household want to vote differently from each other, the result
is that none of them vote. |
| As a Reston Association board member and also a supporter
of Reston becoming a town, I feel compelled to point out that
if Reston were an official town, town elections would operate
democratically under the principle of one person, one vote. |
| Reston is a mature political community that needs, in these
changing times, all the citizen input it can get. RA stewardship
of Reston's needs and resources has served us well in the
past, but, as we have graduated into one of the main economic
engines of Fairfax County, it may not cut it. The assessed
value of Reston property is roughly equal to the annual GDP
of the kingdom of Jordan. A homeowners' association doesn't
have the authority within Reston or the official standing
within the county or the state that we will need to address
Reston's future needs. |
| The answer to this problem is simple. Reston should have
a referendum on town status. Let the citizens of Reston decide
their own fate. |
| John Fay |
| Reston |
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