In the Sun Journal story (June 24) about the Buckfield town meeting, the design editor chose to use Mr. Hicks’ statement, “Anybody who can’t come to one meeting a year deserves the kind of government they get.”

That utterance pertained to, and opposed, an article to replace voting on town meeting articles in the future by referendum secret ballot with provision for absentee balloting by those unable, for any reason, to attend the conventional town meeting.

As Mr. Hicks spoke, one family of my acquaintance sat at home, the wife a victim of MS, who cannot drive at night, her husband housebound by a different disabling ailment.

That family is but one example of citizens of Buckfield who are disenfranchised because of legitimate and overwhelming circumstances that prevent their attending the now conventional, mid-June, midweek, nighttime Buckfield town meeting.

On those grounds alone, the Buckfield town meeting, as presently conducted, may even be in conflict with the Americans with Disabilities Act and its reflections in Maine state law.

The meeting, as now conducted, is certainly in conflict with a due regard for those whose circumstances either prevent their attendance at the meeting or make attendance prohibitively difficult.

Charles A. Berg, Buckfield