I went to vote on Election Day. I was told my name was not on the registered voters’ list. I spelled out my name, but it wasn’t there, and I had to re-register as a new voter. I have voted here for 22 years, and more elsewhere.

I am thankful that the voting public is allowed to register and vote on the same day in Maine, otherwise, I would have been very angry and upset, and I would not have been allowed to vote.

Since then, I have talked with a clerk in my town office. My records are still in Augusta, but I was purged somehow. Apparently, officials were trying to get rid of public records they thought were no longer needed, or of people who are deceased. I am still very much alive.

I found out that I was not the only one in Farmington to whom the same thing happened.

I had wondered why I did not receive any phone calls or mailings from candidates. I enjoy the political scene, and I missed the contacts. I had to research candidates on my own and make up my own mind.

The election commission or officials should rethink their purging or deleting of people’s names. I do not think that is fair, right or ethical. People still have to fight for their freedoms.

The public needs to know what these officials do in the name of freedom.

People won the right to vote and we need to keep that right.

Dorothy M. Soule, Farmington