This e-mail is in response to the editorial written by Heather Tyrrell in the November 10th Phoenix about her voting experience.

NEWS FLASH, IT WAS YOUR FAULT.
Are we all willing to believe that everything that happens to us is someone else’s fault? Don’t we have any personal responsibilities in life? I commend you for taking the time and energy to vote in this election. However, the difficulties that you experienced could have been easily averted by you had you paid a little more attention to detail. Let’s try to count the ways. 1) Did you ask when you got your marriage license and changed your name if your voter registration would be automatically updated? 2) Did you ask when you renewed your drivers license if your voter registration would be automatically updated with your new name and address? Have you changed your address on you license since you moved? 3) Did you file a change of name with voter services? 4) Did you file a change of address with voter services. Is it your responsibility or the governments to accomplish these simple tasks? It’s your responsibly.

You say you voted in 2008. NEWS FLASH, you missed the last seven elections. Three general elections and four primaries. Is that how you exercise your voting privilege? Do you think that voting once every four years for the president makes you a responsible voter? I would think the editor of a news paper would be more conscientious. I certainly would not want everyone reading the paper to know that I didn’t vote regularly.