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always felt that voting is a special privilege. So many people have said to me, ‘why vote? It’s only one vote’ but that’s all any of us have.” Once again, Mrs. Cleverley was faced with the challenge of organizing handwritten voter registration records into a comprehensive up-to-date record; there were more than 2,000 names for the entire county.
Virginia was one of three states chosen to operate a pilot project for central registry of eligible voters, with records being stored in a computer for ease of record transfer when a voter moves from one county to another. The computer is also a guard against people registering in more than one county.
Mrs. Cleverley points out, “In maintaining records for a computer, Rappahannock is faced with the same task as a larger place, such as the cities of Richmond or Alexandria." She gives much credit for the successful completion of the reorganization to her assistant, Ruth Kilby, who became county registrar at Mrs. Cleverley’s retirement.
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