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lhe general elections on November 8 give the huge majority of Rappahannock voters their only chance to make a choice based on personal knowledge and personal experience. It is probably the only chance most of us will have to pick our governmental representatives based on what we have seen and what we have heard rather than on reports filtered through the news media.
We have the opportunity to meet the candidates for the board of supervisors, sheriff and commonwealth attorney as they make their stops on the campaign trail. We can ask questions on the issues when we see them at club meetings, at the fire hall, and at forums sponsored by the Rappahannock County Education Association and the Rappahannock County Women’s Club, scheduled for next month.
But that knowledge won’t mean a thing if we don’t register.
According to registrar Ruth B. Kilby, only half of the county’s eligible voters are registered. Virginia Governor Charles S. Robb has proclaimed September as Voter Registration Month. As part of the drive to up registration by 10 percent, the governor’s goal, Kilby has been at fire halls in Flint Hill, Washington, Amissville, Chester Gap and Sperryville in the past month. And how
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