To the Editor:

With regard to your article, “Dems nix GOP nominee, Saddlemire launches write-in,” in the Oct. 6 issue of The Enterprise [online at AltamontEnterprise.com] , what can one say except that this is Knox politics in a nutshell: One party lowers itself to any means necessary, no matter how petty and demeaning, to disenfranchise voters in the town; the other party is so hapless it cannot figure out how to get its candidate on the ballot in a timely way and according to the letter of the law.

What is the thinking here? This country’s political system requires at least two viable political parties if its citizens are to have any form of democracy at all. The town of Knox effectively has, and has had for far too long, a single-party system.

It would serve both parties right if the voters declared “A pox on both your houses” and voted for the write-in candidate Ken Saddlemire, who is eminently qualified to serve on the town board and has been treated shamefully by both the Democratic and the Republican parties.

The election of 2016 is going to be a “change election” up and down the ballot.  Perhaps it would be a breath of fresh air if the voters of Knox voted for a candidate that really represents change.

Raymond Hand

Knox