In the film "Brubaker" when someone speaks up for what they believe is wrong with the establishment they end up in a grave. In the town of Groton when this happens they take you off the Republican voting list.

I headed to the polls early to vote in the primary. Having religiously voted in this town for 22 years I was informed that I was not a registered voter. I presented my driver’s license and then a town councilor, whom was there apparently "working the polls" called the Town Hall to inquire as to my status. He informed me I had been listed as invalid in our system and taken off the list because I had not voted in five years. That is not the case.

I was next informed that I had to fill out a voter registration card if I wanted to vote, which I did. I want to go on record and say that it frightens me to know that if I had arrived after the Town Hall had closed I would have been unable to vote.

Shelley Gardner

Mystic