To the editor:

Mr. X, the former owner of our home, just received official USPS delivered notification from the Barrington Board of Canvassers that his registration to vote has been cancelled because he has been inactive in voting during the past two federal elections. I assume that means that he has not voted in the past four years.

Mr. X has been deceased for approximately 35 years. 

That fact led me to believe that the record keeping of the Barrington Board of Canvassers must be quite dismal. However, it also occurred to me that perhaps he had voted in federal elections up until the last four years. After all this is Rhode Island and allegedly the deceased vote frequently in our little corner of heaven. 

It also suggests that voter ID surveillance at polling stations have curtailed this once hallowed privilege. I wonder how many other citizens have been similarly stricken from the electoral rolls. For those of us who have yet to suffer this particular fate: “Vote early and often.”

Stephen E Glinick

Barrington