Clallam County voters have an opportunity to re-establish true representative democracy in our selection of county commissioners.
We vote for commissioners who, in turn, we entrust with the responsibility to govern in direct relationship to the needs and desires of a majority of voters.
In our recent past, this process has been distorted by a change in the method by which we elect commissioners.
This change eliminated county-wide voting for all three commissioners and replaced it with a procedure which restricted the voting only to the residents of each individual district.
The resulting process enabled commissioners to be selected, and become beholden to, a minority of district voters instead of representing 100 percent of the registered countywide voters.
On average, district only voting enabled commissioners to be selected with only 18 percent of the vote versus 56 percent in county wide voting.
A vote for proposed Amendment No. 4, will restore the ability to select and hold all three commissioners accountable on a county wide basis for their actions which affect each of us.
Tony Corrado
Charter Review Commission member, district 1
Sequim