Letter: Voters speak

To the editor:

Recently some folks were wailing and gnashing their teeth over their candidates’ losses in the elections.  Boo-hoo. Perhaps the young college student should research the last three administrations’ history and find a year that state universities did not raise tuition.  She’ll soon realize that the higher education community is filled with folks who don’t feel as though they have to face the burden of economic downturn that the rest of us face.  The governor doesn’t raise tuition; the Kansas Board of Regents does and has been happy to do so many years in a row.

Yell if you must, but if all of your like-minded people voted, then there were more people voting that did not agree with you. Even with ridiculously long early voting and lax checks on mail-in ballots, if they didn’t — and of the 43 states with competitive races, not one reached the 60 percent voting level — then too bad.  You don’t vote; you forfeit your say.