THE EDITOR, Sir:
THIS IS an open letter to the voters of N.E. St. Ann who will turn out today to determine the future of Jamaica.
I am asking you to vote on my behalf since I do not have a vote in that constituency.
It is possible that you could humour me and ask: "Well... how would you like me to vote?"
The answer is simple. Vote as your conscience tells you. Your conscience is that meeting place between you and God "the light that lighteth every person that comes into the world" (St. John Ch. 1 v. 9).
If you sell your vote for a "mess of pottage" i.e. curry goat and white rum, you will suffer and so will your children and grandchildren. If you vote for a candidate simply because you expect him/her to win, then you are a spectator and the spectacle you will see is suffering in your own mirror and in the eyes of your children and grandchildren.
If you vote more than once, this is unfair to all candidates including the one you are so generously voting for and you will reap corruption. If you vote because of promises promises you have not examined promises you have not questioned, ...you will reap the bitterness of broken promises!!
If you examine what the four candidates are offering and choose carefully what makes best sense for you and your children and then vote once, ...I will be happy with the result.
I am, etc.,
M. H. ELLIOTT
Gordon Town P.O.
St. Andrew
