Today's required reading

Mark Watton (read his last name backwards) in today's dead-tree and bits-and-bytes edition of The Telegram:

Now, we're actively encouraging voters to cast scribble-in ballots before they even know who they're voting for. All of these provisions afford tremendous advantage to the 48 members who sit in the legislature. Isn't it time our election laws represented the interests of the voters instead?

Much more.