REMEMBER HOW OFFICIALS VOTE

I recently found a piece of software that some readers may find helpful at
election time. It's called Note Wonder and can be downloaded from
www.forty.com. It's like a giant note pad that is searchable by any word in
the note.

How is this helpful at election time? Simple. You read in the Log Cabin who
on the school board voted against a proposed policy that the majority of
the parents in the district support, or who on the city council voted with
a developer at the expense of most of the residents of Conway, and type a
note. For instance you would write, "School drug testing policy -- voted
against: Carolyn Lewis, Lena Hancock and Terry Fiddler."

If you're like me, when it's time to vote you won't remember how each
member voted, so you just search "school drug testing" and up pops your own
personal voting guide. I feel sure that if our elected officials know that
election results will be based on their voting record rather than on ads
with their family portraits or thousands of yard signs, they will vote with
the electorate rather than against them.