It has long been the policy of this newspaper not to endorse candidates for public office. On the other hand, it has always been the policy of this newspaper to endorse VOTING and to support any and all efforts to make exercising what is arguably a citizens most important right and duty as convenient as humanly possible.

In that spirit we extend our sincere thanks to the Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Public Library for their vote to continue to make our public libraries available to third party voter registration organizations, so long as long as they follow the already strict rules of non-partisanship.

Happily there appears to have been no attempt at voter suppression here in Loudoun.

What appears to have been a clear violation of the non-partisanship rules, produced both a protest, and a big mistake.

In response to a protest, County government, apparently by mistake, created the impression that the libraries had to follow the same voter-registration activity rules as any other Loudoun Country government building.

That, of course, was not the case.

The Library Board of Trustees rose to the occasion, and voted without dissent to continue its decades-long support of voter registration.

Now the ball is in our court.

Vote.

It counts.