Steven Sussman of Littleton, Massachusetts, raises an important point in his letter to the editor in today's Boston Globe.

Sussman writes that Galvin's purported investigation ignored the 109,068 signatures on the anti-gay marriage ballot measure that "could include an unknown number of victims of the alleged misrepresentation." The central claim of fraud here is that signature-gatherers for this petition used a "bait and switch" tactic, asking people to sign a petition related to the sale of wine and then giving them instead the form for the anti-gay marriage initiative. As Sussman points out, Galvin's investigation -- which, according to Galvin's own admission in his December 23, 2005 letter to the Globe, consisted of comparing signatures on both petitions -- would not have uncovered this fraud.

I agree with Sussman: "Galvin owes the citizens of the Commonwealth a more serious investigation."