Letters to the Editor: Make voting easier, not harder

Dear Editor:

Regarding Martha Morrissy’s letter, she seems to imply that our most recent election was imbued with “massive fraud” as Donald Trump repeatedly states.

There is no evidence of that. In the state of Georgia, both the governor and the secretary of state, who are both Republicans, oversaw an audit which confirmed that Joe Biden won their state by 12,670 votes. The audit also did not detect any particular irregularities.

Ms. Morrissy also stats that “tabulation of all ballots must take place on the day of the election.” I should think this would create problems in states that don’t start processing ballots until Election Day. When the polls close at 8 pm, they would then have just four hours left to process all the incoming ballots.

Why rush a task that everyone wants done with great care and accuracy? It would seem like a tactic to suppress the vote.

Jack Russell
Downey

Dear Editor:

I read a very strange letter in the Patriot under the title “How to fix our elections.” The letter proposed a series of solutions to entirely imaginary problems.

We have just held an election in which almost 160 million Americans voted, the highest percentage of eligible voters in 120 years. Despite Donald Trump’s ceaseless lies, even his sycophantic Attorney General has stated publicly that there is no evidence of fraud that would affect the outcome of the election in any way.

Trump’s lawyers have filed more than 50 cases in various states in state and Federal courts all the way up to the US Supreme Court. All have been dismissed, which shows that it is one thing to spew lies on Twitter and television and something quite different to enter a court of law and be required to produce actual evidence.

Election officials of both parties across the country have conducted the election with integrity and efficiency despite economic disruptions, a disastrous epidemic, and extreme partisanship directed at them. If we really want to fix our elections, we should get rid of the Electoral College and Republican-imposed gerrymandering and vote suppression.

The fact is that Americans can and should be proud of this election and of the triumph of American democracy despite so many threats to it.

Don Marshall
Fullerton