Election lawsuit like patching a leak that isn’t there

It’s hard enough having to deal with some of our stubborn and selfish neighbors unnecessarily putting other’s health at risk, but now they’re embarrassing, too.

The recent report on the local GOP attempt to perpetuate Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election nearly a full year later by engaging in another ridiculous and frivolous lawsuit alleging that our voting machines are “obviously not working” and demanding an Arizona-style audit (“Lawsuits claim 2020 ballots in Washington were manipulated,” The Herald, Sept. 20).

Ridiculous, for several of the 28 people from Snohomish County who’ve signed on as plaintiffs aren’t actually claiming to have seen or experienced illicit activity or massive fraud yet still insist, “we just felt let’s get it as honest as we can.” You what? Isn’t that like spending time and money to patch a leak in the hull that wasn’t there, or pay to have a dent in the car repaired that hasn’t happened yet?

Come on folks, let’s get real here; that crack in the mirror you’re seeing isn’t in the glass.

Dennis Doolittle

Arlington

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