Regarding your paper’s Sunday editorial, “Save the money: Move now to all-mail voting,” I strongly feel that mail voting is currently responsible for much voter fraud today. As for saving money, I have been hearing from varying sources, it is now considered more expensive to vote by mail than previously thought. The cost for remaining poll voting is peanuts compared to the senseless and wasteful spending by all levels of government at the present.
Voting is a serious issue for all eligible voters. Every effort should be made to keep the system free from fraud and abuse.
When I was a young man living in another state, no one was allowed to vote absentee unless that person was using a military address outside the voting jurisdiction, or filed an affidavit claiming a justifiable reason for not being able to reach the polls. Today, in our efforts to lure everyone possible to the polls, we have resorted to outrageous rules and procedures that have degraded the sanctity of the voting system. Certainly, mail-vote procedures should be in place to accommodate the infirm and people who cannot reach a polling place. Those who are too lazy or otherwise inconvenienced to go to the polls during the lengthy hours allotted, probably should not be voting anyway. Most places of employment provide the opportunity for employees to vote on election days.
I hope the neighborhood, ward or precinct polls are never eliminated. If it ever comes to pass, my intent is to deliver my ballot personally to the county auditor. I am disappointed regarding your editorial stand on this matter. This is one time I agree with Julie Muhlstein. It might be nice that whoever authored your editorial walk down the hall and have a chat with her.
Jim Hawkins
Camano Island
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