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Don Dittmer, Lake Huntington
Posted 6/15/21

To the editor:

The Lifelines “Voting matters” column that ran on Friday, May 21 complains about misinformation from Fox News having the country deeply affected, are you sure it’s …

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To the editor:

The Lifelines “Voting matters” column that ran on Friday, May 21 complains about misinformation from Fox News having the country deeply affected, are you sure it’s not CNN since they were caught lying to mislead the American Public by the liberal outlets as well as Fox?

Lifelines agrees with FiveThirtyEight that over 50% of Americans approve of Biden, which would be about 160 million people except the 5 surveys 538 used amount to just over 7000 people polled, nowhere near 160 million. I expressed this point in my ‘surveys/poll’ letter.

Lifelines likes Ian Millhiser’s data that shows the Senate is malapportioned giving smaller states as many Senators as larger states. Read the Constitution Article 1, Section 3 ‘The Senate of the US shall be composed of two senators from each state,’ each having 1 vote, equality.

Lifelines and the NY Times say Heritage wants to restrict voting except Heritage (2021) is saying the same things the 2005 BI-PARTISAN committee of the Federal Election Reform Commission aka Carter-Baker report that found ‘Absentee Ballots’ remain the largest source of potential Voter Fraud and called on states to increase voter ID requirements; to be leery of mail-in voting; to halt ballot harvesting; to maintain voter lists to ensure dead people are promptly removed; to allow election observers to monitor ballot counting; and to make sure voting machines are working properly and for media to refrain from calling elections too early and from touting exit polls. Sixteen years later and nothing adopted. I can see why Lifelines doesn’t like the bipartisan ideas.

You need Photo ID to cash checks, see your doctor, to get past security, if Police ask you and to purchase alcohol and/or guns, why not to vote? Such an important right we have, voting, and you don’t have to prove who you are to do so!

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  • DRC

    Exactly and falsely claiming that requiring voter ID is RACIST is so outrageous. If you listen to what Biden has said over MANY years, he believes black people don't know how to use the internet, can't find the local DMV, don't have any ID that would allow. them to vote, so therefore requiring proof that you are who you say you ere is "racist". When asked in several interviews, available on line, black people easily and happily showed their Id's that they use for all kinds of verification, including when they go to vote. They were surprised and some were angry that Biden and other white people think they didn't know how to obtain an ID. Still, some people are going to keep believing the lie that requiring voter ID is racist.

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