Dear editor,
My wife and I have voted for 60 years without a miss. This year we voted by mail. It was very easy, but I see there can be problems.
My wife got her ballot and I didn’t. Our mail delivery isn’t the best since they changed things a few years back. Now, the post office is open only four hours a day. Our Iola Register is two to three days late now that it is routed through Kansas City. Some days we may get three papers at a time. If someone dies, they may be buried before we see the obituary.
In regards to the recent election, I waited nine days before I called the county clerk. She said I had listed a post office box as well as a street address, which confused things. We have lived in the same house for 48 years.
So she sent me a new form and I filled in just the street address.
About a week later she called and said it came back with the P.O. box address.
She sent another form and it came, with two weeks to go until the election.
President Trump has been tweeting and every time he is on TV, which is every day, he says it is unsafe to use the postal service and there is going to be a lot of fraud with the upcoming election.
This is just not true.
He is the leader of the country. With 80 days until the election he could be trying to shore up any problems with the postal service and make sure Russia doesn’t get any more involved.
Instead, he has slowed down the post office by appointing someone with no background in running something this big. The new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, gave more than $1 million to Trump’s campaign. So he bought his job.
With absentee voting there is a barcode on the envelope and you also must sign your name on the outside. If that signature doesn’t match the one on your ballot, it will be set aside and checked out. If there is a very close election like there was two years ago with the primary election that included Kris Kobach and Jeff Colyer, all the votes will be recounted. Then, it took about four days to recount the votes.
I think with all the talk Trump is carrying on about fraud that he may claim the election is not legal and refuse to leave if he loses. Nothing that Trump says or does would surprise me.
David Comstock,
Colony, Kan.
