A Fundamental Threat To Democracy
To the Editor,
I submitted a letter for your August 23rd edition (“Cherish Free And Fair Elections That Are Foundation Of Democracy”), regarding widespread belief that we don’t have free and fair elections in our country. More information is coming in on this and the picture is not good.
Today’s news includes a disturbing story in The Hill, a respected political publication that is relied on by both political parties. “Almost half of Republicans say they won’t accept election results if their candidate loses.” This portends more turmoil and dysfunction following the election. This belief that a Republican loss must be due to fraud, factually baseless, originated from Donald Trump and his supporters. There is zero evidence of widespread fraud in our 2020 election. Repeat: there is zero evidence of widespread fraud in our 2020 election.
This harmful delusion should be addressed by Republican leaders at the national, state and local levels. All politics is local. Mitch Bolinsky, Tony Hwang, Jeff Capeci, please make your voices heard on this critical issue. Thanks in advance for displaying wisdom and fortitude as our local leaders.
Peter Van Buskirk
Newtown
Oh, please! It is not just Republicans who are worried about potential fraud and undue influence in elections, and with good reason. A recent Rasmussen poll showed over 60% of likely voters felt fraud had influenced the 2020 election. Now why would they think that when Blue state election officials refuse to pare their rolls of thousands of ineligible voters, federal forms do not allow officials to check citizenship status and Republican poll watchers were not allowed to observe in Democrat cities like Detroit and Philadelphia. In addition, many municipalities have more registered voters than eligible citizens! Add that to Mark Zuckerberg donating 500 million to the 2020 election, 99% of it going to Democrat strongholds, 50 former Defense and Intelligence officials stating the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation, plus Fulton County being sanctioned for incompetent running of the 2020 election.
It is only logical to hold approval till after the election to see if the numbers add up. Democrats are already telling us that results will be delayed, wink, wink!
Agree. All this “threat to democracy” rhetoric is tiring…and frankly, beneath us all.
Peter, I’m surprised to see you utilizing “truthiness” to make your case here, but I’m not sure what else you’re left with in the state of CT. After witnessing the embarrassment of the ruling Democrat party by fraudsters like Alfredo Castillo and Wanda Geter-Pataky operating in Bridgeport the average voter has to consider: are Democrats stuffing ballot boxes like these 2 repeat offenders the ONLY bad apples, or is this systemic? Are we supposed to believe they ONLY stuffed ballots for local elections? You can keep writing letters to the editor claiming “no evidence” but hopefully the voting public pays attention to these cases as they are investigated and prosecuted.
One word – Bridgeport. Nuff said.