Letter to the Editor: Reform ensures election integrity
Trending
I'm writing in rebuttal to the op-ed in the Dec. 5 newspaper titled "Time is short to maintain presumption of majority rule."
Without the electoral college, only the states with major population centers, New York, California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Ohio, Florida and Arizona, would pick our presidents. States like West Virginia would have no say. Our founding fathers knew this and wisely set up the electoral college so even small states would have a say in electing our presidents.
As for gerrymandering, no one complains when the Democrats are in power, but when Republicans gain power, the Democrats start screaming gerrymandering is unfair. Hypocrisy at its finest.
The author of the op-ed has his facts backwards. Because they know they are going to take a shellacking in the upcoming 2022 election, due to their broadly unpopular socialist, America-last policies, the Democrats are in panic mode. Look at Joe Biden's approval numbers. Biden enjoys (enjoys?) a 36% approval number among the American people and an 18% approval number by the people of West Virginia. Most Americans do not approve of an open southern border, sky-high energy prices, a peace through appeasement foreign policy, an anti-second amendment agenda, forced mask mandates, etc.
Our founding fathers didn't want a corrupt, out-of-control federal government, which we have today, corrupting our elections, so they gave most of the control of our elections to the individual state legislatures. The Democrats are currently laying the groundwork to federalize future elections, usurping all authority from the states, so they can remain in power and continue pushing their unpopular, socialist agenda.
The 19 states which enacted election reform laws did so to ensure the integrity of future elections, by requiring strict voter IDs, signature verification, requiring drop boxes in secure locations, absentee ballots by request only, purging voter rolls of deceased or voters who moved out of state, etc. The banning of food or water to voters waiting in line is false, period. In short, the states' voting reforms make it easier for legal voters to vote, but harder for illegal voters to vote.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is on record as stating that states may enact common sense election reforms to prevent election fraud as long as the reforms are non-discriminatory.
I'll write more on the subject later.
Steve Wolverton
Parkersburg