(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

This letter is in answer to the opinion piece in the Sunday, July 27, newspaper titled “Push back on efforts to change voting,” and the misleading disinformation it contains.

It is entirely legal for Trump’s Department of Justice to establish a centralized database of personal information solely for purging illegal immigrants from voter rolls and deporting them. The nine states mentioned in the piece have a recent history of registering illegal immigrants to vote to sway elections in the Democratic Party candidate’s favor. The U.S. Constitution grants only U.S. citizens the right to vote as stated by Amendments XV, XIX, XXIV and XXVI.

Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship at the time of registration and banning systems which rely on bar codes or QR codes and imposing strict deadlines on mail-in ballots is something everyone should support to keep illegal ballots from being cast and preventing other election fraud. Whether the president has this authority will likely be decided in the courts.

The Electoral College concept our founding fathers wrote into the U.S. Constitution protects smaller populated states from being dominated by states with larger populations. No tyranny over the minority by the majority. May I remind said author Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2024?

Thankfully, Republicans defeated the misnamed “Right to Vote Act,” which would have made the Biden era easing of restrictions on voting, due to covid, permanent. With no voter IDs, no signature verification, unrestricted mail-in voting, with no chain of ballot custody, voters allowed to vote in any polling place, or in multiple locales, election fraud would sky rocket.

Millions of illegals would be voting, canceling the legal votes of hard-working Americans.

Without strict deadlines for mail-in ballots, ballots would continue coming in for days, weeks or months. It could require months to determine an election’s outcome.

Had the “Right to Vote Act” become law, we would never have another fair election in this country. The 2020 election fraud, which is still being investigated, would pale in comparison to future election fraud.

The nine or so blue states mentioned need federal oversight of their elections, with poll watchers representing both parties present, during the casting and tallying of ballots, ensuring the elections’ integrity.

Ideally voting, with voter ID, should be easy, but cheating impossible. Our country requires a healthy two-party system, not a one-party dictatorship, run by Democrats.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg