Selle’s wrong — voter fraud can and has happened
Columnist Charles Selle appears to have an issue with individuals’ frustrations about our open border crisis. I found the comments from his detractors were quite eloquent and on the mark. His attempt to minimize them does not diminish their truth.
“Surely that was a one-off in the annals of true Americans committing felony vote fraud,” he wrote. I had to reread this one a couple of times to determine if this was an attempt at sarcasm. Then I noticed “true” inserted before “Americans” and understood that he would get to control the definition of this.
It’s not about winning elections by wide margins across the board, it’s just about winning in the highly contested battleground areas by just enough. Consider Lyndon Johnson’s U.S. senatorial win in Texas in 1948 and check out the “Box 13 scandal.”
Other elections involving “true Americans” include Jim Jones busing in his cult members to vote for George Moscone in the 1975 San Francisco mayoral election. Al Franken may very well have been an undeserving winner in his 2008 U.S. Senate run against Coleman in Minnesota.
This influx of “migrants” puts elections in unchartered territory. They replace those that have fled states with failed policies thus allowing those states to maintain their congressional firepower. Selle’s statement that it is a lie to say that they would participate in the election process is false in that he cannot predict the future.
And given the emergence of no identification required to vote, vote by mail, drop-off ballot boxes and ballot harvesting of absentee ballots, what could possibly go wrong?
Dave Schwartz, Naperville
Proposed hike in price of stamps make me want to scream
When I read the news that our U.S. Postal Service has filed notice with its regulators to increase prices on first-class “forever” stamps from 68 cents to 73 cents, I wanted to scream.
Stamp prices have soared 36% since 2019. If you have observed the improved postal service, I am delighted for you. To commemorate this latest postal rate increase, I recommend the next forever stamp be “The Scream” by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
Joseph P. Drago, Naperville
Why is there outrage over Gaza and not over Ukraine?
Many are asking Israel to do a cease fire in Gaza. Israel was attacked by people in Gaza and is responding in kind.
It’s not unlike what is happening in Ukraine, which never attacked Russia yet Russia is destroying Ukraine by destroying hospitals with patients in them, schools with children in them and homes occupied by people — all without warnings. Thus, thousands of innocent Ukranians being killed.
Why are these people and organizations asking Israel for a cease fire in Gaza and not asking Russia to cease its attacks on the Ukrainians?
There should be international outrage relative to this double standard of not leaning on Vladimer Putin to stop killing Ukranians. The world’s priorities need to be reset to treat like situations in an equal manner.
Steven P. Collins, Naperville
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