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If anyone is unsure about the security and honesty of these presidential elections, then they haven’t been involved as an election judge or worked for their city or state’s election departments. I have. And I can attest to the honesty and the extent to which state and local governments go to ensure true election results. I am insulted by the accusations that the 2020 and the 2024 were and will be manipulated and false. Those accusations are leveled by those with no experience or involvement with their state’s process. And they denigrate the earnestness and sincerity with which these sometimes humble Americans are giving of their time and energy to ensure free and fair elections. I charge those people to get involved and see for themselves. And then tell me how unfair their elections are.
Mary K. Willert, Minneapolis
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The flawed two-party system is responsible for a jaded electorate, as described in the Nov. 3 article “The fears and frets of voters along Hwy. 61.” Omitted from the article is any mention of the fact that millions voted outside the duopoly for third parties like the Greens or Libertarians. Surely the reporter could have located at least one third-party voter’s viewpoint.
Voting for Trump, an unqualified narcissist, was out of the question. Voting for Harris was a vote for the continuation of her promise to keep arming an apartheid state, enabling ethnic cleansing and war crimes — also out of the question. If genocide (labeled as such by international law) is not a red line for you, you have completely lost your humanity.
As a Green, I stand outside the toxic red MAGA/blue MAGA dichotomy, with all their hate spewing exaggerations such as Trump’s plan to install a fascist dictatorship, as if every state’s police force and all branches of the U.S. military would allow that. On the other side, we have the crazed exaggeration that Harris is a Marxist, ignoring the fact that there are several communist parties in the U.S., none of which she has membership in (they would never have her).