Letter to the Editor: Will the upcoming election be fair?

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Dear Fellow Citizens,

I am writing to ask what you are doing to ensure that this November’s election will be a fair and secure one. I am deeply concerned with reports that the US Postal Service is being defunded, with carriers prevented from doing their jobs as in the past, many senior officials being fired, and sorting machines and post office boxes being removed in advance of the election. Our president has admitted that this is an attempt to prevent citizens from voting by mail. This despite the fact that the president himself votes by mail! In addition to this problem, funds for electoral security are being held up in the Senate. I find it unimaginable that anyone would oppose funding for electoral security after the events of the 2016 election. I am imploring you to do all you can to make sure that the upcoming election is protected from being undermined or stolen. The future of our democracy is at stake- any outcome other than a clear, transparent, universally accepted one will certainly perpetuate dirty dealings in elections to come.

Henry Washburn
New Sharon

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  1. Scott even if Trump is all the things you claim, which I don’t believe half of what he is accusing of should we vote for a obviously mentally impaired Biden? What about Harris who’s parents aren’t Americans and I haven’t been able to find proof she was born in America. So she isn’t even capable of being President if that is the case which leaves us with Nancy Pelosi and her fancy ice cream to be the President shortly after January if Trump doesn’t win in November. I will assume you are ok with the woman that told people to eat ice cream instead of going back to work when she refused to convene congress after crona hit. Also she is the same woman that went on break instead of working across the aisle to pass the last crona relief bill and then had a melt down when Trump signed his executive orders after warning them for more than a week that is what he would do. The hypocrisy is alive and well on the left right now and that is exactly why Trump was voted in his first term and they haven’t done much to help themselves since 2018 with all the wasteful spending on trials and impeachment’s that got them nowhere. Is Trump perfect NO he is FAR from perfect but again he is the better candidate of the two !!! I will stick with the guy that doesn’t want to infringe on any of my rights let alone force me too buy some joke of a healthcare system like the last administration did. Trump 2020 !!!!

  2. Scott,
    ” my side good, their side bad”

    Yes Trump says that.
    Are you seriously saying the other side doesn’t do that?
    We Have,,The Clintons,,,The Bidens, that’s enough right there.

    What’s the difference besides the facts you “choose”.

    Orange Man Bad,
    Orange Lady Bad Too.

    I’m not even sticking up for Trump.
    I’m saying THEY ALL DO IT!!
    You know this, you just Hate Trump bad enough to make you misbehave..

    C’MON MAN!!
    Step Away From The Weapon.

    Everything Is Beautiful.

  3. Scott Asks,
    “Please at least consider that Trump may be a con man,”

    Ok Scott that’s fair, Lets make a deal!

    I’ll ask you to please Please consider that Biden may be another corrupt old Democrat and Kamala Harris only aspires to be the same thing.

    I would say it’s all true about all of them.
    But you don’t say that.

    You’d have done credibility if you EVER criticized a Democrat.
    You HONESTLY sound like a CNN employee who wants to keep their job.
    Or just another Partisan Political College Professor.
    Both very large groups so there’s safety in numbers.
    CMON MAN!!
    Think for yourself.

    Good Luck Preaching To The Choir In Your “Classes”.

    Everything Is Beautiful.

  4. This is too good to pass up!! Professor Erb says that i am am guilty of “argumentum ad hominem”. I had
    to look that one up (no Phd in my name). It means “the speaker attacks the character, motive, or other
    attribute of the other person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument
    itself”. Ok. Let’s see who really does this!! I spent about 30 minutes reading back thru some recent news
    and opinion articles on the Bulldog. I found 3 that had alot of feed back. I will use SE as abbreviation for
    Scott and MD for me. First article “RSU9 board approves district wide Hybrid learning”. This had 95 total
    responses, 11 from SE and 0 from MD. In his 11 responses SE wrote the following words/phrases to the
    other folks who had differing opinions. “misguided”, “so wrong”, “misinformed”, “unreasonabe”, “in denial”
    “dancing and weaving”, “your little world of denial”, “fancy rhetoric and weird claims”, “you’re objectively
    wrong”, “too stubborn to admit”, “bobbing and weaving”, “saying nothing of import”, “alternate theories”,
    and my #1 pick “you have closed your eyes, you think you’re right and you’re so stubborn that you’ll
    ignore reality in order to hold on to that delusion”. He wrote all those things in 11 postings on that one
    Bulldog article. I wrote nothing. In the 2nd article “Executive Orders and the future of Social Security”
    SE had 3 postings, MD had 0. In this article, SE had 8 and i have 6 including this one, but one of mine
    is a repost and one is a spelling correction, -2 =4. Total postings in the 3 recent articles, SE 22, MD 4.
    Who is “argumentum ad hominem” ??? Scott, this is too easy. Let me use a catch phrase of your hero,
    “Come on Man”

  5. Mike, I’m talking about your rejection of the article about New Jersey, you simply said the author wrote for liberal papers so you didn’t take him seriously. That was the ad hominem argument. I was not saying you were using it on me.

    I appreciate that you take my posts so seriously. But a good discussion would be better than playing silly games. I don’t see any actual response to anything of content.

  6. While everyone here says voting in person with an I’d is the best way, help me find a place where that happens in Maine. I have lived in Maine since 2011 and I have never been asked to prove who I am. When I lived in Maryland, I needed to show my voter ID card but it had no picture and no one asked me to validate my signature on the card. In Massachusetts, my experience was the same as in Maine. I have been voting since 1985 and I have never been asked to prove I am who I say I am.
    Why do people in this space praise something that does not exist in Maine? There are many ways to cheat any system.
    It seems Republicans scream the most about fraud but the NC house election in 2018 was invalidated because of fraud and it was a republican who had benefitted from the fraud(he was not involved but a campaign worker, with past convictions for fraud was)
    To me, the biggest threat to election security is Russia. All US government intelligence agencies say the same. The Senate said the same this week in a Bi-partisan report. Only the current President denies this. Maybe the mail in/absentee noise is cover so Putin can meddle again.
    Also, please tell me what towns in Maine check IDs at the poling place. I always bring my license and it collects dust.

  7. Steve I carry my ID to the polls for the sole purpose of verifying who I am incase they say I have already voted that day, not that I’ve ever needed too. I do know some people that have had that problem around here. I’m not familiar with the 2018 case you are talking about but I am aware of Patterson NJ and the 4 Democrats that have been arrested and they are now having to deal with a redo and hopefully it’s not by mass mailers. As for Russia I would like a link to read that report because I haven’t seen that news story anywhere yet. I don’t remember the President denying any Russia involvement in the election he has however stuck to the fact that he had no collusion with them and to date there is zero proof he had any connection. Yes some of his people had some connection for various things but I don’t remember any of them being arrested for actual election shenanigans.
    I honestly believe our biggest threat to our “democracy” aka constitutional republic is the media and the power hungry criminals that have been so very vocal about how a man with no political experience until 4 yrs ago is the sole cause of every problem in this country that are actually decades old issues. Ya know like the guy that has been in politics for nearly 50 years and all of a sudden knows how to fix all our problems we just have to vote him in as President so he can get it done. Cmon man !!!! If you don’t vote for me you aint black. Or you know, you know the thing I can’t remember. I won’t start on his kid or the #metoo allegations that were ignored by the same people that protested the current administration over a weak allegation compared to a very specific recollection of what happened to the woman. I will stick with the guy that shows the American people daily (the ones that want to pay attention) how much corruption is in our government yet we aren’t the “woke” ones.

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