To the editor: As employees author Kevin Rector reported, many Republican voters have misplaced belief within the electoral course of, with 55% “not assured” in native elections (“Democratic voters confident California election is secure, Republicans less so, poll finds,” June 2). Sadly, their distrust of election officers is misplaced; it ought to as a substitute be directed at President Trump.
Whereas many Republicans proceed to imagine Trump’s repeated assertions that Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election, and that noncitizen voting is a serious downside, Trump has by no means produced any credible proof that both declare is true. On the contrary, following the 2020 election, Trump’s then-attorney basic, William Barr, stated no proof of voting fraud that would change the 2020 election final result had been discovered.
It must be acknowledged that Trump’s attorneys went to the courts, making quite a few claims about irregularities within the 2020 election, however by no means confirmed any proof of fraud. It also needs to be stored in thoughts that Trump’s former private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, falsely claimed that two Georgia election staff had dedicated poll fraud — a declare repeated by Trump — and that Giuliani lost a large defamation suit filed by the employees.
Given all this (and extra), one has to surprise why so many Republicans nonetheless settle for Trump’s phrase — the phrase of a person responsible of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data to facilitate hush-money funds to a porn actor — moderately than rejecting his unsubstantiated assertions.
David Michels, Encino
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To the editor: To clear up any doubts relating to the integrity of our elections, I counsel the next as a primary act by our new governor-elect: appoint a bipartisan committee to audit the election outcomes and report back to the general public its findings relating to all ballots solid. This might settle the matter clearly and grant credibility to and, hopefully, some unity behind the incoming administration.
Michael Kohn, Hollywood
