Letter: United States’ elections are in great jeopardy

Russia and other hostile governments are successfully executing cyber and intelligence warfare.

United States’ elections
are in great jeopardy

Our constitutional democratic republic is hanging by a thread, as we slip into autocracy and oligarchy. It is likely that we have already experienced our last reasonably free and fair election.

Regardless of whether or not President Trump is impeached or removed from office, our elections are in great jeopardy. The GOP continues its aggressive long-running voter-suppression campaign, and eight states refuse to use paper ballots that are resistant to tampering.

Russia and other hostile governments are successfully executing cyber and intelligence warfare on our election system. Worst of all, our president is running Vladimir Putin’s agenda — he denies that Russia attacked the 2016 election, he is doing nothing to prevent future attacks and he is attacking our own 17 intelligence agencies, which concluded that Russia attacked the 2016 election. That’s the short list.

Unless we vote in massive numbers in November 2020, we risk losing our republic.

Grace Clark
Livermore

 

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