No tributes to treason

Dear Editor,

Confederate monuments that include Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, John Bell Hood, James Longstreet, George Pickett and many more who fought against the United States are tributes to treasonous despots who exacted dominion over African Americans. Their right place in the text of American history is now being exacted as it is long overdue that their sins against humanity are at the fore.

The complaining party at the bar is that of civilization, and more importantly, black citizens. Seldom, if ever, has a county to war to protect the rights of other people as was the impetus of the Civil War. For those who say, they were my ancestors, call their deeds out as the indignations they are. The Germans did this when they found out that those who ran the death camps were their ancestors.

Never be confused as to whether these people were friend or foe. They were neither. They were traitors of the United States of America leaving the lesson that all men are free from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

One last note. Even Robert E. Lee did not champion the restoration of the confederacy or immortalizing himself with monuments.

Michael R. Olson,

Warren

Voting fraud is real

Dear Editor,

Contrary to the letter on voter fraud (July 9), in an April press release, violations of voter laws are noted. The press release was titled “Judicial Watch Sues to Force Pennsylvania to Clean Its Voter Rolls, Alleges Pennsylvania Has over 800,000 Inactive Voters on Rolls.” Per the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Judicial Watch’s analysis of voter registration data in three counties shows almost no names were removed under the act procedures for identifying and updating the registrations of those who have moved. The Trump and Judicial Watch lawsuits are an effort to have clean, honest, fair, uncontested elections in the future, no matter who wins.

According to data the State certified to the Election Assistance Commission, in the most recent two-year reporting period: Bucks, Chester, and Delaware counties with 1,217,000 registrants removed only 17 names from voter rolls under rules to identify those voters who have moved. Judicial Watch also argues that there are an abnormally high percentage of registrations compared to the population over 18 years of age in those counties.

Allegheny County removed 69,000 inactive voters at Judicial Watch’s action to avoid being sued.

We know there are problems in Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Colorado. Through a Supreme Court ruling from a Judicial Watch lawsuit, Ohio is cleaning up its rolls. Los Angeles is removing 1.6 million inactive names. Kentucky has begun to clean hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from their rolls.

Quoting Judicial Watch, “Despite successful litigation by Judicial Watch to bring counties and states into compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, voter registration lists across the country remain significantly out of date. Judicial Watch’s 2019 study found 378 counties nationwide that had more voter registrations than citizens old enough to vote, i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%. These 378 counties combined had about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark.”

Don’t believe the Democratic drivel that all is well with voting and the voter rolls in the U.S. Dirty voter rolls lead to dirty elections. Mail-in voting is the most susceptible to fraud. I hope the act is 100% complied with here in Warren County. In my opinion, nearly all votes should be cast in person at voting sites with voters using current pictured ID.

Daniel Reiff,

Warren