Never Assume

To the Editor:

I am responding to David DeLuca’s letter which appeared in the Aug. 7 edition of the Record. David is a former Chair of the Fayette County Democrat Party.

I appreciate that David recognized the assistance of Republican poll workers during the July 14 Democrat primary run-off elections. However, David was way off base when he assumed that I agreed with the DEM’s push for 100% mail-in ballots. Let me point out that people are standing in line to shop at HEB, Wal-Mart and hundreds of other retail establishments. They are going to restaurants. They are attending “protests” and political memorials. Why, then, would they not be just as safe (or safer) going into their polling location? Keep in mind that early voting dates have been extended and we will have almost three full weeks to vote early: from Oct. 13 through Oct. 30. Stringent safety protocols have been implemented for all polling locations – barriers between the workers and voters; sanitizers and masks will be available; line spacing will be enforced. These are acceptable precautions at HEB where we are buying food. Why are they not enough for a polling location where all we need to do is cast our votes?

Additionally, David claims that the increased potential for voter fraud with mail in ballots is “absurd.” Really? Every day we see reports of hundreds or thousands of rejected, lost, or misdirected mail-in ballots. Ballot harvesting and voter manipulation is a documented fact. David calls me hypocritical for wanting to ensure that our political processes are legal and free of fraud. This is a man who aligns himself with the party that I think is destroying America – our economy, our history, our families, our faiths, and our freedoms. So … who is the hypocrite?

Deborah Frank

La Grange