Rely on Verifiable Facts

To the Editor:

Cindy Rodibaugh’s at it again. In her latest letter she once again trades factual analysis for theatrical outrage, using a grab-bag of logical fallacies and misinformation in an effort to be duplicitious in undermining faith in our election systems.

Ms. Rodibaugh relies on a classic faulty generalization by citing the 2020 prosecution of Zul Mohamed in Carrollton, Texas. In her eyes, a candidate who gets arrested, prosecuted, and convicted for mail-in ballot fraud somehow proves the system doesn’t work. In reality, it proves the exact opposite: law enforcement protocols and security checks caught the fraud, tracked the suspect, and secured a conviction. Claiming that a system failing to catch crime is proven by a case where it caught the crime is a bizarre self-own.

Then, she commits a false equivalence by conflating outdated voter rolls with fraudulent votes. Updating rolls is routine, ongoing paperwork required by law. An uncleaned name on a list is not an illegally cast ballot, any more than having an expired driver license in your desk drawer means someone is driving your car. Physical paper ballots and post-election audits in Texas ensure actual votes are verified.

Finally, she falls back on an ad hominem attack against the League of Women Voters. Rather than addressing their actual work, she gets spooked by buzzwords like “social justice” to declare a non-partisan organization “duplicitous.” You just can’t make this stuff up.

If we want actual election integrity, we should rely on verifiable facts, not conspiracy theories that vilify the local poll workers and county officials working to keeping our elections secure and fair.

Eric Green La Grange