{"id":113932,"date":"2020-10-06T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=113932"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:02:43","slug":"letters-mail-in-voting-should-replace-poll-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=113932","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS: Mail-in voting should replace poll sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting by mail should replace voting at the polls in its entirety.&nbsp; The two institutions that can definitely be trusted are the county Boards of Elections and the United States Postal Service.&nbsp; The money saved by eliminating the need for poll workers could be used to offer free postage on the envelopes used to vote by mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The person voting would also have more time to consider who they are voting for and would not be confined to the hours of the polling place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would also prevent unwanted entry to schools and churches from anyone trying to harm someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the voter would not be harassed by someone trying to place unsolicited campaign literature into their hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The additional revenue would boost the Postal Service and perhaps keep it afloat until we, as a country, are able to vote online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting by mail would solve the registered voter problem and guarantee safe passage of the ballots to county Boards of Elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It might even prevent further spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Joe Bialek, Cleveland, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Voting by mail should replace voting at the polls in its entirety.&nbsp; The two institutions that can definitely be trusted are the county Boards of Elections and the United States Postal Service.&nbsp; The money saved by eliminating the need for poll workers could be used to offer free postage on the envelopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678,23808],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-tDC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor.gif?fit=342%2C248&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}