It will still be safe to help out at the polls

Re “Let’s find people to keep our polls open” (Sept. 13): The letter writer has assumed the Registrar of Voters would be doing the election as in the past. That is not the case. I have been a poll worker for decades and decided I would volunteer again for November. This year, instead of volunteering I was hired at an hourly rate. My discussions with staff indicate numerous changes to safeguard both the public and the poll workers.

It would be wonderful to have people of all ages working the election for this vital democratic process. The minimum age is 16 but there is no maximum age.

Barr needs to crack open a history book

Re “Barr under fire over comparison of virus lock-in to slavery” (Sept. 17): Attorney General William Barr, speaking at Hillsdale College, said, “You know, putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”

I guess the attorney general never heard of the internment of the American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Good thing we weren’t fighting the British. My whole family would have been holed up in a wooden barracks in the Mojave

Biden’s values make choice pretty clear

Contrasting Joe Biden with Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election couldn’t be more clear.

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