Right to vote should not be obscured

I am highly concerned by the number of bills recently introduced by the Michigan Republican legislature, which are intended to limit our voting rights.

This includes the HCR 0005, which is intended to override HR 1 should it pass.

Voting is one of the rights that makes our democracy so strong. Any attempts to disenfranchise voters should be considered unconstitutional.

I am asking Gov. Whitmer, Sen. McMorrow and Rep. Tisdel to consider their constituents’ rights to have their voices heard and to not have their voting rights infringed on. I urge them to vote no on any and all bills and resolutions that enhance the lies around the 2020 election. They must Vote no on any and all bills set to disenfranchise the citizens of the State of Michigan.

Our right to vote should not be obscured by the fear invited by one party determined to have power no matter the damage that is done.

Whitni Jones

Rochester Hills

Americans must use their brains

As a child, I used to wonder how Hitler was able to sway the millions he did. No longer.

Not having watched otherwise educated, ostensibly intelligent people run wholeheartedly after patently absurd nonsense and seeing many of the same people advocate the inversion of democracy, cheering on rioting, looting, attacks on police and destruction of property, calling racism reform, and proudly confusing their gullible woke Maoism progressive liberalism and inane internet searches for ‘research,’ all as violence against those labeled ‘enemies’ escalates.

It’s time to put a firm foot down and quash this nonsense by rejecting HR1 for starters. Doing away with free speech or the Senate’s 175-year tradition of the filibuster is a solution only to the problem of free thinking.

This time, honest legislators need to use the leverage they have and not sit on their hands as usual watching this nation descend into lawless chaos.

If people have election laws respected, and if legislators and bureaucrats use their position to govern effectively and vote against this onrushing attack on speech, dissent, legal process and open government, we will never have to labor under totalitarian governance again.

They have no moral position to lecture us after giving aid to insurrection and sedition, proved themselves foes to science by ignoring and falsifying it, and seem about to declare war on anyone who loves the equal opportunity, freedoms and color-blind governmental system so many fought and died protecting.

James Rayis

Birmingham