U.S. needs electronic voting ASAP

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Bronx: The current absentee ballot process is archaic and inefficient. It disenfranchises voters. Given our technology, voters should be able to apply for an absentee ballot online and receive approval in under a minute. Thereafter, on a date prior to the election, absentee voters could log in to the Board of Elections and complete their ballot online. A scannable ballot can be generated and sent electronically to the Board of Elections. When the barcoded ballot is printed by staff at the BOE, a message confirming receipt of the ballot could be sent to the voter. The printed ballots at BOE serve as a check and balance. For those voters who are not technologically proficient, a barcoded mail-in ballot can serve as a backup.

The governor recently signed legislation permitting requests for an absentee ballot by email or an electronic transmittal system. State Sens. Robert Jackson and Zellnor Myrie have put forward additional legislation expanding the scope of electronic absentee voting. Their bills are a start, but need to go further. We need legislation and funding from government to create, test and implement a secure electronic transmittal system that can be used for absentee ballots in the November election. In the coming years, such a system should be expanded beyond absentee ballots. We do our personal banking online. There is no reason we shouldn’t be able to vote online.

Dan Padernacht, candidate for City Council

Trump v. elders

Roseland, N.J.: By nominating an incompetent head of the U.S. Postal Service and then defunding it, President Trump has directly attacked the ability to vote by mail for American seniors, as well as others who need to vote by mail, as he himself did and will do. We are a medically compromised population, and in this pandemic we need to vote by mail to exert our constitutional right. Does he seriously expect us to wait in lines at the polls, sometimes for hours? His shameful lack of concern is a disgrace and he and the government should be sued by AARP and other affected groups. Is this part of his plan to make America great again? It is total manipulation of the system! God help our citizens and our country!

Arlene Dolce

Gourd

Bronx: For the life of me I don’t understand why every sane citizen of this country is not in an uproar over the pumpkin POTUS’ perverse view of how voting should take place in the midst of a pandemic. Studies have repeatedly shown there is negligible fraud involved in mail-in voting. This has been reaffirmed by virtually every state. Why is it that when

someone proposes gun safety legislation, Americans scream about their constitutional rights, but we are not as outraged at having our right to vote compromised by the pumpkin POTUS? Come on, people. Stand up. Make some noise, and stop the destruction of our democracy.

Double digits

Spring Glen, N.Y.: Donald, keep your grubby little hands off the Post Office!

Nancy D. Bennett

Too dark

Bronx: If there were ever a time to eliminate the timechange in November, it is in this God-awful calendar year of 2020. We have enough depression-inducing issues to face this autumn and winter without adding shorter days to the mix. Maria Bonsanti

Nuke ‘em

Stephen Markbreit

Vestal, N.Y.: Nuclear plants provide a steady baseline of electricity. Natural gas is an obvious replacement source of energy. If neither option works then cancel your utility services for power and light. Don’t take a bus, subway or car service. However, I fully agree with demandside energy reduction by improving energy efficiency. Our nation needs energy.

Wind and solar are not feasible alternatives yet.

Michael Heikkila

Booking

Brunswick, N.J.: Democrats are in bad shape to have Cory Booker to speak at the convention. He never did anything for Jersey.

Edward Jurewicz

Bugged

Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: To Voicer R. Pozzi: Why would you buy hearing aids from Walmart and then be surprised to find insects inside?

Gabe Pompe

Bogey man

Stillwater Lakes, Pa.: I join fellow Voicer Paul Bacon in passing along my prayers and condolences to the Trump family for the loss of the president’s brother Robert. Now back to the golf course. FORE!

William T. Bredin

Check yourself

Flushing: Due to COVID-19, men may also be unsure if it’s safe to go to their health care provider’s office. But routine care, like getting checked for colon cancer, is too important to skip. The Cancer Services Program (CSP) of Queens wants men ages 50 and older to know that the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit is a yearly colon cancer screening that can be done quickly, easily and safely at home. If the FIT kit shows something abnormal, the health care provider will order a colonoscopy to find out if there is or isn’t cancer. For men age 50 and older that don’t have insurance, the CSP can provide free kits. The CSP can also cover the colonoscopy, if it’s needed, and help get access to treatment. Call your health care provider or the CSP of Queens at (718) 670-1561 to get more information. Jacqueline Xouris

clinical director CSP of Queens, New YorkPresbyterian Queens

Old school

Manhattan: When schools are shown in the papers and on TV as being ready to resume classroom learning, the schools pictured are all new and clean. What is being done to the schools that are at least 50 years old, that have 50 years of dirt and only two or three lavatories for all the teachers and other personnel in the school? That’s many of them. Marilyn Levin

Failing grade

Bronx: Hey, de Blasio: NYC Department of Education school employees are not doctors or nurses. They were not hired to be babysitters or work under life-threatening conditions. Schools reopening is a death sentence. Being killed before a firing squad would be more merciful.

Jolinda Celentano

Bad call

Manhattan: To open schools, we need quick testing with immediate results for kids and adults like NBA players and politicians get. Why do they get it and we can’t?

Edward Drossman

Monumental

Ledyard, Conn.: Interesting. President Trump donates $100,000 to the National Park Service specifically to “repair and restore” national monuments. I wonder if some is going toward work on Mount Rushmore, on which he wants his face added.

Usual suspects

Oakland, N.J.: Congress should commission a second Mount Rushmore. My nominees are Richard Nixon, Jefferson Davis, Charles Manson and Trump.

Double trouble

Nutley, N.J.: I pray every night to help us through this disaster — the pandemic and Trump’s ineptness.

Elaine Bucino

While we’re at it

SHUTTERSTOCK

Lisa Allen

Bob Shwalb

Manhattan: In addition to a vaccine for COVID-19, we also need one to combat ignorance and restore common sense to this country.

Phoebe Celentano