Election hullabaloo

Mike Masterson said, “In light of the tabulation mess our country continues to endure in this November’s presidential election, the need for a trustworthy system of honestly and accurately counting our legitimate votes is crucial if we hope to maintain faith in the process.”

Then he tells us the mainstream media isn’t paying attention to Patrick M. Byrne, former CEO of Overstock. com, his advanced university degrees from prestigious institutions, or his claim that there were tactics used to “illicitly count specific battleground states” using “programming of the controversial Dominion voting machines.”

Enter Christopher Krebs, who two years ago President Trump put in charge of the new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. After calling the 2020 election “the most secure in American history,” he was promptly fired by Trump. Krebs subsequently named the intelligence community, the Department of Defense, the FBI and his team as working in support of state and local elections to make them as secure as they have ever been.

Masterson insults the work of the above-named federal agencies. He insults the election workers and officials who have certified their election results. He insults the courts which have listened to and judged the Trump campaign’s many suits. He insults the election workers and officials in all of the states because, if we are to accept that there was a “tabulation mess” in some states, then why not all? What might we find were we to go back and recount all of the states?

If you were an investigative journalist, Mr. Masterson, would you exhaustively evaluate the computer systems and programs Mr. Byrne says he used, and all of his data and its sources? And his employees? Before you reach a conclusion?

If anyone else is disturbed by the attempted interference in this election by Patrick Byrne, who is not in any part of government, quit patronizing Overstock.com, because he is most certainly profiting from it.

SUSAN SNELL Farmington