Post office shouldn’t be a political pawn

Donald Trump has made no secret of why he does not want widespread mail-in voting. In March he said of a funding proposal, “They had things, levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” And recently he said of the Postal Service, “They don’t have the money to do universal mail-in voting. So therefore they can’t do it.”

Then he had his hand-picked crony Louis DeJoy dismantling the Postal Service from within. But is this illegal?

To best understand it, consider the cybercrime known as distributed denial of service, or DDoS. It’s obviously legal to access a public website, but if you have a sufficiently large number of computers do so simultaneously, that’s a crime. The difference is intent. DDoS intends to overwhelm and prevent the website from functioning.

If they are intentionally preventing the Postal Service from performing its function, Trump and DeJoy would be doing the same thing. But this is not a website, this is a constitutionally mandated part of our federal government.

Daniel Braden

Lower Saucon Township

ease the burden on the U.S. Postal Service in Pennsylvania.

If you know by then who you’re voting for, there’s really no reason not to send it back immediately (it’s not like waiting for the last day to pay your taxes). Also, legislators should consider a deposit box at each polling location where people can simply deposit their “mail-in” ballots directly.

Since polling places are usually convenient to voters in their districts, use a deposit box, somewhat isolated but overseen by officials so there is no line of any extent. Just a couple of suggestions to avoid a compromise of your precious vote.

Ron Pizarie

East Allen Township

their children can play this fall knowing this threat exists.

No sports activity is worth risking the life of a child.

Sharon Holden

South Whitehall Township