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Dear Editor:
So...we're in the middle of a pandemic that's expected to kill 200,000 Americans by Labor Day, and God-knows-how-many by year's end. We have the most important presidential election in my lifetime (73 years) in early November. Most Americans, understandably, want to vote by mail from the security of their own homes. The US Postal Service says they don't think they can handle the increased volume of mailed ballots because they have cut-back on their mail-sorting operation and employee overtime in an effort to balance their budget.
If you were President, what would you do?
Would you increase the USPS operating budget and direct your Postmaster General to make damn sure every ballot mailed gets to where it's counted on time?
Or would you declare there will be no new money for the postal service; they must balance their budget NOW, pandemic or no? And besides, you really don't care for mail/absentee voting as you think it will cost you the election?
There is nothing Donald Trump won't do to be re-elected. He is a cancer on our country.
Jim Bach
Dodgeville, WI