To the editor: The case now pending earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket may require that mail-in ballots be acquired by election day to be legitimate and counted (“Californians might have to mail ballots early as Supreme Court docket indicators help for brand spanking new election day deadline,” March 23).
Proscribing the states’ guidelines of when mail-in ballots may be counted might sound innocuous sufficient at first blush, however is in actuality another facet of President Trump and the GOP’s marketing campaign to limit voting. Trump has already pushed the idea that voting restrictions (and thus fewer voters) will make it extra probably that Republicans will prevail in elections. Working People are typically much less in a position to take break day to go to the polls in individual on election day, and due to this fact extra more likely to vote by mail. Many of those working People are at present annoyed with the GOP and due to this fact extra more likely to help Democrats.
Trump’s specious theories about fraud being inherent in mail-in voting have been proven to be nearly completely false. One other certainly one of Trump’s options to a non-existent drawback.
This case searching for to limit mail-in voting is admittedly another harmful prong within the total Republican effort to restrict the voters.
Ernest S. Gould, Los Angeles
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To the editor: So, Supreme Court docket Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. expressed issues that state legal guidelines permitting mail-in ballots to be counted after election day so long as they had been postmarked on or earlier than election day one way or the other taint the election course of.
I simply paid my federal and state earnings taxes for 2025, in addition to my property tax invoice for 2025-26. In every case, the federal government entity (federal, state and county) permits fee by mail so long as the fee envelope is postmarked on or earlier than the required due date.
Neither justice cited the violation of any federal statute or constitutional provision in help of his remarks. Apparently, they every subscribe to the Trump philosophy of constructing selections primarily based solely on intestine intuition, moderately than a factual evaluation of related historical past or case legislation.
Noel Johnson, Glendale
