Editor’s Note: Franklin County Democratic Central Committee member Alan Bell submitted the following Letter to the Editor about election procedures for publication in a local newspaper. We believe his words bear repeating here. 

Letter to the Editor:

James Madison expressed this attitude in Federalist #10: “…instability, injustice, and confusion …have in truth been the mortal disease under which popular governments everywhere perished…”.  It appears that our democracy/constitutional republic (whichever title you choose) in the United States is suffering from that type of disease.  

After the last national election, we saw many citizens ignoring the law and refusing to accept valid election results and then many of the 50 states scrambled to change their election procedures in order to suit their own prejudices.  

If we are truly the UNITED States of America, it seems very reasonable that the entire country should have the very same set of election rules and regulations for voting qualifications and vote tabulation that are used for determining the winners of federal offices.  Even the Electoral College finds it confusing when states have a different system for assigning the Electoral College votes. 

It is time for the USA to have a uniform election and voting procedure and be truly UNITED.

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