Don't assume military always backs GOP

Elsie Zelms is right that it is terrible that any of the 200 votes she referred to should be ignored.

I hope Ms. Zelms was just as indignant when thousands of Blacks were denied their right to vote in Florida, because someone had them on a list of "felons" supplied by the govenor of Texas. Most were registered decent citizens who had the misfortune of having the same or similar names as those on the list.

Maybe she would be angry over the 2004 results in an Ohio precinct, where 680 people were registered and 4,200 voted for Bush. One of the major execs for Diebold that supplied most of the voting machines in Ohio said he would do whatever he could to see George Bush elected. The Secretary of States office in Ohio supplied a fraction of the voting machines per capita for the cities, especially the inner cities, than suburban areas. Some in the inner cities waited hours to vote.

Some had to go to work, pickup their kids from day care, etc. They couldn't wait hours to vote.

I work on a military base, and your assumption that most will vote Republican is not so. Military people, for the most part, are a cross-section of America, and do not vote as a monolith.

No, Ms. Zelms, it isn't voter fraud that we need be so concerned with its election fraud. Less than 100 cases of "voter fraud" have been prosecuted across the country in the last five years. The majority have been about local elections.

@Edit letter writers:Tom Cargill

Inverness