Evaluate the evidence

Thank you, Mr. Horstman, for your letter offering information about the doubts some people have with regard to the 2020 election. Was there fraud or not? We don't really know, but I'm bothered by the fact that no court, including the Supreme Court, has been willing to even look at and evaluate the evidence.

I would like to remind everybody that four years and millions of dollars were spent on trying to de-legitimatize the 2016 election. What's different now? People who want to know the facts about the current election are told to shut up and move along. Just accept whatever you are told.

Really? That does not bode well for future elections. Is it too much to ask that some of the sworn affidavits be looked at and evaluated? A large number of voters will never trust that a future election is fair. People need to know that their vote really counts.

I really don't expect that what I'm suggesting will ever happen, but I believe our system of government. which incidentally is a constitutional republic, will be diminished if nothing is done to assure the American people that our elections are fair.

I believe it was Ben Franklin who replied when asked what kind of government the founding fathers had given us, he replied; "a Republic, if you can keep it." I hope we can. But our country is more divided now than I can ever remember.

Hazel Kaspari

Elgin