I am a long time newspaper reader. I have always considered the “town” newspapers close to worthless. They have no opinion and are an assembly of press releases from the synagogue and the town.
Yours is quite a pleasant surprise, the articles are informative and well written and important to read.
Recently, I read your Opinion concerning the post office. I think that you should consider the other side.
Elections are too often decided by a handful of votes. They are becoming very close. The Republican point of view, is that mailing out ballots en mass, to everyone, including the dead, children, dogs and cats, subverts the system.
If the voter needs an absentee ballot, then no problem. He has to make an effort to vote. Unfortunately, some Democrats, go thru low-income neighborhoods, and “HELP” voters with the filling out and mailing to the disadvantage of the other candidate. This is not fiction, it has happened (Paterson N.J.).
With regard to the Post Office, it has been in trouble for decades.
Another 50 million pieces in a day or two, is not even a dent in their daily load. Nothing moves fast in the Post Office, $25 billion can’t be put into action in a year, let alone a month or two. It just doesn’t happen.
Think of appropriating $25 billion to change the shoes on all Army personnel in two months. It would never happen, the vote by Congress was just theater.
The real hang-up is going to be in counting the ballots. It took nine weeks to certify Maloney, how do you think the counting will take with 80 million ballots?
Do you remember the hanging chad in Florida? This promises to be worse. We may not know the outcome until December, and the Supreme Court is sure to be involved.
Cary Ratner
East Hills
