Know-nothings alive and well

Now that the election is over, I have some comments about an Oct. 24 article in which the reporter described all of the ways a voter could mismark a ballot: circles, crosses, check marks, underlines and on and on. Since Washington has a “voter intent” law, election workers spend a great deal of time trying to determine what the voter meant.

I do realize that current political correctness requires us to believe that anyone who is breathing has the right to vote, but should our officials be elected by people too stupid to follow simple instructions?

A long time ago, there were tests for voting. They were misused to deny minorities the vote. So, with typical overreaction, we threw out the baby with the bath water.

Of course, the politicians think it’s great. The less the voters know, the easier they are to fool. How else to explain that one of the leading candidates says evolution is an idea dreamed up by Satan? That the Earth is only 6,000 years old? That a woman’s right to her body is the same as slavery?

The know-nothing party is alive and well. And they want “everyone” to vote.

Larry Blanchard

Spokane Valley