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There has been a lot of talk about the need for voting by mail, driven by fear that we’ll be dealing with the coronavirus many months from now. A recent Letter to the Editor asked us to just look at the recent Wisconsin election.This is a sad comparison, taking an example of an election being held in the middle of the virus pandemic.

No one can say for sure what things will be like in November, but anyone with common sense knows that the COVID-19 tragedy will not be the same now. Or the same as in a week from now. Take a look at how much things change from week to week. As of today we see the infection curves flattening and dropping, many hospitals across the country, including hot spots like New York have excess beds and ventilators. A variety of treatments are showing promise in their studies and nearly a dozen immunizations are in testing.

Given all these positive signs, the likelihood that the virus will be an issue come election day is extremely remote.

If that is so, why are the liberals pushing for vote by mail?

The answer is obvious. This form of voting makes voter fraud easier. If you need proof, simply Google “white house voter fraud info”, click the first entry which will take you a sampling of voter fraud cases from across the country, even here in Minnesota.

What’s striking about these cases (Most have been through the courts and are a matter of other public records) is that most of these frauds involve absentee ballots . . . vote by mail.

As if voter fraud weren’t enough, vote by mail also discourages voting simply by making it difficult to mail the ballot. That was the recent experience in our household.

Having spent 40 years designing mailing pieces, I know something about getting results by mail. It is well established that to get the best response (most votes), the mailer needs to make it easy for a person to respond.

The ballots received in the mail last March were so poorly designed that you could not fit the ballot into envelope No. 1, and this envelope did not easily fit into the return mailing envelope. Either one of these issues would discourage mailing in a ballot. Taken together, who knows how many discouraged voters said “Forget it?”

This provides another way to hide voter fraud, send conservatives the “difficult to use” mail in ballot and send the liberals the mail in ballot in which everything fits together conveniently.

If you thought finding a few thousand Al Franken votes in the back of a car trunk just in time to swing the recount was bad, just wait until suddenly a multitude of “found” ballots start showing up in mail facilities around the state and around the nation.

Liberal democrats are playing on our coronavirus fears to enact a voting system that makes it easier for them to manipulate the vote in so many ways. Don’t fall for it.

Peter Wuebker

Austin, MN