Letters: When ballot information becomes junk mail
When ballot information becomes junk mail
My husband and I sold our Florida property and moved over a year ago. We updated our voting information through the mail with our new address. There is even a box to check that states our new legal address is outside of Florida. The voting office received and updated our address. However, we are still getting correspondence on how to vote and informing us how to request a mail-in ballot. They even sent us a sample ballot.
I went on the voting website and it still states our "Residential" address is in Florida and our "Mailing" address is in Massachusetts. When I click the update information button it eventually brings you to a page that will only allow you to update your address but only if it is within the state of Florida. The page also states your mailing address is also your residential address, which is in Massachusetts. If that was the case we should not be receiving any voting correspondence at all from the State of Florida.
Carol Baer, Pittsfield, MA
Mail-in ballots engages and informs voters
My husband and I were among the thousands of Floridians who voted by mail for the first time in 2020, spurred by the pandemic to exercise our civic responsibility remotely. We planned to vote in person this year, but the arrival of our Aug. 23 primary mail-in ballots several weeks ago gave us an alternative: to study the ballot, research the candidates, and make an educated choice. Our votes are in the mail, our selections made on something more than the sound of a name, and we’ve done it without negotiating long lines and the wilting August heat and humidity. We’ll see the general election through the same way, and then we’ll be asking the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections to sign us up again for the next two general elections. To request a mail-in ballot for the November election, go to www.pbcelections.org., email votebymail@pbcelections.org, or call (561) 626-6200.
J.K. Amerson López, Lake Worth
Abortion vote shows how democracy works
Unlike the hysterical fear mongering "chicken little" response by the left to the High Court's Dobbs decision, constitutional conservatives like myself accept, while personally disagreeing, the decision of the Kansas electorate to allow abortion in their state. That's the way our democracy is supposed to work.
W. Lawrence LeNeve, Lake Park
World must address China's aggression
Who gave Chinese leadership the right to threaten the United States militarily after Speaker of the House Pelosi visit to Taiwan? Is it their ambition and belief that they have the right to occupy Taiwan and make it a part of their sovereignty? This is a blatant echo of Russia's Vladimir Putin’s early rhetoric about Ukraine. Has this become a new manifesto of communist nations? Do they believe they have the right to attack or annex any nation they desire? President Biden needs to send his fierce objections and “line in the sand” to China's leaders on this issue? Unless free nations join us to stop China what kind of world are we about to inherit?
Leon Tirsch, Palm Beach Gardens
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Florida sample ballots and how-to-vote info not welcomed out of state
