Letters: Our voter turnout was 'shameful.' The 'angry wordsmith' has Donald Trump pegged

I am with the 'angry wordsmith'

Kudos to William DiMascio for his Nov. 10 column "Will anyone stand up and battle the former ‘grifter-in-chief'?"

This angry wordsmith expressed precisely the sentiments I have long declined to utter out loud for fear of offending my fellow citizens down here in southeast Ohio.

Speaking of stealing government secrets and stashing them in a closet at Mar-a-Lago, when I was a child Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for stealing secrets and turning them over to the Russians.

According to Wikipedia, the federal prosecutor who claimed credit for recommending electrocution was Roy Cohn, who later became the Trump family consigliere.

Opinion:Trump is a lot like his mentor, my cousin Roy Cohn. Now he's leaving like him, in disgrace.

One wonders what Roy would say today about his protégé Donald. There is no evidence that the former grifter-in-chief leaked his purloined secrets to the Russians, but we can be certain that the intelligence agencies in the government must now treat the missing information as if he had.

And why would anybody steal government secrets, anyway?

William C. Martin, Jackson

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Address 'shamefully low election turnout'

Only 47.2 percent of eligible voters in Franklin County cast ballots in the recent midterm elections, including those who voted on Election Day, by early voting, and absentee.

More than half of our citizens didn’t participate in the most essential act of democracy.

This is shameful.

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What can be done to increase the involvement of the citizens in the selection of their leaders and the actions of their government?

One step, which is in place in many nations, would be to observe a national holiday on Election Day. Workers would not be compelled to choose between missing work and voting. As a practical matter, many more hours would be realistically available for a visit to the polls.

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Let’s take this step to remove one obstacle to voter participation and combat the shamefully low election turnout.

Ronald L. Solove, Columbus

Ohio should have believed J.D. Vance

J.D. Vance claimed there was illegal voting on a large-scale basis in the 2020 election, and he encouraged people to support those who were charged with crimes in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Maya Angelou said believe people the first time they tell you something. It has nothing to do with politics.

It is un-American.

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Syd Lifshin, Columbus

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Letters: We should be ashamed of voter turnout. Pictured painted of Donald Trump