Letter to the editor: 'Election integrity' is just voter suppression

Pennsylvania Rep. Eric Nelson’s piece “Pennsylvania is Exhibit A for why election integrity matters” (Aug. 11, TribLIVE) repackages voter suppression as ‘election integrity’ in a coordinated Republican disinformation campaign. See the same talking points from Sen. Kim Ward (“A step toward election integrity in Pa.,” July 24, TribLIVE) Coincidence?

Nelson calls for states to remove dead people from voter rolls. This already happens. Officials removed 84,577 deceased voters and 180,918 out-of-state movers from the Pennsylvania voter rolls in 2020. Pennsylvania also requires risk-limiting audits, the gold standard for secure elections. The 2020 election was investigated extensively — largely by Republican election officials — and found to be the most secure ever.

Nelson calls for all elections to happen on the same day. Does he mean getting rid of mail-in voting, instituted in 2019 by the majority Republican Legislature? Because we already have one day for voting — it’s called Election Day. This year, it’s on Nov. 8, when I will vote for Democrats who won’t waste our time on nonexistent problems but focus on the economy, climate change and protecting individual freedoms.

Elaine Rybski

Point Breeze