Letter to the editor: GOP's hollow words on election integrity

Republican Joe DiSarro, political science professor at Washington & Jefferson College, believes that Republicans’ redistricting plan, which political observers suggest favors Republicans, is a better option for Western Pennsylvania (“Westmoreland officials favor congressional map that unifies county”). This plan splits communities where Democratic voters reside and moves those voters into districts where they would be outnumbered by Republicans,

Those same legislators have introduced bills that would allow their caucus to change or overturn any election results they disagree with and permit their party’s representatives to enter county election offices following an election to confiscate and destroy mail-in ballots. They have repeatedly told their constituents that turning our 2020 election ballots and personal information for audit to some unknown third party protects the integrity of future elections.

Now, they are creating legislative districts to give Republican voters an unfair advantage, making it impossible for Democratic political candidates to ever win elected office in Pennsylvania again.

The more Republican legislators say these actions are being put in place to “protect the integrity of elections,” the more their hollow words sound like voter suppression to me.

Frances Weiss

White Oak