Letter to the editor: Legislators wrong to fight mail-in voting

I believe Trump supporter Leslie Rossi, Republican candidate for the state House seat in the 59th District, who’s urging like-minded voters in that district to go in person to their polling places May 18 and help her become their next state legislator, would vote to overturn our state’s mail-in voting law.

I’ve voted in person for every election since I turned 18. But now I’m at high risk for contracting covid-19 because of my age (71) and my autoimmune disease. I don’t drive, and my community has no public transportation to get me to the polling place. I voted by mail in the 2020 presidential election and I submitted my application for a mail-in ballot for this year’s primary election.

I believe overturning the state’s mail-in voting law is another GOP voter suppression tactic to stop hundreds of thousands of legally registered voters from casting our votes, decrease election turnout and favor Republican candidates. This will penalize voters who, because of their age, location, lack of transportation, inability to receive covid vaccines or other medical challenges, don’t want to risk going inside a polling place during this horrific pandemic.

Many Republican legislators say they support allowing mail-in voting for Pennsylvania voters who are active duty military and Pennsylvanians who work out of state. I want to hear how these state legislators will justify overturning the mail-in voting law while allowing exceptions for certain voters but denying others the right to cast our votes by mail, a right granted by both the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions.

Frances Weiss

White Oak