To my fellow citizens who are angry and frustrated because they believe they were disenfranchised by a presidential election that was stolen, your feelings are understandable. Hold that thought.
To help the nation heal and reunite, I hope you will exercise your patriotic and civic responsibility to examine whether your belief is correct. Please look to all sources of information and evaluate those sources credibility based on their track record, any partisan influences, and explanatory narratives. The credible evidence shows definitively that there was no widespread fraud nor other regularities substantial enough to have altered the vote count by more than a couple hundred votes in any one state let alone tens of thousands in multiple states.
Likewise, the credible evidence of voter fraud in past elections, including studies conducted by Republicans and nonpartisan entities, shows that voter fraud is literally one-in-a-million votes or close to it. Thus, the passage of laws in numerous States in recent years to prevent voter fraud will, at best in each State, prevent only a handful or two of fraudulent votes while disenfranchising thousands to hundreds of thousands. Imagine the anger and frustration of the thousands of disenfranchised citizens and those with political views similar to the disenfranchised.
We should be making it easier, not harder, to vote, with sensible rules and anti-fraud measures which don’t do more harm than good.
Karl Johnson, Salt Lake City