ALL voting should be in person
A while back Vietnam caused the voting age to be lowered to 18.
We now have a Marxist Revolution across our great country. Because of this revolution we need to raise the voting age to 25. And, ALL voting is to be in person with a valid photo ID.
Dale Winters, Kapa‘a
Reminder, you’re eligible to vote
Just a brief reminder that registered voters in Hawai’i who are on probation or parole are eligible to vote in the State of Hawai’i. According to the Office of Elections, State of Hawai’i Fact Sheet FS509VS001, (https://elections.hawaii.gov/voters/i-am-a/voters-with-a-felony-conviction/)
A person sentenced for a felony, from the time of the person’s sentence until the person’s final discharge, may not vote in an election, but if the person is placed on probation or the person is paroled after commitment to imprisonment, the person may vote during the period of the probation or parole.
Esther Solomon, Kapa‘a
Shame, shame, shame
Soon after we hung up the banner supporting Ed Justus for County Council on the Kapaa Roxy Square fence facing the church, someone(s) drove up in a dark truck and it disappeared. The observer of the truck was unaware they might be doing something to the banner.
Shame, shame, shame. Every candidate should recognize the responsibility to tell supporters to follow the law and not do this.
Ed Justus deserves a vote for Council because he is smart, has served on the county Charter Review Commission, has a small business and is devoted to Kaua’i. He recognizes we must become more self-sufficient and support agriculture.
Please, whoever destroyed his banner, apologize, return it if possible, and, in the future, follow the law and rules for campaigns.
Bill and Judith Fernandez, Kapa‘a
Dale, the year is now 2020. We have the technology to create multiple secure ways to vote. There should be at least 3 ways. In person, by mail, and online. If we can file and pay our taxes securely online it is easy to create a secure online voting system. We just need to have the will to do it.
You can’t just demand that your preferred way of voting be the only way to vote. Especially because your reasoning is completely arbitrary.
A bigger crock of BS, I have never seen in TGI! Would definitely the trump trainers on thei lost cause, for certain.
Dear Dale-
I would very very interested to hear your definition of “Marxism/Marxist” and Revolution.
It would also be illuminating to hear how you think changing the voting age helps fight this scourge you seem to think is ravaging our “great nation”.
And further, what evidence have you or any meaningful level of voter fraud anywhere in the USA?
Did you ask the property owner(s) for permission to hang the sign on the fence? If not, that answers your question. Every election year, people go around placing their signs on public (illegal) and private property without permission. Just cause your running for office, doesn’t give you the right to plaster your face on others property.
Yes, I do always ask permission for whatever private property I put up a political sign, since State and County law makes it a fineable offense to place them on public property.
Judith and Bill Fernandez (the writers of this letter) are the owners of the Roxy Square property in Kapaa where the banner was stolen from, therefore they had the right to have the sign on display on their property.
I do agree, however, and have noticed over the years the continued placements of political banners on public property (including questionable placements on long-time vacant private property), which should be addressed.
If people want Marxism, they have a right to vote for it.
This is America. We are free to vote for whatever we please.
Dale Winter’s comments Thursday are a typical Republican response. “If you don’t agree with me, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” Sorry, you need to get over that.
Dale, your suggestions are so 1970’s. IT was not the vietnam war that prompted lowering the voting age to 18. It was the reality that 18 yo’s were old enough for the republicans to use as canon fodder, but not old enough to decide who it was that was sending them to SE Asia! Rich republicans could and did “buy” their son’s exemptions: case in point: bone spur in chief. Voter registration can and should be done by the DMV, since they seem to know where all of us currently are. Marxist revolution….indeed! “Well, its 1…2…3…what are we fighting for? Dont ask me, I dont give a damn….next stop is (choose the latest US Police action).” Feel free to salute your fuhrer, Dale, while he attempts to manufacturer solutions to non existent voting “problems”. 18 it is, and should always have been.
Are we also to raise the age for military service to 25? One of the most compelling comments I heard during the debate over lowering the voting age to 18 was from a young military man who said, “if I’m old enough to die for my country, am I not old enough to decide who sends me to my death?” I would say yes.