To the editor:

To the person who in Wednesday’s paper called for us to “Respect each other and Rebuild Trust”…..you can’t do that by impugning unwarranted motives to the other side and assuming in advance, as the President is doing, that if he loses, he can claim the election fraudulent. The writer claimed that mail-in voting will be ” Unchecked”, and with ” No Accountability”, but “Absentee Ballots” would be ok. The voter may be surprised to learn that absentee ballots are mail-in ballots, and are subject to verification by signature just as in in-person voting, and if anyone votes by mail and then votes in person as the President has suggested, only one vote will count and, and the voter will be guilty of a felony.

Let’s ignore the propaganda, vote in whichever way we choose, and trust that the results will be fair. Crying about election rigging before the election takes place is just a way to dispute the outcome if it doesn’t go the right way. The President made the same claims about the 2016 election before the election, but not a peep after.

We all need to remember that people on the other side are people just like us, and are not inherently evil or unethical just because our beliefs are different.

George Downs

New Ulm