It looks like bad timing for all mail-in voting since corruption in local politics might be at an all-time high (rail, Kealohas, bribery, federal investigations). In a climate of widespread government corruption, voter fraud becomes too easy and inviting.

The theory that we would improve Hawaii’s embarrassingly rock-bottom last-place voter turn-out rate is questionable. It may be that with all mail-in voting, you would simply increase the number of fraudulent votes, and votes by people who don’t even care enough to vote otherwise.

All mail-in voting simply means that we will trust local government officials to verify the legitimacy of each ballot. How confident are we of this? It should be noted that the ones under federal investigation are the very ones who are supposed to protect us from fraud and corruption.

Remember when they said how cheap and under-control rail would be?

Leighton Loo

Mililani

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