After reading your ''idiotorial'' on Aug. 8 concerning the ''messy'' election system and detailing many of the problems with the last election, I must wonder.
Is one a liberal because one is ignorant and dishonest, or is one ignorant and dishonest because one is a liberal?
You liberals, who went apoplectic over Florida, would not listen when many of us tried to tell you that what happened in Florida was no aberration - that the same problems occurred in almost every state and have happened in every election. It has taken a team of ''experts'' eight months to figure out what some of us knew all along. You continue to speak of ''uncounted'' ballots as if someone (Katherine Harris, of course) took perfectly executed ballots and tossed them in the trash, thereby ''disenfranchising'' the paranoid among us.
In fact, machines kicked out improperly executed ballots.
Now you want a holiday to vote. Is it too much to ask today's citizens to do what Americans have done without problem for 225 years? If you can't spend 15 to 30 minutes one day every four years to vote, you probably shouldn't be voting.
This is just a ploy to give the unions, who already have a holiday on Election Day, even more time to round up folks, take them to the polls, and direct them to vote for Democrats even if they know nothing about the person for whom they are ''voting.''
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
August 17, 2001
