Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting safeguards

I have a question on where letter-writer Daniel C. Mahon Sr. (“Mail-in voting would damage election process,” May 24, TribLIVE) got his information. You see, Mr. Mahon, if you did participate in the mail-in ballot process, you would have learned two things from the beginning to the complete process.

First, when you apply for the application, you are required to supply your driver’s license number. This enables the election board to verify your information and your signature through PennDOT. Second, you are required to sign your personally addressed and numbered ballot before you mail it back. It is at this point the election board and other officials will be able to verify if your signature from both documents agree. Thus, this eliminates the possibilities of stuffing the ballot boxes.

Just because people are registered doesn’t mean they will vote by mail. People have to apply for the mail-in ballot.

Peg Bittner

South Park

The writer is a volunteer for Back to Blue PA 2020 and has been working campaign phone banks since the 1970s.