I am a proud card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and I support their efforts to end voter suppression in the U.S., but ACLU is now wants the government to pay for stamps for mail-in ballots.
The article in today’s Morning Call calling attention to this move notes that a woman named Delinda Bryant says that paying for this years mail-in ballot will be a struggle because she doesn’t have $10.00 for a book of stamps.
Would somebody please inform Ms. Bryant that you only need one stamp. One stamp costs 55 cents. You can buy one stamp at the post office. I have seen people at the Kresgeville Post Office do that many times.
Voter suppression includes reducing polling places, moving polling places, demanding impossible forms of I.D., and cutting hours to vote. The cost of a stamp is not going to keep people from voting. If you can’t afford a stamp, I’m pretty sure you can find a supporter who agrees with you who would provide one. If you live in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Montana, Utah, or Wyoming, and you can’t afford a stamp, and you are a Biden supporter, please let me know.
See Julie Carr Smyth, “Stamps a sticky issue in Nov. elections,” Morning Call, (July 22, 2020), p. 9.
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