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Readers Write: Voting rights and integrity, COVID vaccinations, Wisconsin wolf hunt, Still, Republicans persist. Text size Copy shortlink: Republican state Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer imagines voter fraud and believes the answer to that is transparency ( GOP calls for more limits on voters, front page, March 7). Transparency requires truth-telling and not selling a problem that doesn t exist. Clearly, Minnesota does not have voter fraud worthy of legislative attention. A dozen or so votes out of millions cast do not warrant the voting burdens Kiffmeyer and the Republicans want to place on exercising one s right to vote. Undeterred, Kiffmeyer claims folks ask these questions about voter fraud and we should try to get them answered. It s easy to get them answered: There isn t any meaningful voter fraud. The U.S. Supreme Court and more than 60 court cases from jurisdictions across the nation universally rej ....
Readers Write: End-of-life issues, loitering laws, Black Minnesota musicians Death is not the solution. March 5, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: I agree with Dr. Steve Bergeson ( Aid in dying is not the help sick Minnesotans need, Opinion Exchange, March 3) that the End of Life Option Act proposed by state Sen. Chris Eaton and Rep. Mike Freiberg is the wrong way to help sick Minnesotans. Assisted suicide normalizes suicide. Assisted suicide devalues the sick, the disabled, the elderly and the poor, those who do not have access to proper care for mental illness. Assisted suicide leads to a view that our lives only have value if we are productive, rather than recognizing the inherent value of all human beings. And isn t this failure to recognize the value of each person at the heart of the abuses we see around us: racism, murder, bullying, sexual exploitation? ....