Too much paper and mud

Goodbye annoying, nasty ads, so long dirt-flinging rhetoric and farewell to the constant assault of pounding negative nonsense into our heads minute by minute, hour after hour and month after month.

Now we can go back to the really important ads: being brainwashed about being sick and needing every single pill that has been manufactured in the universe for illnesses we never even knew we had. Can’t wait.

Even that will be a relief after this very long and latest political mud fest.

FRANCES TERRELL LIPPMAN

Los Angeles

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I want to thank my letter carrier for delivering what might very well amount to 10 trees worth of political ads. I have never seen such a shameful waste of a resource.

I would appreciate it if the winners (or the losers) would kindly drive through their respective towns and remove every single campaign poster that they have chosen to plaster our lives with.

And I might add that it’s bad enough to use so much paper to get out their message, but to staple their signs to a tree? How ironic is that?

DENISE GEE

San Clemente

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Re “Mail-order democracy,” Current, Nov. 5

Steven Hill says that “the rise of absentee voting, while convenient for voters, is a headache for political campaigns.”

Although I do understand his other points about “the cost of voting by mail,” given what I’ve seen of most of the political campaigns (especially on both sides of many of the propositions), I can’t bring myself to feel sorry for the political campaigns.

BOB ABRAHAMS

Los Angeles

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Hill thinks it’s bad that absentee voting allows people to decide without being fooled by the lying, mudslinging propaganda produced by the political parties? It sounds to me like the first victory for democracy in a long time.

WALTER RICHMOND

La Crescenta

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The booklet one is handed for voting is quite formidable. I can see that the process puts off many people by the sheer amount of time and work that goes into just reading the document. Probably many people decide to avoid the whole thing because they are overwhelmed. I think it should be made clear that just one person or proposition can be selected and the rest left blank. Each individual should just vote for whomever or whatever he or she understands. If you just care about who is governor, mark the appropriate spot and leave the rest. But vote!

MARY OVERBEY

Palos Verdes Estates