Election Message

* Re “Davis, Boxer Win; Prop. 5 OKd,” Nov. 4:

This election message was clear. Republicans, stop digging into the sex lives of people and start doing your job of addressing the issues that concern people--education, crime, health care, etc. Negative witch hunts will backfire on you.

RICHARD DIAMOND

Los Angeles

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Plain and simple, the American public favors the party that supported a man for lying under oath and punishes the one that chose to look into the matter. This country is farther along in its decline than I had anticipated. In addition, Uncle Sam is destroying the tobacco industry for my own good, and is now going after the firearms industry to save me from myself. Not too many of us seem alarmed. I hope my newborn son will enjoy all of the freedoms I have today when he is 30 years old.

STEVEN D. PRUETT

Glendale

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It is empowering to discover that the loud, pontificating radio talk-show hosts, self-righteous Sunday morning television pundits and mean-spirited political cartoonists all might be profitable to their employers, but have no idea what America believes in. Where are you, Michael Jackson?

STEVE YOUNG

Glendale

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Re “Sanchez Beats Dornan,” Nov. 4: Now maybe [former Republican Rep.] Robert Dornan will give us all a break and quietly--something novel for him--spend the rest of his life in obscurity with his family.

DON M. HOWARD

Oak Hills

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We insist that drivers have car insurance; why don’t we insist that citizens have democracy insurance? Let’s adopt the Australian model and require citizens to vote, and penalize those who don’t.

LAUREL HALL

Whittier

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It seems to me that the time has come for the electorate to be permitted to vote via the Internet, as is already done for most major corporations in their proxy voting procedures. It would save time and gasoline, as well as reduce traffic and air pollution from all those unnecessary automobile trips.

ROBERT ANDREWS

Claremont

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I’ve been berated, inundated, satiated and nauseated; I am amazed, fazed, crazed and dazed--my eyes are glazed. I picked eight Democrats, two Republicans, one Green and a dead man, and I mailed my ballot using a Looney Tunes stamp.

I’m an American. I voted.

JEAN BRANDT

Encino

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I have a proposition for the next election: That it be against the law for any politician, political party or PAC to call a residence for any reason without prior written permission from that residence.

I got five calls per day for a week, then one evening a call every three minutes for an hour and a half--and my number is unlisted! And who was calling? The Republican Party and its candidates--just one more instance when they fail to support the concept of the right to be left alone.

Enough already!

MELODY SUPPES

Palos Verdes

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I, along with several dozen other angered voters, were disgruntled to find that our polling place (Lycee International de Los Angeles library, 4155 Russell Ave.) was not up and running until approximately 8:40 a.m., nearly two hours later than promised. Even then, with no voting booths in sight, people (some of whom had been waiting patiently since 7 a.m.) proceeded to vote, hunched over tables in the cafeteria.

However, at a time when voter apathy seems to be one of our country’s sad realities, it was heartening to experience an immediate connection with a diverse group of individuals bonded by our attempt to make our vote count. Even if we were casting our votes differently, we were unquestionably united in our righteous frustration and our determination to make a difference. It infused me with a sense of belonging, a feeling of all-American pride.

MICHAEL KEARNS

Los Angeles