Dear Editor, Rob Wittman What Were Ya Thinkin? You voted to pass the “Save Act”. According to Brookings Institute and Heritage Foundation, data indicates that voter fraud is extremely rare in the United States. Some other studies are showing that incidents occur at rates as low as 0.000003% to 0.000096% of total votes cast. So where is the problem?

The “SAVE Act” (a Republican-backed proposal often described as requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections) would not disenfranchise people who are ineligible to vote (non‑citizens). The disenfranchisement concern is about eligible U.S. citizens.

While there may be several groups of eligible voters who may be disenfranchised or deterred totaling several million, this one is perhaps the most egregious.

Married women and others whose legal name doesn’t match their birth certificate will be not allowed to vote. The Act requires strict document matching, people who changed names due to marriage/divorce/adoption may need additional paperwork (marriage certificate, court order), creating extra cost/time barriers.

So, Rob Wittman, why did you vote to disenfranchises

Are you fixing a problem that does not exist to help a dictator.

Also, you voted “Nay” on the H. Con. Res. 38: Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This resolution directed the President to terminate the use of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran or any part of the Iranian government or military unless a declaration of war or authorization to use military force for such purpose has been enacted.

So, you are now complicit in the rising prices, economic chaos, death, destruction, discomfort in the Mid East, the hardship for American citizens, and the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars. Why were you so callus in your disregard of the consequences that did not have to happen. There was no imminent threat.

In either of these matters you are not representing your constituents! You are fostering a dictator. You are therefore complicit in all of the aftermath. -Jim Knupp, Hartfield