To the Editor,
Rank Choice Voting: JFK, Stalin, or Hitler
Rank Choice Voting/Prop 1 is a manufactured democracy, a pseudo democracy.  For instance, consider a simple, hypothetical election with John F Kennedy, Stalin, and Hitler.  Votes are counted.  Results: JFK 49%, Stalin 26%, Hitler 25%.  No one has a majority.  Consequently a ‘new election/count’ is initiated.  People’s second choices are counted.  Everyone that voted for JFK didn’t like Stalin or Hitler so they don’t write in a second choice.  Their ballots are ‘thrown away’.   However, the 2^nd choice for those who voted for Stalin is Hitler.  Likewise those who voted for Hitler cast a vote for Stalin. Who wins?  Conceptually it’s Hitler.  Hitler now has 26 of 51 votes in the second round, a majority, a manufactured majority.   I will not vote for Prop 1.  Further, what mayors, city councils, commissioners, county clerks and staffs, and more specifically state legislators have approved or reviewed the algorithms/software?  Are these computer codes governed locally?  Finally, if individuals in a county do not trust the county clerk and staff and their ability to count votes, then people should elect a new county clerk.
Scott Perrin
Cottonwood


To the Editor
HJR 5 is a very tricky constitutional amendment and I need to explain why.  Most Americans, including our representatives, do not really understand our laws. We have had, in place, for over a century, legal color-of-law and contract tricks in place that destroy our true representation and understanding of our legal reality.  Our public educational system has helped foment this problem by not teaching Common Law and Contract Law precepts to us.
The government recognizes two distinct classes of citizens: a state citizen and a federal citizen. Each has different rights and responsibilities. State citizens created the states which created the federal government which, in turn, created federal citizens. Most people are born state citizens and become federal (US) citizens without knowing it.  An excellent longer article on this complex issue can be found at https://constitutionalcommando.com/state-citizenship-vs-us-citizenship/ .
HJR 5 removes the right to vote from all state citizens by requiring all voters to be US (federal) citizens.  If it allowed both federal and state citizens to vote, then I would have no problem with this amendment because its purpose appears to be to prevent illegal aliens from voting.
I have sent this letter to each of our state legislature members who voted for this resolution.  This is a huge can of worms which I wish our representatives understood.  Many of both our state and federal constitutional amendments have watered down and actually removed many of our Common Law rights and protections.  It is one of the biggest scams in history, in plain sight, yet most are blind to it.
I can’t decide how to vote on this ballot measure, as I don’t want illegal aliens voting in our state but I don’t want us cutting out core rights of state citizens.  Either way, I think we lose.
Sandy (Sanford) Staab
Kooskia