Re: “Could Canada provide a lesson in conducting federal elections?” (March 16, Opinion):
The concepts put forth by Hugh Spitzer in his opinion piece about the value of a federal elections office have much to recommend them. Sadly, regardless of the value of these proposals, they will have to wait because they rest on the structure of “a completely independent, nonpartisan body.”
The current administration will most certainly not allow “a completely independent, nonpartisan body.” Indeed, this administration is actively engaged in engineering the destruction of numerous federal bodies that were intended to be nonpolitical and expertise-based.
The two top examples that spring to mind are the Federal Reserve System and the governing board of the Kennedy Center. A little computer searching gives us the National Labor Relations Board, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. I could go on, but you get the point.
Any effort to make our elections fairer and standardized across the nation will have to wait until we have leaders who live in a reality-based world.
Kit Hope, Bremerton
