An Open Letter to the Republican Party; from one of the millions of Americans that you accuse of voting fraud because we don’t vote for Donald Trump & Republican candidates
By: Eric Foster
Tags: Voting Rights, Elections, Republican Party, Democratic Party

An Open Letter to the Republican Party; from one of the millions of Americans that you accuse of voting fraud because we don’t vote for Donald Trump & Republican candidates Eric Foster Nov 9, 2020·5 min read

Good evening Republican Leadership.

How are you doing today? My name is Eric Foster, I’m writing as a fellow Michigan resident, 10th generation American & parent because I believe it’s time to ask this legitimate question. Why do you, State level Republicans, the National Republican Party and Donald Trump believe and act upon their “belief” that Americans who vote for Democrats or 3rd party candidates for elected office have committed voter fraud or can’t be trusted to vote legally?

Every election, the GOP says that voters in areas that vote overwhelmingly Democratic are cheating, committing crimes or doing something illegal. Your side demonizes fellow Americans like me who make the same type of informed voting choice as you do, but vote for different candidates. Your side says that only voters in GOP heavy precincts or Republican voters in general legally, clean & above reproach, but say that every vote cast by Americans who choose Democrats or Independents is wrong or improper.

That’s an illogical premise which supports what I and millions of Democratic & 3rd party voters feel; that Donald Trump and the Republican Party doesn’t believe all Americans should have an equal right to vote and that the Republican Party doesn’t accept Americans who vote for Democrats & 3rd party as equal citizens.

If you really believe that, you then must believe that people like me shouldn’t have the right to vote, since you don’t trust me to use it legally. If you don’t believe that, you put the life of myself, my remaining son, my family and each of the 75,409,310 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden and the 75,861,746 Americans (54.6%) in 2016 that voted for Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, other 3rd party candidates or voted down ballot and skipped the Presidential section of their ballot, in jeopardy because of the casting that votes in American cities and states that choose Democrats or Independents for other offices is corrupt & illegal.

This yearly theme of “Democratic voters are cheating” isn’t a logical way to sell your product to Democratic/3rd party voters. If the GOP believes that non-GOP voters are voting in the same good faith way that they are, prove it by stopping the accusations that Democratic voters are cheaters. you to consider the way you, Trump and the GOP talk about people like me who vote for Democrats & Independents.

When Trump gave his “I won, Americans who don’t support & didn’t vote for Trump Are Criminal” speech in the early morning of November 4, 2020, my legally cast vote in Ingham County Michigan hadn’t been counted yet. I voted early in-person in Michigan on 9/24/20. Michigan law didn’t allow for my vote & 2.9 Million other Michigan residents votes from being processed until November 2, 2020 and counted until after 8pm on November 3, 2020. On election day, Ingham County counted election day votes 1st. At the time of Trump’s speech, they were just starting to count early in-person & absentee ballots by mail. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Tucker Carlson, Ronna Romney McDaniels & the primary leadership said Michigan should have stopped counting votes at Midnight, meaning my legally cast vote would be discarded and not counted. The Trump Republican Party call included every State where Trump lead with election day voters and was trailing with early/absentee by mail voters. Why should my vote be discarded because I voted for Joe Biden, which is my Constitutional right & having followed the legal voting process in Michigan? Now thankfully because of State laws, all votes cast by statutory deadlines are being counted, you call my vote and other voters who choose Joe Biden fraudulent, criminal, illegal & corrupt. You can’t call me that and expect that I will feel equal or welcome in your society. Anyone who supports the Trump Republican position that my vote & the 2,794,853 Michigan residents who legally voted for Joe Biden are illegal, wrong & shouldn’t be counted isn’t a person I can be on the same page with. I will always be divided from anyone who believes that my citizenship and voting rights should be invalidated because I voted as I chose and it’s the opposite of the current occupant of an elected office?

I ask you to consider this as you plan how to fight for your guy. I’m proud of casting my vote for Joe Biden, just as I assume you are proud of casting your vote for Trump. I want to have my vote respected as legitimate & proper as I already know your vote is. The leader of your side, Donald Trump, doesn’t respect my choice and he incites a level of anger & violence against Non-Trump Americans that makes me feel unsafe in my country. I’m a 10th generation American whose family has been here since 1725 at least. These past four years have made me and my family feel unsafe in our country and that’s due to your guy. Your side doesn’t care, but I implore you as a parent, Michigan resident and American, to see my concerns as legitimate and stop saying that voting fraud, crimes or issues happen in precincts where Americans choose Democrats or Independents over Republicans in similar numbers to heavily Republican voting areas. If you truly believe that we’re both Americans, know that a “good economy” doesn’t alleviate these legitimate concerns with the accompanying demonization.

If you continue to delegitimize Americans like me, I can only assume that you think my citizenship isn’t valid and equal to yours. If you continue in this direction, the only logical assumption is that you will move to terminate voting rights for Americans who don’t vote for Republicans. Lindsey Graham said the quiet part out loud today (11/8/2020), when he said that “If we don’t change our election process, a Republican will never win another Presidential election”. The only way you can “change the process” is to eliminate the option or ability to vote for non-Republican candidates, restrict voting rights only to Republican voters or terminate the citizenship of Americans like me who won’t chose Republican candidates because you have nothing to offer us. Is that what you really want?

Thank you in advance for your time in reading my message. Have a blessed day.