To the editor:

Recent letters to the editor contain content that I would like to address. The author of a letter about the Equal Rights Amendment asked women if their insurance premiums are higher than men’s premiums. My late husband and I had identical life insurance policies. We were born in the same year. I had hypertension and he had no chronic health problems. His premiums were higher than mine.

The author of that letter also stated that women who take their husband’s last name when married could have problems using their birth certificates as proof of citizenship at the BMV. This was for the purpose of registering to vote. When I applied for my Real ID at the BMV, I used my birth certificate and my marriage license as proof of citizenship and had no problem. I assume that women who chose to take their husband’s last name could also use those two documents to register to vote.

The author of another letter stated that our elections are in danger if mail-in balloting is eliminated. In 1981 I was pregnant and anticipating a C-Section close to Election Day; therefore, I would not be available to vote on Election Day. I called the board of elections, received an application for an absentee ballot, filled out the application and mailed it. When the ballot arrived, I followed the instructions to fill out the ballot and sent it back in the envelope that was supplied. The ballot needed to be returned to the board of elections by Election Day in order to be counted. This was an absentee ballot. This was not mail-in voting, but the following is an example of mail-in voting.

My daughter moved to her home in Wayne County, Mich., in 2019 and registered to vote using that address. She is the only occupant of that home. In 2020 she received a ballot at her home with an unknown name. She destroyed the ballot as soon as she recognized that it was an official ballot. Wayne County is one of the counties in which it’s believed there were questionable results in the 2020 election. President Trump wants to eliminate the second type of voting which has led to corruption in some states. There are states that have not purged their voter rolls for years. These states send ballots to people who may have moved or died. Who is filling out and mailing those ballots? I assume the process of absentee voting, which is used by our military who are stationed in foreign places and citizens who are homebound, will not be affected by the elimination of mail-in voting.

Giving people the correct information about voting and assisting them to request an absentee ballot or driving them to the polls to vote helps to keep our elections secure and uncorrupted.

Information about registering to vote and requesting an absentee ballot for the November election was published in the Herald-Star on Tuesday. I hope the information in this letter is helpful.

Michalene A. King

Wintersvillle