It’s Hard to Be Absentee Voter Without a Ballot

Prior to the vote in Alhambra on the new police station, I did not have strong feelings either way on this measure. My feelings changed when I received my sample ballot in the late afternoon of Sept. 10, 1991, and it said that if I wanted an absentee ballot, I had to mail it in and it had to be received by Sept. 10.

If this is not illegal, it should be. I called City Hall twice. Both times I was told if I wanted to vote, I could come to City Hall and they would let me vote before the regular election. Whether this would have passed or not, who knows what would have happened if the many voters that were denied an absentee ballot had been permitted to vote? I wonder if this was deliberate.

LYLE D. BORKHART

Alhambra