Suspicious letters questioning voters' legal status

Attention voters! We have begun to witness locally, and at least in 14 other counties, efforts to suppress Republican votes in the upcoming election.

Suspicious letters questioning voters' legal status and citizenship began arriving in Florida over the past four days with a postmark from Seattle, Wash., accompanying a $.45 stamp. The local letter is supposedly from the Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Office of Earl Lennard, and from the appropriate supervisor of elections for other recipients around the state.

Several things should strike prospective voters' attention right away: First, the elections supervisor would not use a mailing house from out of state. They would not use stamps. And all official correspondences would have the Hillsborough supervisor's seal or the seal from individual county offices.