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To the Editor:

Re “Russians Hunted Election Defects in All 50 States” (front page, July 26):

Why is the report from the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee so heavily redacted? Is it to try to limit speculation that Russian efforts actually changed the outcome of some 2016 elections (including perhaps the election of the president)?

Would more information about what was detected reveal secret United States intelligence sources and methods? Is it an effort to conceal American intelligence failures in 2016? Could it be to hide the fact that we are powerless to prevent such interference in the future? Or something else?

With the very core of our democratic process at stake — and with continuing Republican efforts to thwart improved election security — we urgently need to know precisely why we are being told so little.

Stephen Dycus
Strafford, Vt.
The writer teaches national security law at Vermont Law School.

To the Editor:

Two questions regarding Russian interference in our elections:

Why did Russia influence our presidential election in favor of Donald Trump?

Why doesn’t the Democratic Party exploit the response to the first question to its advantage?

Michael G. Kurcias
Otis, Mass.

To the Editor:

If the Russians can indeed commit cyberwarfare with our election apparatus, let’s look back at our history for a solution: Go back to paper ballots.

Herbert H. Feldman
White Plains

Buttigieg’s Years in the Closet

To the Editor:

Re “Fear of ‘Career Death Sentence’ Kept Buttigieg in Closet Until 33” (“The Long Run” series, front page, July 14):

A member of the Stonewall generation, I am ambivalent about the candidacy of Pete Buttigieg. I admire his achievements and years of public service. I am impatient with the cautious calculations about the risks of being out and recall the physical and social dangers that many of us overcame in the 1950s and ’60s to live as gay people.

There are many roads to a full and satisfying life, and I am glad that Mr. Buttigieg has found his. I only hope that he will remember the shoulders upon which he stands.

Jonathan Silin
Amagansett, N.Y.

What’s a Plane Flight Without a Book?

To the Editor:

“How to Have a Good Flight” (Here to Help, July 24) is an unintended sign of the times.

The several suggestions of how to “make the best of your in-flight time” do not include the reading of a book or simply the enjoyment of quiet contemplation.

The world is indeed “too much with us.”

John Martin Jones Jr.
Brewster, Mass.

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