Our View: Shame on McLean and Peterson for endangering people's lives

Editor’s note: This version has been edited to reflect that people can make online requests for absentee ballots.

Shame, shame on Hill County Commissioners Diane McLean and Mark Peterson.

With a stroke of the pen, they have put people's health and very lives at risk.

McLean and Peterson voted down a resolution that would have sent mail ballots to every active registered voter in the county, giving them the option to avoid going to the polls and risking being exposed to COVID-19.

And praise goes to Hill County Commissioner Mike Wendland, who voted for the resolution.

At the same time, the vote...