Dear Editor: I read the letters written by Pasquale DeStefano and Mary Davenport in the December 12, 1999, edition of the Hoboken Reporter regarding their contention that Tony Soares’ victory is the result of his position on the ballot. Do these people really think that the voting public is so ignorant that they don’t read the ballot — that they don’t pay attention to who they vote for? Is that what they did? Does Ms. Davenport’s notion that a chimpanzee would have won in that position suggest that, had Ed Stinson been in that position and won the race, that he was likely to win as a chimpanzee? Or does it suggest, perhaps, that Hoboken Democrats are chimpanzees? Dennis Rees