The vaunted "4th Largest Economy in the World" is running out of gas, it's experiencing a brain (and money) drain, its kids can't read or compute at grade level, and it has a damned third-world election system. Wait, wait, wait— belay that last assertion. The Third World has a more trusted election system than California's.
California's elections aren't trusted because California Democrats don't want to make them secure and beyond reproach. Period. In fact, they've made the election system less secure and more easily and silently gamed.
People screech that there's rampant fraud. Self-satisfied smirkers demand proof of voter fraud. You can't find fraud you don't look for. And you can't see it because the entire structure of the enterprise masks it.
The Democrat supermajority expanded the universe of ballots sent out without request during COVID. On Gavin Newsom's watch, they outlawed asking for identification at voting places. As a legislator, Bill Essayli, who later became the guy in charge of the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A., was kicked off the legislative elections committee because he pointed out problems with the system. And, let's be honest, he was probably perceived as a pain in the ass because he was so painstaking.
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Consider his experience at trying to register to vote using the state's website. Would-be voters were never stopped from registering for failing to have one, more, or all methods of identification.
I'm on the website for the State of California to register to vote, on the section where you put in your driver's license, your last four of your social, there's a box underneath each one. It says, I don't have one. I don't have one. And then you're allowed to proceed to go to vote. What is the agenda here? Why do we let people register to vote and we don't verify their immigration status? We need to instill confidence in our elections.
The problems are legion. The universe of ballots sent to voters is some 23,000,000, and fewer than 10% of those are returned. Ballots are sent to everyone on the list regardless of whether they're living or dead, living in California and/or living and voting elsewhere, or are a person impersonating a voter. And officials don't routinely purge their lists. This isn't just a vulnerability; it's insanity.
The universal mail-out of ballots was started during COVID right after new, improved, and more secure voting rules had been approved and put into practice. This mass mailing of ballots blew up the new procedures that were endorsed by the Voter Integrity Project of California.
Signatures are checked only after a person has voted. If one is impersonating another voter, there's no basis for comparison except for the fraudulent signature. This is a huge problem.
And here's something to think about. Who's checking those signatures at that ballot warehouse in the City of Industry and elsewhere? Millennials who haven't been taught cursive writing? The entire enterprise is a weak spot.
Once a mail-in ballot has been separated from its envelope and warehoused, there is no identification whatsoever connected to that ballot. This is a problem. Ballots should be checked and immediately tabulated.
Furthermore, there a lot of ballots out there for people who are no longer eligible voters — or were never eligible in the first place. That's why the feds want to look at the rolls. And that's why Gavin Newsom and his girl Shirley Weber, the Secretary of State, don't want Harmeet Dhillon, a Californian and now civil rights division chief at the Department of Justice, to look at them.
Gavin Newsom signed into law a measure outlawing cities or counties in the nation's most populous state from passing voter ID laws. This weakens security, obviously.
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Voters are allowed to mail their ballots in even on Election Day, provided they have a postmark. The Democrat-run state allows those ballots to be counted up to seven days after the election. The currently leading gubernatorial candidate, Steve Hilton, reports that a whistleblower informed him the workers who oversee this part of the process are told to accept even hand-scrawled assurances on the envelope that, yup, it was mailed on Election Day. It appears Democrats don't give a flying flip about voter integrity in Gavin Newsom's California. And don't get me started on chain of custody.
Weber claims the slow roll of the counting process is owed to the meticulous signature verification process, up to a week after Election Day. The so-called meticulous signature verification should be dialed in on or before Election Day. Votes should be counted on Election Day. It's called Election DAY in the U.S. Constitution.
Failure to do this erodes trust in the system for very good reason. Why would Americans, who have watched this cadre of California leftist cronies — like Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff, Ro Khanna, Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter, Scott Wiener, Maxine Waters, Alex Padilla, Nancy Pelosi, and Xavier Becerra — operate lawlessly in their quest for raw power for all these years trust a damned thing they do or assurances they give us now?
As Otter told Flounder, "You f***ed up, you trusted us."
Don't be Flounder.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule next week on how long "Election Day" can last. If the Court rules in this Mississippi case that Election Day is, well, Election DAY, California will once again waste taxpayer dollars, sue, and lose. The voters, however, will have won a small battle for voter integrity in that untrustworthy state.
