Dude Smith

Somewhere between Woke and MAGA

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

You don’t say?

[New York Post @nypost]

Skid Row homeless claim they've been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman https://t.co/mA0GqSGfus

[New York Post @nypost]

Skid Row homeless claim they've been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman https://t.co/mA0GqSGfus

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

This campaign is not about Democrat v Republican. It's about common sense, change, practical solutions.

I'm not a politician. I'm an outsider, running for governor to shake up a system that is obviously not working. Here's my story:

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

@Oldglorycries @marklevinshow lol, you actually believe that don’t you?

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

@IntellChaos @marklevinshow Wrong.

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

@Brick_Suit @marklevinshow Um wrong. A ballot doesn’t have to be postmarked by electron day. In fact, a person can just write the date on it even if it’s after election day. So actually, you can mail them in late. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

California's voting rules allow people to BACKDATE their ballot and vote AFTER election day.

Here is the section of the voting code that enables this insanity👇

We need to end this farce, count votes quickly, get Voter ID!

[AltAzn @Alt_Azn]

The Democrats never fixing the homeless problem is starting to make a lot more sense.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

here are some facts about California. some of this is hard to believe.

first of all, it's important to understand the concept of "ballot harvesting," which is perfectly legal in CA. this refers to a situation where someone completely unaffiliated with the voter can collect and submit their ballot for them.

this flow is completely legal:

- a homeless person arrives in LA, where they are eligible for cash assistance, SSI, food stamps, healthcare through medical, and an array of other taxpayer-funded services
- they are registered to vote by an NGO (many such NGOs exist and explicitly do this).
- they do not have to provide a residential address or any proof of residency to vote. they only have to provide a mailing address, which can be anywhere (church, NGO HQ, homeless shelter). their home address can be "a park" or "an underpass".
- their ballot is mailed to the homeless shelter (or whatever address the NGO elects for them)
- the only verification done for the mail-in ballot is "signature verification" and uniqueness (only one vote per person is counted theoretically).
- the signature can be an X. if they register with an X, they can sign with an X. that is sufficient to pass verification. signature verification is also deliberately loose. the signature does not have to be a perfect match.

now consider the hypothetical scenario, which is fraudulent, but virtually impossible to detect:

- a homeless person cycles through the LA system. they get registered with their mailing address listed as the NGO HQ or homeless shelter
- they "sign" their registration with an X or nondescript, easily replicable signature
- they disappear. never seen again. or they exist, but it doesn't matter. they don't get purged from the voter rolls for 4-8 years typically.
- the address where they registered receives their ballot for several cycles
- operatives are aware that they have X amount of votes to make up. they fill in X many thousand mail-in ballots themselves. the ballots are manually postmarked (permitted). they forge the signature to match whatever signature (could be an X) was submitted upon registration
- ballots can be accepted even if they are postmarked at 11.59 pm. polls closed at 8 pm. (you would need an accomplice who is a USPS employee)
- the only fraud checks are de-duplication (if the homeless person through some miracle voted in person, only one of their ballots would be counted) and signature verification
- because very few of the homeless people in question would have voted in person, this gives NGO operatives tens of thousands of possible mail-in ballots to submit unilaterally.

the big problem is that there is NO way to detect this type of fraud. NGOs that register homeless people to vote exist. that isn't a secret. ballot harvesting is fully legal. voting by mail is encouraged. signature verification is as loose as possible. de-duplication doesn't solve anything, since few homeless people vote in person. and no one in power locally is going to spend political capital on rooting out such fraud, since they are all wholeheartedly committed to "voting rights".

in a situation where fraud is undetectable, the absence of hard proof of fraud is not evidence that no fraud exists.

Raman has gained around 20k votes since election night. She is around 3k votes ahead of Pratt now.

there are over 72 thousand homeless people in LA county.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

They're going to take pretty much everything, you know. But it's ok. There will be minor intervals of recovery so things can stabilize and they can come in and take even more.

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

@XavierBecerra Democrat platform/policies:

1. Hate & cry about Trump
2. Repeat number one

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

@kwelkernbc @NBCNews @MeetThePress He should’ve let you hit your ignorant/arrogant head.

[Dude Smith @Determinatorus]

@JamieBonkiewicz However long we have to tolerate men stealing trophies from women in sports.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

It appears that a literal communist will be the moderate choice in the LA mayor's race. Incredible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

"A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.."

43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before...?

Probably nothing. 🤷

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Leftist cities that have been governed by failed ideologies and plagued with crime, homelessness, decay and administrative incompetence need to change course.

That won’t happen, though, if the only other option is a candidate more ideologically left and even less administratively competent.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

California's election system, like so much else in our state, is broken and needs major reform. See below for my plan to accelerate the count so we can get results by 8pm this coming Thursday June 11th. And longer term reforms so we don't see this kind of shambles again.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Six years ago today. This was real. This was policy. This is how we found ourselves living in ANIMAL FARM.