If CA leaders wanted to prioritize a faster vote count, these are some of the policies they could implement:
-Ballots must be RECEIVED by Election Day. If you’re voting last minute, you have to vote in person or take your ballot to a county drop off spot. Then you wouldn’t need to wait 7 days to know how many ballots are needed to count
-Only mail ballots to voters who request them…not every registered voter. This would cut down on ballots being sent to bad addresses or the chances for ballot harvesting
-Send all registered voters free ID cards & require those cards for in person voting. Do not allow same day registration. This would likely cut down on provisional ballots that take longer to examine and process.
-Cut down the number of days to “cure” your ballot if there’s an issue from 10 to 5. This would allow for a faster certification date.
This would all speed up the count.
Could all of this lead to fewer people voting? Possibly.
Is the trade off worth it? That’s up to policy makers to determine.
A reminder: the current candidates for Gov. and Secretary of State have very different views on these issues.
Protecting the integrity of California’s elections is a top priority for my office.
California’s election system has serious structural vulnerabilities. Universal vote-by-mail with no voter ID requirements creates conditions where fraud can go undetected and unpunished, eroding public confidence.
Without commenting on any specific investigation, my office has multiple election fraud investigations underway in coordination with @FBILosAngeles. We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent.
My office is also working closely with @AAGDhillon to conduct a comprehensive audit of California’s voter rolls. The state has stonewalled every effort to verify that only eligible U.S. citizens are registered to vote. This case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
My office will not look the other way. We will investigate and prosecute. Every legal vote deserves to be counted. Every illegal vote cancels one out.
California's inability to confirm the outcome of an election for weeks speaks volumes about the low expectations of citizens on the performance of their government in basic functions... https://t.co/kkMRCfYeLG
I made 13 separate requests for outside support, beginning on January 3. Every request was denied until 2:09 p.m. on 1/6, when then-@SpeakerPelosi’s Sergeant at Arms finally approved assistance.
Two minutes later, the first Capitol window was broken.
The next day, Speaker Pelosi went on national television, singled me out by name, and forced me from my position.😡
In California, election results take weeks.
In recent races, 40%-50% of the vote is counted after election night.
This is not normal.
America deserves secure elections with results on the same night.
@ABC7 Then explain why Gavin Newsom has now signed a law that poll watchers are no longer allowed to verify signatures on mass mail in voting envelopes after being caught registering the homeless.
In May 2016 David Samuels published a New York Times Magazine profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes in which Rhodes openly described how the administration manufactured a media echo chamber to sell the Iran nuclear deal. Rhodes, in his own words: "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing."
He acknowledged that the public timeline the administration gave for the negotiations (starting after Rouhani's 2013 election) was itself a fabrication crafted for domestic political consumption, and he described a network of think-tank experts and reporters recruited to amplify approved talking points.
The $400 million cash payment flown to Tehran on pallets in foreign currency on the same day in January 2016 that four American hostages were released.
Administration officials initially denied any linkage before State Department spokesman John Kirby conceded the payment had been used as leverage.
Rhodes' admission deserved a sustained institutional reckoning inside American journalism about how foreign policy narratives get manufactured and laundered through nominally independent outlets. The actual coverage was brief, dispersed, and quickly absorbed.
The thinness of that response arguably validated his thesis.
CBS has fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, and rightly so. He betrayed journalistic principles in platforming debunked science, in being closed-minded and dogmatic, and in behaving like a pompous ass. Good riddance.
INVESTIGATION: A whistleblower has leaked Stanford's private foreign-funding records to the Review, revealing millions in funding from Chinese state-linked entities and CCP donors.
Chicago at 6 a.m.....hundreds of Border Patrol agents dropping in from military aircraft. They never saw us coming. The lightning strikes were working.
Self-deportations were rising.
Criminals were getting nervous.
Then Minneapolis hit and the politicians lost their nerve.
Reality check: We’re closer to 100 million illegals here, not the lowball numbers you hear.
Sanctuary cities protect the worst of them while good Americans pay the price.
Border Patrol can handle the riots. What we need now is the will to finish the job....
The Florida Department of Corrections classified over 40,000 inmates with Hispanic surnames (not to mention photos) as WHITE.
You know why this is being done.
It's WIDESPREAD.
HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!
The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.
Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?
@LACountyRRCC@ZavalaA Florida counts its votes within hours. The fact that “it’s always been this way” in CA is not a flex. It gives credence to claims of election fraud. Surely you must understand this. What are you doing to fix the problem?
Here’s what one Signal message uncovered.
I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.
The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of.
The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests.
Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact.
She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer.
Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers.
Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.”
Same account. Uber rides. Cumbia dance classes. A cafe called Pika’s Fika.
Protest donations and personal spending. One feed. No separation.
So who pays Jenny Garcia?
She holds three titles at three organizations.
Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded.
AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K.
Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid.
Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody.
More coming.
🚨MARICOPA COUNTY ALERT —
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors appears to be attempting to undermine a court order, usurp Recorder Justin Heap’s authority, and keep voters in the dark about a faster way to vote.
AFL’s letter exposes what’s happening.
And it’s explosive.
More than 16 months ago Gavin Newsom promised $2.5 BILLION to victims of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires.
More than 75% of the funds of bill ABX14 have not been released to victims and are being squandered and misappropriated by government agencies.
This is criminal.
So @HantsPolice laughed as Henry Nowak was dying, they took his and his dad's phones to search for "racism" in a sickening attempt to justify his murder!
This is why Chuck Schumer was so adamant about forcing ICE officers to not wear masks--so left-wing street militias could target officers and their families.
Every single one of these rioters should face the full force of the law.