California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls
California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:
-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)
Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8
This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.
We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.
On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.
For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.
@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.
What are they afraid of?
I'm not the only one critical of California's month-long vote count. A Washington Post editorial calls it a "national embarrassment." The NY Times said our elections are in the "pre-telegraph era."
It's another example of our state government struggling with basic competence.
Here we go, the Los Angeles Times is admitting that yes, tens of thousands of mail in ballots did get processed for only Mayor Karen Bass and Nithya Raman but it was “a glitch”
They say the system just “glitched” for a minute and didn’t process any ballots for Spencer Pratt but really there were ballots for Spencer, they just didn’t get processed during the “glitch”
No, we don’t believe you. This is fraud and Democrats are cheating
“It was the result of a lag in an automated collection of the data in which there was one data collection that captured votes in a single batch of votes for Bass and Raman, and then about 1 minute later, the collection of the rest of that same batch of votes — Folks I spoke to also said there is no fraud. But again, there was no batch of votes without any Pratt votes. There was sort of a 1-minute variation between the upload of Bass and Raman votes and Pratt votes on some media websites.
Officials and others who have reviewed the data say that is not any proof of fraud. There was no fraud.”
Again, yeah right. We need a federal audit into California elections
This beautiful boxer is living in his own feces at @LACityPets@bestfriends shelter in South Los Angeles — euthanasias are up 75%. Where is the grand jury? Where is @MayorOfLA ? And @nithyavraman JUST visited a shelter for the first time.
Horrendous conditions.
As Lt. Governor I will create a special, focused unit to end this animal cruelty and ensure that no dog is ever treated like this again.
Join me at https://t.co/A4D0ncpVrl
We CAN and MUST rescue, foster, adopt, no-kill, and find loving homes for our dogs. It is not "compassionate" to leave them on the streets, or in these conditions.
🚨 Sen. Mike Lee CONFIRMS that JD Vance could take over John Thune's spot as Presiding Officer in the Senate:
"JD Vance can come to the Senate ANY TIME he wants & immediately assume the position in the Presiding Officer chair."
This needs to happen!
Yesterday ended up being a bit deflating, but I remain hopeful that Lucy will be home soon. My attorney actually told me on Thursday that Lucy may have been released as soon as that afternoon, but as Friday afternoon rolled into evening, I started to realize that they weren't going to let her out until Monday at the earliest.
It feels like they are just trying to twist the knife one last time. They may be the case, but I'm not completely sure. It could just be that government is doing what government does all the time: move at the glacial speed of bureaucracy.
That animal welfare check, however, seemed perfectly timed to send us a message - we may have won this round, but they aren't going to stop.
Using social media to expose their machinations to the light is good, but I plan to start taking concrete, legal steps to stop this bullying on Monday.
The law in this country should not be a tool to advance only the interests of the well-connected.
It's frustrating as we go into this weekend, but I look to Monday for good news.
Meanwhile, #SaveLucy is still trending.
Wildest takeaways from my time at the Ballot Processing Center today.
✍🏻 Signatures only need to be 40% accurate (!) this is the setting the machines are set at for LA County (called the ASV)
🗳️ The last two drops disproportionately supported Raman. Are those coming from specific neighborhoods since they’re such an anomaly? Or are the neighborhoods pretty spread out that you count from on a given day? “We’re not sure.”
💌 If you’re unable to sign, you can make a “mark” like a dot or slash instead of signing. A witness then signs below.
I asked them how they verify these signatures. Turns out, they simply don’t.
Well, you must check the witness signatures, right? “No, we don’t.”
So what if I stole a ballot, made a dash by the person’s name, and signed my name? “You shouldn’t do that, but in theory it would be counted,” they said.
How many of these “marked” ballots get in per election? “We don’t know,” they said.
Ripe for fraud, no?
California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED!
Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore.
Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots.
California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered.
Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election!