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.
The ‘Magical Mail-in Ballots’ creation project began when Spencer released this 15M view banger…the Communists knew they were going to lose…
NO ONE BELIEVES that Nithya Raman won…
@GOP_is_Gutless The Blazing Bagel did a great business and their bagel sandwiches were not cheap. I was quite surprised they didn't make it - but then again, there are so many smaller businesses that can't survive regulations, high labor costs and taxation in King County.
Get it together, Katie. @MayorofSeattle
You are the most small-ball, underprepared, underskilled, and un-visionary Seattle mayor in my lifetime. In the period of one of the biggest tectonic economic shifts in history -- the rise of industrialized, agentic AI -- you seem only capable of eke'ing out 75 portable shelters, 4 public toilets, and turning on and off some cctv cameras.
You have the command of 14,000 Seattle city employees and this is all you are capable of? This isn't a middle school student body leadership class.
This region has been blessed with two of the largest cloud/AI companies in the world, a world-class university and research center, the biggest wireless telecom operator in the US, a top notch cancer institute, and numerous other heavy-weight players in the modern economy.
You're not tapping into any of it.
You are screwing around while the world passes us by. We are bleeding wealth and talent.
Get it together, Katie.
@Douggybk@rha_sharon@MrPitbull07 Dennis Miller knew. The media scoffing at Stockdale's debate performance changed the trajectory of his comedy - and career.
Give me a break. I worked at Viacom/CBS (now Paramount) for over a decade. Of course, it was +90% Democrats.
Everyone knows this. Everyone.
And newsrooms in particular vote Democrat to a higher degree than Berkeley, California.
And you know what? Fine. I have lots of friends with whom I disagree from my time there. It was a great place, actually.
To act as if this claim about bias is controversial, let alone inaccurate, shows that he’s either a liar, an imbecile, or so deeply incurious and tunnel-visioned that you don’t belong anywhere near any job involving information discernment.
But he’s got that familiar anchor voice, so we’re supposed to act like he’s not being a complete clown. Give me a break. You people are a mess.
This week Moby showed how to change the world with a single act of defiance.
Amazing bravery, nothing will ever be the same after he put his middle finder up to a sign. Stunning and brave.
One of the coolest things I’ve learned at Normandy is about Lt. Col. Robert “Bull” Wolverton, commander of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, who said to his men before their jump 🪂:
Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us.
And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask his blessing in what we are about to do.
God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy.
We do not join the battle afraid.
We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.
We do not know or seek what our fate will be.
We ask only this, that if die we must, that we die as men would die, without complaining, without pleading and safe in the feeling that we have done our best for what we believed was right.
Oh Lord, protect our loved ones and be near us in the fire ahead and with us now as we pray to you.
#LestWeForget
@choeshow Spencer Pratt has made the well-oiled socialist axiom that housing costs cause homelessness is completely indefensible and now everyone knows it......