After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, there was a real fear that California would be invaded as well. Fortunately, a Japanese assault on the mainland never occurred, but over eight decades later, California has suffered a different sort of attack, the invasion of the ballot snatchers.
The California electoral process is a national embarrassment. Six days after the election, ballots are still being “counted,” the result of California law allowing ballots postmarked by Election Day to be accepted for another week.
In California, “county election offices must mail every registered voter a ballot starting no later than 29 days before an election.” Voters can go to the polls in person on Election Day or “mail in your ballot, return it in person at any drop box or voting site in your county by 8 p.m. on Election Day, or to your county election office.” To make matters worse, California does not require voter identification to register or cast a ballot.
A secure electoral process would require that only citizens be allowed to register to vote, and that only those citizens with photo identification be allowed to cast a ballot. These are the essential elements in the Save America Act, which has not passed the United States Senate due to opposition from RINOs and Democrats.
While those voting requirements are helpful, real election fraud occurs using mail-in ballots. As election expert Jay Valentine, Omega4America.com, states, “elections are stolen with mail-in ballots to eligible voters at ineligible addresses collected by NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and voted after the election for their candidate.”
According to Valentine, the real problem with elections is fraudulent addresses, not fraudulent voters. He believes that “90%” of election fraud can be eliminated by limiting “mail-in ballots to emergency situations” or authenticating requests for mail-in ballots by checking “against multiple other databases, so they are not going to ineligible, but real locations, collected by NGOs and voted.”
Valentine notes that no Secretary of State in the country is syncing their voter rolls on a weekly basis with property tax rolls or “with the official database of (the) U.S.P.S. zip codes or the database of electric utilities.”
Consequently, the voter data nationwide is outdated. Unfortunately, Washington, D.C., and eight states, including California, send ballots to all registered voters by mail.
Hopefully, the outrageous results in California will wake Americans up to the dangers of mail-in ballots. On Election Night, Spencer Pratt was comfortably in second place in the race for Mayor of Los Angeles. The incumbent Mayor, Karen Bass, had 38% of the vote, followed by Pratt at 28% and Councilwoman Nithya Raman at only 20%.
Raman was so far behind on Election Night that she cried and delivered a concession speech. Yet, as mail-in ballots continue to be counted, Pratt’s lead over Raman evaporated. In one of the latest reports on newly counted ballots, Raman received 40% of the vote, while Pratt received only 18%.
The same sort of process is occurring in the California Governor’s race as the third-place contender, Tom Steyer, is gaining on the Republican candidate, Steve Hilton, who is currently in second place.
Hilton blasted the election system in California as “absolutely shameful for our state.” He said, “Thanks to the Democrats in charge of our state, we have become a national and an international laughingstock.” Hilton pointed out that India “counts over 640 million votes in a day,” but “California cannot count less than 10 million votes in a month.”
If elected Governor of California, Hilton promised to crack down on ballot-mailing procedures and require that all mail-in ballots be received by Election Day.
Incredibly, the late-arriving ballots always favor the Democratic Party’s candidates. Republicans have lost congressional seats in California many times in recent years due to the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots.
Another factor contributing to fraud in California elections is the allowance of Election Day voter registration. To ensure proper voter verification, registration should be closed 30 days before the election. As former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) noted, it “helps the registrars to know who’s going to vote and the candidates.”
California also permits rampant ballot harvesting. It became legal in 2016 and allows a “third party” to collect ballots and return them to a “county elections official.” California is one of 35 states that allow ballot harvesting.
All the craziness in the California election is drawing the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice. Multiple investigations have been launched. Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said: “We will follow the evidence wherever it leads.” He promised to prosecute “any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent.”
McCarthy blames California’s electoral delays on Governor Gavin Newsom. He said, “When Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California, you knew who was elected in a day, to two days. Now it takes more than weeks, almost a month.”
Former California resident and owner of X, Elon Musk, posted, “When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.”
In California, the entire nation is witnessing how elections should not operate. Ideally, votes should be cast in person, on Election Day, with voter identification and on paper ballots. There should be no mail-in ballots except for members of the military, the elderly and sick who cannot vote in person, and other rare circumstances. All the mail-in ballots must be received by Election Day.
Hopefully, this issue will be resolved by the Supreme Court in the coming days. The case of Watson v. RNC is before the Supreme Court, and a decision is expected on whether mail-in ballots can be accepted after Election Day.
As the nation awaits the decision, we are witnessing the invasion of the ballot snatchers in California. Instead of a campy movie, this is a real-life horror show.
Our largest state has a voting process that is patently ridiculous, utterly corrupt, but brutally effective for the Democratic Party.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from 1-2 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is the President and General Manager of WGSO Radio, a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com.
