Ballot Harvesting in California

@APACHERAT

Blame the National Republican Party organizations

that have abdicated California.


BTW I believed Rohrabacher was great V.P. material and even
if he could not convert California to "red", would at least require more
Democratic Party resources to secure the Greatest State.

Anaheim, California.
Home of The Lincoln Club
a most Republican organization
now in "Blue Country".

Blame the National Republican Party organizations.

 

Few people noticed when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the changes in AB1921 into law two years ago. In the past, California allowed only relatives or people living in the same household to drop off mail ballots for another voter. The new law allowed anyone, even a paid political campaign worker, to collect and return ballots — “harvesting” them, in political slang...




In Orange County alone, where every House seat went Democratic, “the number of Election Day vote-by-mail dropoffs was unprecedented — over 250,000,” Fred Whitaker, chairman of the county Republican Party, said in a note to supporters. “This is a direct result of ballot harvesting allowed under California law for the first time. That directly caused the switch from being ahead on election night to losing two weeks later.”


Some national Republicans expressed befuddlement with what was happening to their party in California. In an interview with the Washington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin called California’s election system “really bizarre” and said he couldn’t even begin to understand what ballot harvesting is.

“We were only down 26 seats (nationally) the night of the election and three weeks later, we lost basically every California race,” he said. “Point being, when you have candidates that win the absentee ballot vote, win the day of the vote, and then lose three weeks later because of provisionals, that’s really bizarre.”

However, this was no spur-of-the-moment effort by the Democrats, said Shawn Steel, the California GOP’s delegate to the Republican National Committee.

“This was not done at the last minute,” he said. “It started the day after Jerry signed” the bill.


Rep. Jeff Denham of Turlock (Stanislaus County), one of the House Republicans who saw victory slowly turn to defeat after election day, agreed with Ryan Thursday that California’s count should go more quickly. “Counting ballots two weeks after the vote is something that Californians shouldn’t have to put up with,” he said.

Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, another Republican who lost his seat. Democrats had “a huge advantage by executing a plan to gather ballots from voters.”...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-late-votes-broke-big-for-13432727.php

 

The really bad part about this as you can easily change a vote by crossing out the original and remarking the ballot. That's legal in Washington anyway and I assume in California too.

 

YES DEAR

Still the National GOP organizations have abdicated investment in
The Greatest State of CALIFORNIA.

They assume California is Blue rather than investing in
what the Paul-s term, Blue Republicans.


Don't blame the Democrats for their tricks
Blame the GOP for turning a blind eye to it all,
as if they noticed.

Blame the National Republican Party for . . .


Moi

And too ​

 

Yup, I would support it. The best thing about communism and socialism is that when they are fully implemented they tend to kill tons of communist and socialist. California is dependent, not independent.

 

Your hyper-partisan hysteria aside, California ranks 39th in its dependency on the federal government.

Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, and Georgia rank, respectively, 3rd, 10th, 13th, 16th, and 24th.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

 

Yet California has giant homeless cities the size of many towns in those States. Democrats ignore them and send wefare to Palestine and Mexico

 

If that is what you need to pretend, that is what you will do.

In the meantime, regardless of whether many of them may have attempted to reject the US Constitution previously, far more federally-dependent states such as Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana will remain in the United States as well, even if such dependency is your criterion.

 

I doubt those States have homeless villages anywhere near the size of the ones like where I live.