‘Ballot Harvesting,’ California Dems’ Latest Election Stealing Tool Scott Morefield Posted: Dec 03, 2018 12:01 AM In 2016, California took yet another significant step in its decades-long quest to become the world’s largest banana republic when then-Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1921, a then-barely-noticed revision to the state’s vote-by-mail procedures. The change was a small but significant one. California, in its infinite wisdom, decided to make the practice of “ballot harvesting” legal. Thus, instead of only relatives or those living in the same household being allowed to legally collect and turn in absentee ballots for voters - as was previously the law - any “third party” can do it, including activist groups, Democratic operatives, or street-corner panhandlers. As a ‘service to voters,’ don’tcha know. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong? The answer is not much ... not if you’re a Democrat that is. Figuring out new and creative ways to steal elections being their specialty and all, Democrats knew what they were doing, and even a few conservatives saw this bill’s consequences coming from a mile away. “AB 1921 would allow anybody to walk into an elections office and hand over truckloads of vote by mail envelopes with ballots inside, no questions asked, no verified records kept,” a group opposed to the bill wrote before its passage. “It amounts to an open invitation to large-scale vote buying, voter coercion, ‘granny farming,’ and automated forgery. AB 1921 solves no problem that a simple stamp can’t solve.” And so, as the polls closed on election day, no less than six California Republican House candidates - including Representatives Dana Rohrabacher, Steve Knight, and Mimi Walters - were ahead in their respective races, some comfortably enough to declare victory and move on with plans for the next Congressional term. However, as absentee and provisional ballot results rolled in over the next few days and weeks, the vast majority of which predictably favored Democrats, their Democratic opponents managed to ‘find’ enough votes to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In Orange County alone, 250,000 such ballots were collected, resulting in a total Democratic sweep, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The statewide results even drew the attention of the normally squishy soon-to-be former House Speaker Paul Ryan. “California just defies logic to me,” Ryan told attendees at a Washington Post live event. “We were only down 26 seats the night of the election, and three weeks later, we lost basically every California contested race. This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.” Allow me to explain, Mr. Soon-To-Be Former Speaker. “Ballot harvesting” is yet another tactic Democrats are using to cheat their way to electoral victory, because cheating is what they do best. Ryan, true to form, refrained from directly accusing Democrats of anything nefarious, because ‘civility’ and whatnot, but the fact remains that putting systems in place that allow the ability to cheat with a low likelihood of getting caught, then turning a blind eye to it when it actually happens, is actually, well, cheating. So why not call a spade a spade? Consider “Lulu,” who was recorded in October trying to “harvest” what she thought was a Democratic voter’s ballot in Rep. Knight’s district. It’s a “new service,” Lulu told the skeptical lady, for “like, people who are supporting the Democratic party.” Color me shocked. And it’s not like they’re even trying to hide it. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: “We beat Republicans on the ground, fair and square,” said Katie Merrill, a Democratic consultant deeply involved in November campaigns. “Many of the field plans included (ballot harvesting) as an option to deliver voters or their ballots” to the polls. Those efforts involved identifying voters who might support Democratic candidates and ignoring those who wouldn’t. In one Orange County household, for example, both the husband and wife were longtime Republicans, said Dale Neugebauer, a veteran Republican consultant. Democratic volunteers came by the house four times, each time asking to speak only with their 18-year-old daughter, a no-party-preference voter, and asking if she wanted them to pick up her signed and completed ballot. That’s a perfect example of the “thorough and disciplined” ground game the Democrats used, said Merrill. “We were not wasting time talking to people who weren’t going to vote for Democrats,” she said. Imagine the ramifications, or the ‘possibilities’ if you’re a Dem. What happens if, for example, Lulu’s next house visit has a “Make America Great Again” flag planted in the front yard? Could Lulu go there, pretend to be a Republican, then toss the completed ballot in the trash on the way to Ben & Jerry’s? Of course she could, and the likelihood of getting caught would be next to zero. Could she then go to someone’s home who had no intention of voting, then ‘convince’ them to vote Democrat and give their ballot to her or else their next social security check won’t be coming? Again, yes she could. Or maybe a union boss asks the folks under his charge to become permanent “vote-by-mail” voters so, you know, he can keep them ‘informed’ on the issues. Or maybe a partisan nursing home administrator ‘helpfully’ collects the ballots of her residents only to shred those from all the guys wearing the Vietnam Veteran hats. I could go on and on, but you get the point. It’s not that voting should be difficult, but at the same time it should be secret, transparent, and require a basic investment in time, becoming informed, and properly identifying oneself as an American citizen eligible for the right. The numerous ways California has sought to make the electoral process the ease-equivalent of an America’s Got Talent contest has opened the door to endless forms of fraud. But California Democrats don’t care, because they know that if there’s any cheating to be done it’ll be done mostly by liberals - and to them, apparently, all is fair in love, war, and politics. https://townhall.com/columnists/sco...a-dems-latest-election-stealing-tool-n2536860
The original intent of allowing others to collect ballots was good - it was to get the ballots collected from elderly or shut-in individuals. As explained in an article I posted in another thread traditionally ballot collection primarily was used to collect ballots from black voters (it was done by their churches, etc.) or from people in who lived in very remote areas. Then the political parties and operatives got involved - originally they did "ballot harvesting" with good intentions going out to homes of those who are likely to support them to offer any needed assistance with their mail-in ballots. In recent years ballot harvesting has turned into a scheme used by political operatives from both parties to undermine the integrity of our elections. They go out and collect all the mail-in ballots they can... claiming they are authorized to deliver them to the elections office. The collected mail-in ballots supporting the other party are tossed, any undecided voters are pushed to fill out their ballots for your party, any incomplete ballots are filled in supporting your party after the fact (there seem to be many of these instances), and any complete ballots supporting your candidate are delivered to the election office. Most states provide lists of people who received mail-in ballots making this scheme easy to achieve by paying people low amounts of money to go door-to-door. In the same way that something is clearly astray in the 9th District in North Carolina -- it is obvious that something is wrong in the California races that must be properly investigated. Congress should refuse to seat any of the California House candidates from California districts with questionable results until a full investigation is completed.
This is one way. I think the bigger fraud is illegals and minors voting in US elections. It was on National TV. The night of the midterm elections in California, there were still long lines of minors mostly lined up to register and vote on the same day! A young girl said what was happening in the country was wrong. There is a good chance she is also, an illegal. DMV registered hundreds of thousands of illegals to vote and said it was a mistake. I did not see any efforts to exclude those people from voting! And if they can do this in California, they can do this in Florida or any other state! We really need to clean the voting rolls of dead people and illegals for all 50 states!
Pelosi has already raised the threat of not seating the one republican who won a close race, the one from NC. The dems are never going to refuse to seat one of their own. They have a guy who is now pretty senior, Alycee Hastings, who was impeached from a federal judgeship for bribery. That is just how low the bar is for black dems. The republicans of course are far too cucked to refuse to seat a dem, particularly if there is some claim of racism involved. They would far rather lose the election.