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Accountability Institute Research Director Eric Eggers, author of Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal
the Next Election, says it is “fair
to assume” that many illegal aliens will receive mail-in ballots in California
for the 2020 election thanks to a plan by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
In an exclusive interview with
SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Tonight, Eggers said California’s automatic voter registration
coupled with providing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens opens its elections
to a host of fraud.
That fraud, Eggers expects, will be
exacerbated by Newsom’s statewide mail-in voting plan for the 2020 election.
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“This is really where the left shows a level of hypocrisy, which
they’re not regularly held to account,” Eggers said. “What if the ballots go to
illegal immigrants that willingly or unwillingly ended up on the voter rolls
and maybe they just don’t even know they’re not supposed to be casting ballots?
Because remember, elsewhere in California and elsewhere nationally, it is legal
for noncitizens to vote in certain local elections.”
“Basically, what you’ve got is this hodgepodge of a lack of
oversight, lacks regulation, and confusion by the general public,” Eggers said.
“And oh, by the way, there’s a global pandemic, so many people are focused on
other things at the moment. And so … here come all the ballots, and yes, many
of the people that will get the ballots will be legal voters, but many of those
ballots will end up somewhere other than in the hands of legal [voters], and
that’s exactly where the recipe for fraud can occur.”
“The only person standing in between a noncitizen or an illegal
alien just getting their driver’s license and the voter rolls is a DMV
employee,” Eggers said. “You’ve got these people … often times are confused or
coerced by political operatives and told to register to vote. … The DMV
officials are prohibited by law from giving real guidance on should you check
the box and register to vote or not.”
“You’ve got this system where you know you’ve got over a million
illegal immigrants in California that have driver’s licenses,” Eggers
continued. “I think it’s fair to assume that a good number of those
inadvertently or intentionally ended up on the voter rolls, and those people
are about to be receiving a mail-in ballot.”
Eggers noted that Los Angeles County, California, was found to
have about 1.5 million more registered voters on its voter rolls than eligible
voting-age citizens. About 348 counties in the U.S. have more registered voters
on their voter rolls than even possible.
Likewise, California has previously had a voter registration
rate of over 100 percent, indicating more registered voters on voter rolls than
those eligible to vote in the state.
Statistics cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, Eggers said, reveal
that about 1-in-8 voter registrations, or 24 million, are significantly flawed.
Under a mail-in voting system, every one of those flawed voter registrations
would receive ballots.
As Newsom suspends in-person voting
for the 2020 election, Eggers said the state will still allow ballot harvesting — the process where political operatives can collect
voters’ ballots and deliver them to polling stations.
Eggers said California’s ballot harvesting helped flip seven
congressional seats in 2018 from Republican to Democrat in and around the Los
Angeles area.
“We haven’t suspended [ballot harvesting] in the name of
safety,” Eggers said.
“We’re being told to stay home. … We can’t go out and do many of
the most basic functions of American life but we can sure send these
asymptomatic carriers to the elderly and anybody else’s house they want to
collect a ballot and drop it off,” Eggers said.
Eggers said Republican lawmakers must be on the side of security
and election integrity if they are going to take on mail-in voting and the
widespread potential for voter fraud.
“Republicans absolutely do not want to be on the side of ‘you
have to risk your health to vote.’ … They shouldn’t be anti-access. They should
be pro-security and pro-election integrity,” Eggers said. “The Democrats don’t
appear to be overly worried about it.”
In the last four election
cycles, 28.4 million mail-in ballots have gone missing. In the 2016 and 2018
elections, about 16.4 million mail-in ballots went missing.
Recent data has not shown a
compelling public health justification for vote-by-mail. Wisconsin is
one of the only U.S. states that held its primary election with in-person voting after the
nation’s coronavirus lockdowns began. Only a few dozen people at maximum were
confirmed to have contracted the virus after participating either as voters or
poll workers, and none of those cases were fatal. Out of the 413,000
participants, that equals an infection rate below two-hundredths of one
percent. Just days later, South Korea held national elections, which did not result in any new
coronavirus cases.
California:
Gavin Newsom Orders Vote-by-Mail for November ElectionAugustin Paullier/AFP
8 May 202033641
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California
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday signed an executive order permitting all
registered voters in the Golden State to vote by mail in the upcoming
presidential election, citing concerns stemming from the Chinese coronavirus
pandemic.
“I signed an executive order that will allow every registered
voter in California to receive a mail-in ballot,” Newsom said. “That
mail-in ballot is important but it’s not an exclusive substitute to physical
locations.”
“People that are otherwise not familiar with mail-in ballots,
are uncomfortable with them, may have disabilities, may have other issues that
may preclude that as an appropriate option, we still want to have the
appropriate number of physical sites for people to vote as well,” the governor
added.
WATCH: Gov. Gavin
Newsom signed an executive order to allow all registered voters in California
the ability to vote by mail for the November election.
An "appropriate" number of physical locations to vote at will still be available. http://on.nbc7.com/5WD9uKg
An "appropriate" number of physical locations to vote at will still be available. http://on.nbc7.com/5WD9uKg
Newsom said while offering voters
the chance to vote by mail, he is committed to providing the ability to
vote at a physical location on election day.
“There’s a lot of concern and
excitement around this November’s election in terms of making sure that you can
conduct yourself in a safe way and to make sure your health is protected and to
make sure we are reaching out to all registered, eligible voters,”
the governor stated. “And giving them the opportunity, giving them
the choice not to feel like they have to go into a concentrated, dense environment
where their health may be at risk but provide an additional asset and
additional resources by way of voting by mail.”
In a statement to CNN,
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh slammed the move
by Newsom, calling it a “thinly-veiled political tactic” to “undermine”
election security.
JUST IN: the @realDonaldTrump campaign has responded to this news out of California..
Spox @TimMurtaugh tells @CNN said this move will “undermine election security”.
Full statement:
via @DJJudd https://twitter.com/CASOSvote/status/1258843639033151488 …
Full statement:
via @DJJudd https://twitter.com/CASOSvote/status/1258843639033151488 …
Newsom’s
order comes as Democrats across the country are pushing efforts to allow voters
to vote-by-mail in the 2020 election, despite concerns of potential voter
fraud. On Wednesday, Reps. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI)
went as far as to call for vote-by-mail to be permitted beyond
the election.
“If
we don’t act fast, we will jeopardize participation in what may be the most
important election of our lifetime. People will stay home. Disproportionately,
those people will be of color, who live in neighborhoods most likely to lose
polling locations,” the Democrat lawmakers wrote in an op-ed for The Hill. “They’ll be
students, single parents, and low-wage workers, who can’t put their lives on
hold to go vote. They’ll be seniors and medically-vulnerable patients, who
would be literally risking their lives just to cast their ballots. So a
privileged few will get to decide our country’s trajectory while the people
most impacted by this crisis are forced to forfeit their voice.”
Recent
data has not shown a compelling public health justification for
vote-by-mail. Wisconsin is one
of the only U.S. states that held its primary election with in-person voting
after the coronavirus lockdown began. Only a few dozen people at maximum were
confirmed to have contracted the virus after participating either as voters or
poll workers, and none of those cases were fatal. Out of the 413,000
participants, that equals an infection rate below two-hundredths of one
percent. Just days later, South Korea held national
elections which did not result in any new coronavirus cases.
California
Wants to Secede? Let's Help Them!
California
is a part of America. But it’s no longer American. It is a foreign state. It is
a fugitive state. The U.S. Constitution and the rule of law no longer apply in
California. Call it, “The People’s Socialist Republic of California.” It’s a
state without a country. But it’s certainly no longer American in any
way.
Liberals
in California want to secede. They are trying to put it on the ballot. They
call it “Calexit.” I say, “Glory Hallelujah." Let’s help make it
happen. I propose 63 million Trump voters join the team. Let's work 24/7 to
turn their dream into a reality!
Millions
of illegal aliens live in California; drive in California with official
state-issued drivers’ licenses; and of course, use those licenses to vote in
California. Millions. That’s precisely how Hillary won
California by over 4 million votes.
California
supports illegal aliens over legal, law-abiding American citizens. They support
illegals getting free college tuition, while children of native-born Americans
pay full fare. They support illegals over police and ICE. Many liberals in
California want to abolish ICE. They want no borders and no immigration
law.
The
Attorney General of California has warned any business owner who cooperates
with ICE will face prosecution by the state of California. You
heard correctly. California will put the business owner in prison, for
cooperating with federal law, to protect the criminal breaking the law.
The Mayor
of Oakland famously played Paul Revere to warn illegal felons “ICE is coming.
ICE is coming.” The Feds report over 800 felons evaded arrest because of that
stunt. How many legal, law-abiding, native-born Americans will be robbed,
raped, or murdered in the coming weeks because of that act of sedition?
A
California judge just sided with the ACLU and barred LA County from enforcing
gang restrictions that dramatically lowered crime. California has once again
sided with hoodlums and gang-bangers over the law-abiding taxpayers.
In
Oakland, a coffee shop prohibits employees from serving police, in order to
create a “safe space” for their customers. Californians hate and distrust
police more than illegal felons and thugs who speak no English and wear gang tattoos. Really.
All of
this is sheer madness. But California has taken it to a whole new level.
Just this
week the California Senate appointed the first-ever illegal alien to an
official statewide post. Lizbeth Mateo, a 33-year old illegal alien-turned-attorney,
will serve on the official state committee that doles out money to illegals
attending college. In California, illegals now decide how taxpayer money is
spent.
President
Trump loves to brand (see "Crooked Hillary"). Let’s brand California.
It’s not a “Sanctuary State.” It’s a “Fugitive State.” It’s a place that
chooses to let felons and fugitives run free. It’s a place where the rights of
criminals are far more important than protecting legal, law-abiding American
citizens who pay taxes. We are the second class citizens in California.
Here’s
the way to fix the problem. Liberal Californians want to secede. I'm joining
the movement. How about you?
Conservatives
should beg California to secede. We should make it easy for them. We should
help pay for it. Pass the hat. Every conservative should chip in $20. I’ll
throw $1000 to get the ball rolling.
Just
think of elections. Without California, Trump and all future Republican
presidential candidates would win, without breaking a sweat. Without
California, we’d easily win the popular vote. And we'd win the electoral vote
by a landslide.
Next
think of Congress. California has 53 House seats. Democrats lead 39-14, for a
net gain of 25 seats. Send California packing and the GOP gains a 25 House seat
lead. We would dominate the House for decades to come.
And of
course, the GOP would gain an automatic two seats in the Senate through the
subtraction of California. As it stands now, those two U.S. Senate seats are
deep blue Democrat forever. But if California secedes a 51-49 GOP lead
instantly moves to 51-47.
If 63
million Trump voters just gave an average of $20 each to the "Calexit
movement" that’s over $1.2 billion dollars. That’s enough money to help
California secede, with enough left over as a down payment on building a wall…
with California.
January 6, 2019
California admits it has no idea
whether non-citizens voted in last primary
After a hard-fought battle to obtain records by the
Sacramento Bee, we now learn that California's electoral officials are
admitting that they have no idea how many illegals and other non-citizens
voted in the last primary, based on the state's motor-voter registration, which
has been shown to have registered thousands of non-citizen voters. The
Bee reports:
California officials still can’t say whether non-citizens voted in
the June 2018 primary because a confusing government questionnaire about
eligibility was created in a way that prevents a direct answer on citizenship.
Apparently, tens of thousands of foreign nationals and other
ineligible voters, maybe 16 year olds, got registered
to vote at the DMV when they applied for
their drivers licenses whether they asked for it or not.
Investigators can see that people marked themselves as ineligible
to vote or declined to answer eligibility questions, but they can’t tell
why.
“We can’t assume why they declined to answer eligibility questions
or why they said they were not eligible,” the Secretary of State’s Office wrote
in an internal memo on Oct. 8, 2018.
That email and other documents The Sacramento Bee obtained through
the Public Records Act shed light on why the Secretary of State has been unable
to say clearly whether non-citizens voted last year. The
Bee filed a legal complaint for
the records when the Secretary of State initially withheld most of them.
The email shows that, for months, California officials have been
examining whether non-citizens voted last year. On Thursday, Secretary of State
Alex Padilla confirmed for the first time that his office has an active
internal investigation into the matter.
“The Secretary of State’s office does not comment on the details
of ongoing investigations,” the office said in a statement. “Determining
whether ineligible individuals who were erroneously registered to vote by the
DMV cast ballots requires a complete review. The Secretary of State’s office is
doing its due diligence by conducting a thorough investigation.”
Spokesmen for the office declined to say how the department could
otherwise determine citizenship of those registered.
This doesn't even include the undoubtedly significant numbers of
voters who answered that they were eligible to vote when they were not. Could
that have happened when the ballot-harvestors were out patrolling illegal
immigrant neighborhoods in search of votes? At a minimum, it most
certainly was possible, especially, since claims to voter-eligibility on
drivers license forms are never checked in California (it's the honor
system), according to voter-integrity activists. It also doesn't help that
California sneakily had residents sign to certify on their yellow mail-in
ballots that they were California residents(rather
than voting-eligible citizens) so as to prevent for illegals any potential
perjury charges in addition to vote-fraud charges.
If California has no idea who's a citizen, and has resisted every
effort out there to get that information (it has defied cooperation with
President Trump's electoral integrity commission), well, then what we can
conclude is that they don't want to know if a non-citizen is voting and now the
word is out that they don't. Apparently, Democratic interests in 'counting all
the ballots' as they say, means counting illegal ones, too.
They don't know, they don't want to know, and they aren't about
to clean this up. Keep after them, Sacramento Bee. In this case, the
Bee is a newspaper that's doing its actual job.
January 6, 2019
Ballot-harvesting gets just a little harder in California, thanks
to Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch has forced the state of California and Los Angeles
county to end its practice of keeping 'inactive' voters on the voter rolls as
is required by federal law. Here's the news
from the legal watchdog:
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it
signed a settlement
agreement with the State of
California and County of Los Angeles under which they will begin the process of
removing from their voter registration rolls as many as 1.5 million inactive
registered names that may be invalid. These removals are required by the
National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
The NVRA is a federal law requiring the removal of inactive
registrations from the voter rolls after two general federal elections
(encompassing from 2 to 4 years). Inactive voter registrations belong, for the
most part, to voters who have moved to another county or state or have passed
away.
Los Angeles County has over 10 million residents, more than the
populations of 41 of the 50 United States. California is America’s largest
state, with almost 40 million residents.
The state of California, run completely by Democrats, of course,
resisted this (at least until the midterm was over). They decided that
cleaning up inactive voters from the rolls wasn't in their interest and federal
laws were for other states, little states. And as a result, nearly a quarter of
California's counties had more voters registered than actual eligible voters.
And surprise, surprise, the state has suddenly turned solid blue.
L.A. county's approximately 1.5 million inactive voters on
those rolls (112% of age-eligible citizens alone) had been perfect fodder
for ballot-harvestors, not this last time at midterms (all of the Democratic
ballots harvested in the last midterm have made their voters active
voters), but for upcoming elections. That rich bank of potential
Democratic votes from ballot-harvesting is now gone with this Judicial Watch
agreement.
Ballot-harvesting is a disturbing phenomenon so prone to abuse
it's illegal in most states. In California, where it's not, Democratic
operatives selectively pay visits to the homes of indifferent voters who don't
want to go to the polls or mail in their ballots, engage those voters, and
then "help" them fill out their ballots in the way Democrats
want. That's why conservative areas such as Orange County were suddenly flipped
blue and popular candidates such as Young Kim, who had been winning by large
margins on election night - suddenly saw their results flipped. Democrats
learned that by extending the election count for weeks, turning in harvested
ballot after harvested ballot, they could win any election.
But the harvest had been incomplete, and with
many inactive voters, Democrats would need that bank of more potential
votes, which likely explains why California's Democrats resisted any cleanup of
voter rolls. California may have mailed these people ballots whether they
liked it or not or asked for it or not, as they did with all of us, and well,
Democratic ballot-harvestors could have easily gotten hold of those
unasked for ballots in the mailboxes of dead, moved-away, or
incapacitated voters and saw to it that they somehow got cast.
(Judicial Watch is investigating that one, too.)
The state's chief vote counter, Secretary of State Alex Padilla,
insists that not a single voter will be disenfranchised, given all his 'safeguards.' His official plan is to mail in a confirmation form to inactive
voters and strike their names if they don't respond, but somehow, I suspect the
ballot-harvestors will be paying visits to these inactive residents,
who may be indifferent and incapacitated voters, and somehow will get
them to mail those forms in, too, thereby subverting the process.
That said, Judicial Watch's victory is a great one and frees them
up to focus on other areas of abuse that are rife in California, such as
non-citizen registrations (the state still
says it has no idea how many there are),
illegal immigrant votes already cast, ballot harvestors using coercion,
foreign ballot-harvestors, gerrymandering, straight out fraud, and the whole cavalcade of
Democrat tricks that have disenfranchised conservative voters in the
state.
It's a welcome glimmer of light from a one-party state.
Bienvenidos a Mexico: California's
ballot-harvesting, sure enough, is borrowed from Mexico
In an extraordinary investigative piece on how ballot-harvesting
works by Steve Miller, published on Real Clear Investigations, we learn an
amazing amount of information about how ballot-harvesting works and why it's so
closely connected to election fraud, skewing elections in directions they
normally wouldn't go. Themust-read
piece is focused on how
Texas is dealing with the seedy issue, enforcing the law, prosecuting more
than twice as many cases of
electoral fraud as California, even hampered as Texas is by weak penalties for
violators. But a little detail stands out much deeper into the piece:
Ballot-harvesting, which is at the root of considerable fraud of all kinds, is
a practice specifically borrowed from Latin America, with a very
impressive Latino analyst, K.B. Forbes,
who has electoral experience in both countries, citing Mexico. Here's the
passage:
The practice has its roots in Latin America, said K.B. Forbes, a
political consultant and Hispanic activist who has served as an elections
observer in Sonora, Mexico. “In the Latin culture, they have colonias, which is
‘little colony,’ literally,” he said. “In these, they sometimes have the
equivalent of a precinct boss, and that’s how people move up. The
[politiqueras] deliver the vote and when the candidate moves in, the theory is
that they get a good post inside the government.”
That brings up California, where ballot-harvesting is perfectly
legal, and normal voters have to wonder how the heck that happened.
Ballot-harvesting has been a disaster for Republicans in California, with all
conservatives now shut out from any representation in once-red Orange County.
Most congressional elections there showed Republican candidates in the lead on
election night in the last midterm, but all of them flipped to Democrats as the
Democrat-led ballot-harvesting brought in votes and votes and votes from
supposed precincts, harvested by their political operatives, until the result
went the other way. (This by the way, didn't happen in districts where
Democrats held a small lead, nothing flipped in their cases and ballots did not
keep rolling in).
If ballot harvesting is a practice imported from Mexican politics,
what does that say about California politics, whose legislators would embrace
Mexican electoral practices over the U.S. standard? As I mentioned earlier,
Mexico has been called "a
perfect dicatorship" by none other
than Nobel Prize-winning literary lion Mario Vargas Llosa, owing to the
continuous power of the Mexican Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (or
P.R.I.), which up under a decade or two ago, had a hammerlock monopoly on
Mexican politics, winning every single election in what was then a one-party
state. That's a system so bad people emigrated illegally from that country to
get away from it. Now, the cultural practice is right there waiting for them in
California, albeit, virtually nowhere else.
And like the P.R.I.'s Mexican electoral practice of
ballot-harvesting, it's noteworthy that the ruling Democrats of California also
are famous for doling out the goodies to the loyal voters. They've promised
amazing things to California's illegal immigrant population, with the latest
thing free heath care. California's insurance commissioner, the respected
non-partisan Steve Poizner, was, conveniently, ballot-harvested out of office
after an election-night lead several days after midterm by utterly leftist
Democrat Ricardo Lara who openly declared his support and big plans for free
health care for illegals. He's tried it before in the legislator and now he's
going to do it this time through the executive. California's incoming governor,
of course, is all in for the goody-slinging. In Mexico, they used to pass out
bags of beans for votes. In California, the prizes are considerably higher, and
they go well beyond free health care. I've already noted the weird
similarities to how California is run, and P.R.I-style politics here.
Any wonder California is going way out of its way to welcome
illegal immigrants? "You're all welcome here," as Gov. Jerry Brown
famously said. California already hosts a quarter of the nation's illegals, and
with middle class families now moving out due to high living costs and punitive
taxation, the California P.R.I. likes new bodies coming in who have a lot of
needs, which keeps the congressional seats numerous and the federal funds
flowing.
It all makes a normal person wonder about the weird closeness of
California officials and their Mexican counterparts, too. Newsom has already
paid a visit to Mexico to discuss the caravan with the Mexican government in
Mexico City (not Tijuana, where he would have gotten a earful from the
generally conservative and more dissident-oriented Tijuana locals), and he has
declared he plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the U.S. border. With
his party now embracing the P.R.I's style of governance and having some
unnaturally close ties to Mexican officials (I've seen it myself at Los Angeles
functions as a guest of the Mexican government), it looks like a growing merger
of Mexican and California politics.
Mexico knows how bad the system is, and its citizens did rebel
against it with a Trump-like leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador,
who won on a vow to end corruption. One can safely take that as a sign that
Mexicans are trying to move away from that kind of politics, which of course
would include ballot harvesting. California, on the other hand, is moving
toward it, embracing what Mexico is trying to reject. That speaks pretty poorly
for the sorry state of affairs in California. It's only great for the rulers
and those they patronize, until the money runs out.
Until then, clarification about California's Mexico
borrowings need to stand as an incentive to other states about what not to do.
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