What does California have to hide?
After all, if the voting process were as fair, accurate and secure as Gov. Gavin Newsom and others have claimed, why not allow federal investigators to examine it?
The rest of the country is, understandably, alarmed as it watches results come in from the June 2 primary — not because of who qualified for the general election, but because of how they did so.
If California were a Third World country, the State Department would already have condemned its election as a subversion of democracy.
In the LA mayor’s race, Nithya Raman was so far behind on Election Night — about 8 points — that she broke down in tears.
And yet as more ballots came in, Raman overtook challenger Spencer Pratt, who had won the mayoral debate and dominated on social media.
Was Raman’s surge legit? Maybe.
At least one major poll had her in second place before the vote, and surprises aren’t unique to California.
Yet what is unique to California is a process that allows ballots to arrive up to a week after Election Day.
California also allows the bizarre practice of “ballot harvesting,” which effectively means partisan operatives can stuff the ballot box with unlimited numbers of mail-in ballots.
And as lead federal prosecutor Bill Essayli points out, California also allows residents to register to vote using a bizarre range of ID documents — including debit cards and prescription drug labels.
A recent lawsuit against the state claims there are 873,092 inactive voter registrations on the rolls.
In a state that automatically mails ballots to all registered voters — a change adopted during the pandemic, when Democrats claimed it was unsafe to go to a polling place — that creates lots of opportunity for mischief.
There are other vulnerabilities, too: Same-day registration; the ability to vote outside your polling place; loose signature standards; even a rule that requires officials to accept sample ballots, if they are submitted in place of real ones.
Voter ID? That’s strictly forbidden for now, thanks to a law signed by Newsom before the 2024 election.
Mail-in ballots have to be signed — but there’s no real enforcement or verification.
Newsom has a habit of signing laws to prevent transparency, right before elections. He did it this year, too, signing a law to prevent law enforcement from taking possession of voter rolls.
That looked quite suspicious — as did Newsom’s cryptic remark that Democrats had a “break glass” plan to keep a Republican from becoming governor.
So — open the books, governor. Prove that the critics really do have “California Derangement Syndrome.” Let the feds take a look at the voter rolls.
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