{"id":2374515,"date":"2024-11-29T15:49:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-problems-with-californias-month-long-vote-counting-process\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:54:39","slug":"5-problems-with-californias-month-long-vote-counting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-problems-with-californias-month-long-vote-counting-process\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Problems With California&#8217;s Month-Long Vote Counting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-problems-with-californias-month-long-vote-counting-process%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2374515&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As of now, three House races remain to be decided: two in California and one in Iowa. Initially, \u2062Republican\u2064 candidates were leading in both California contests, but \u200btheir leads have diminished as more ballots were counted, raising concerns about California&#8217;s lengthy\u200d voting \u200cprocess. Incumbent \u200bRepublican Rep. John Duarte, who led by around 3,000 votes on Election Day, is now trailing Democrat\u200c Adam Gray by 182 votes. Similarly, Republican Rep. Michelle Steele, who had\u2063 an 11,000 \u200bvote lead over her Democrat opponent Derek Tran, is now behind by 36 votes and that margin continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights various problems with California&#8217;s \u200belection process, claiming it\u2063 poses\u200c opportunities for fraud. It \u2062discusses issues\u2063 such as \u200dthe lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-house-passes-omnibus-election-reform-bill\/\" title=\"Georgia House Passes Omnibus Election Reform Bill\">voter identification requirements<\/a>, automatic\u200d mail-in ballots sent to all active voters regardless\u2064 of requests, and a lenient signature matching process that \u200ballows discrepancies. Moreover, voters have ample time after Election Day to \u200dcorrect any issues with their ballots, raising further concerns about the \u2062integrity of the counting process. Despite assurances from\u200d some media outlets \u200bthat there is no evidence of fraud, the author contends\u2063 that the system is ripe for manipulation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As of today, there are three House races left to be called, two in California and one in Iowa. In both California races, Republicans were ahead on Election Day and the days immediately after. They&rsquo;ve since seen their leads evaporate as ballots continue to be counted and &ldquo;cured&rdquo; long after the polls closed, but the seemingly never-ending election is thanks to the state&rsquo;s near month-long questionable voting process that leaves plenty of room for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Republican Rep. John Duarte was up by approximately 3,000 votes on Election Day. Duarte has since seen his lead crumble as &ldquo;more ballots were counted in Merced County&rdquo; and Stanislaus County, leading to Democrat Adam Gray leading by 182 votes as of Tuesday night, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/gray-duarte-congressional-district-13-nov-26\/63026905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KCRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Republican Rep. Michelle Steele also now trails her Democrat opponent Derek Tran after a host of ballots were <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/election-results-2024-los-angeles-orange-county-derek-tran-holds-102-vote-lead-rep-michelle-steel-congressional-race\/15560190\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">counted<\/a> well after Election Day. On Nov. 6, Steele was leading Tran by more than 11,000 votes. But by Nov. 16, Steele was trailing Tran by 36 votes. That number has since grown.<\/p>\n<p>Convenient? You bet. <\/p>\n<p>But don&rsquo;t expect the mainstream media to question the process. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/california-vote-count-slow-doesnt-183909930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USA Today<\/a> rushed to claim that there&rsquo;s no evidence of fraud, reassuring readers that California&rsquo;s extended ballot-counting process is perfectly kosher.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is no evidence California&rsquo;s vote count is fraudulent,&rdquo; USA Today&rsquo;s &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; claims. &ldquo;Experts say the state&rsquo;s election laws result in any mail-in ballots, which take much longer to count.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But California&rsquo;s month-long election process is a fraudster&rsquo;s dream. <\/p>\n<p>The first problem is that the state prohibits localities from requiring voter identification for voters who show up to the polls in person on Election Day. When Huntington Beach residents voted to require voter ID, the state sued. Without voter ID, anyone can claim to be a voter and vote in that person&rsquo;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is that the state also automatically mails out ballots to every active voter &mdash; whether they request one or not. Voters have a full seven days <em>after<\/em> Election Day to send the ballots back.<\/p>\n<p>But yet another issue with these ballots is that they can be postmarked by Election Day, <em>or<\/em>, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/administration\/regulations\/current-regulations\/elections\/signature-verification-ballot-processing-and-ballot-counting-emergency-regulations#20991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state law<\/a>, if the mail-in ballot envelope is missing a postmark or there is &ldquo;no date stamp for receipt from a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">bona fide private mail delivery service<\/a>,&rdquo; the ballot will still be treated as valid so long as the voter dated the envelope &ldquo;or the envelope otherwise indicates that the ballot was executed on or before Election Day&rdquo; and conforms to other election code requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: A voter can lie about when they mailed their ballot back and there&rsquo;s a good chance it will still count. That&rsquo;s a glaring loophole begging to be exploited. <\/p>\n<p>The fourth issue is the signature matching game. California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/administration\/regulations\/current-regulations\/elections\/signature-verification-ballot-processing-and-ballot-counting-emergency-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election officials<\/a> do not require exact matches between the signatures on the ballot and voter records. In fact, election officials should presume the signatures are from the same voter, with excuses for any discrepancies including &ldquo;trembling or shaking&rdquo; hand, a voter&rsquo;s &ldquo;signature style&rdquo; having changed over time, or a voter writing &ldquo;in haste.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when there is a serious non-match or a signature is missing altogether?<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t worry, voters can just &ldquo;cure&rdquo; their ballots &mdash; which brings us to the fifth (and perhaps most glaring) issue. In other words, voters get <em>weeks<\/em> after Election Day to &ldquo;cure&rdquo; any issues with their ballot that would otherwise disqualify the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Voters whose <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC&amp;sectionNum=3019.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ballots are flagged by election officials<\/a> as having an issue are alerted either via mail, phone, or email and given the chance to fix the issues on their ballots. Voters have until December 1 to do so. Ballots that aren&rsquo;t &ldquo;cured&rdquo; are then rejected.<\/p>\n<p>And as The San Francisco Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/ballot-curing-christine-pelosi-california-19932744.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-this-pa-county-send-new-voting-van-to-targeted-dem-areas\/\" title=\"Will This PA County Send New Voting Van To &#039;Targeted&#039; Dem Areas?\">ballot curing period<\/a> has been extended this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thune-argues-gop-senate-campaigns-are-seeing-momentum-despite-being-outspent-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Thune argues GOP Senate campaigns are seeing \u2018momentum\u2019 despite being outspent - Washington Examiner\">election cycle &#038;ldquo<\/a>;thanks to a law passed in September&rdquo; that extended the deadline to certify the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-ga-counties-must-certify-even-non-sensical-election-results\/\" title=\"Judge: GA Counties Must Certify Even &#039;Non-Sensical&#039; Election Results\">election results &#038;mdash<\/a>; but only for &ldquo;this fall&rsquo;s election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The law &hellip; is aimed at allowing a longer period of time for volunteers to reach voters who need to verify their signatures or otherwise cure their ballots,&rdquo; The San Francisco Chronicle reports.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Democrat-led California, perhaps anticipating tight races, <a href=\"https:\/\/ace.yolocounty.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decided to<\/a> preemptively change the law temporarily so that parties could get ballots &ldquo;cured&rdquo; and up their vote count.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Nancy Pelosi&rsquo;s daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sfpelosi\/status\/1859048240458670389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christine<\/a> has been actively getting voters to cure their ballots, going so far as to &ldquo;stake out&rdquo; a voter in Modesto whose ballot needed curing, according to the San Francisco Chronicle report.<\/p>\n<p>And while California will try to claim the process takes longer because it&rsquo;s a larger state with millions of voters &mdash; states like Florida managed to count their votes and deliver the results <em>on<\/em> Election Day. So what&rsquo;s the deal with California&rsquo;s process that has conveniently flipped two key House seats in Democrats favor weeks <em>after<\/em> the election?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three House races remain uncalled: two in California and one in Iowa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2374516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1280px-Voting_United_States-e1732724706374.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4045,5521,36506,45717,40938],"class_list":["post-2374515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-california","tag-democracy","tag-election-process","tag-vote-counting","tag-voting-issues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1280px-Voting_United_States-e1732724706374.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374519,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374515\/revisions\/2374519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}