{"id":2498237,"date":"2025-10-13T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gerrymandering-scam-raises-ballot-integrity-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:23:48","slug":"california-gerrymandering-scam-raises-ballot-integrity-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gerrymandering-scam-raises-ballot-integrity-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gerrymandering Scam Raises Ballot Integrity Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fcalifornia-gerrymandering-scam-raises-ballot-integrity-concerns%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=2498237&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>The article highlights growing concerns among California voters about mail-in ballots related to Proposition 50, a controversial redistricting measure seen as a partisan gerrymander favoring Democrats. Incidents such as voters receiving multiple ballots and envelopes with holes that could expose voting choices have raised questions about election integrity. Officials downplay thes issues, emphasizing safeguards, but voters remain uneasy, viewing these problems as a &#8220;wake-up call.&#8221; The piece also references broader critiques of mass mail-in voting, citing cases of fraud in other states like New Jersey and Wisconsin, and warns that such practices can increase errors and undermine democracy. A coalition of 30 California district attorneys publicly opposes Proposition 50, arguing it dismantles fair redistricting reforms in favor of political power grabs. The article is authored by Matt Kittle, a seasoned investigative reporter.  <\/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>Surprise, surprise. California voters are raising concerns about the flood of mail-in ballots going out for the Golden State&rsquo;s leftist-led gerrymandering scam known as <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/California_Proposition_50,_Use_of_Legislative_Congressional_Redistricting_Map_Amendment_(2025)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proposition 50<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From troubling holes in voter envelopes to residents receiving multiple ballots ahead of next month&rsquo;s referendum, the election integrity questions only add more heat to a controversial ballot issue ironically known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/20\/opinion\/gavin-newsoms-gerrymandering-scheme-is-a-shameless-power-grab-at-the-expense-of-californians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Rigging Response Act<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Wake-up Call&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In Modesto, voter Kevin Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/local\/modesto\/norcal-extra-mail-ballots-for-redistricting-special-election\/103-93504e77-643e-4b0a-bd29-d7366ba20cc5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> ABC 10 that he found two mail-in ballots for Prop 50 in his mailbox last week. The envelopes, he said, appeared identical, bearing his name, address, and the same code numbers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, I was stunned,&rdquo; Scott told the news outlet. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m pretty upset that this happened.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>No need to worry, nothing to see here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stancounty.com\/news-room\/bios\/clerk-recorder.shtm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters Donna Linder<\/a> explained to ABC10. She said there are various reasons a so-called &ldquo;suspend and reissue&rdquo; order could be triggered. But Scott said none apply to his situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The concerned Northern California voter told the Sacramento station that he has completed and mailed in the first ballot he received, and he planned to shred the second one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want them in anybody else&rsquo;s hand,&rdquo; Scott said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Linder told ABC10 that the state&rsquo;s election system is set up to allow only one vote to be counted. But, as Scott noted, elections are prone to errors and his experience should be a &ldquo;wake-up call&rdquo; for California election officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m probably not the only one that got these&hellip; just beware, and it&rsquo;s just not right,&rdquo; he told ABC10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In Sacramento, voters have complained about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kyZFfkN7W_U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">holes in the envelopes<\/a> of their Prop 50 mail-in ballots. If positioned just right, the hole can be a window into how the individual voted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alan Wiggett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z23f_0-AC6M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> CBS News Sacramento that he&rsquo;s worried someone could tamper with his ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If someone were unscrupulous and didn&rsquo;t like how I voted, they could double mark it, which would invalidate my vote,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It makes it too easy for bad actors.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stancounty.com\/news-room\/bios\/clerk-recorder.shtm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sacramento Registrar<\/a> spokesman Ken Casparis shrugged off the concern, telling the news outlet it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;nonissue.&rdquo; He insists the envelope hole does not present an election integrity problem, and, in fact, serves a purpose. It helps verify when a ballot has been removed from the envelope and gives the visually impaired &ldquo;something to feel so they know where to sign their name,&rdquo; Casparis said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that voters should just fold the ballot in a way that their vote can&rsquo;t be seen through the envelope hole. CBS News Sacramento reports that Sacramento County election officials have received several calls and emails with similar concerns since the Proposition 50 ballots first started being mailed out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the news story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z23f_0-AC6M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted on YouTube<\/a> comes with the usual Disclaimer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/bipartisan-policy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bipartisan Policy Center<\/a>, which is anything but nonpartisan. The left-of-center think tank, which formerly promoted liberal energy policy, insists that &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/bipartisanpolicy.org\/report\/mail-voting-is-safe-secure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mail Voting is Safe and Secure.<\/a>&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not always.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;The Dangers of Mass Mail-In Voting&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Mass mail-in voting increases opportunities for error and fraud in states that do not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-rolls-group-gives-personal-data-to-politically-driven-organizations-report\/\" title=\"Report: ...r rolls group shares personal data with &#039;politi...y motivated&#039; organizations\">maintain clean voter rolls<\/a>. For instance, in the last two elections, there were reports from multiple states of individuals receiving multiple ballots at their address, ballots being delivered to addresses of people either deceased or no longer residing in the state, and to addresses of vacant houses or apartments,&rdquo; the House Republican Policy Committee reported in a 2024 policy paper headlined, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/republicanpolicy.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicanpolicy.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Dangers%20of%20Mass%20Mail-In%20Voting%20-%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Dangers of Mass Mail-In Voting.&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Left-leaning voter groups assert fraud rarely happens in universal vote-by-mail. But ask the folks in Paterson, N.J., about that.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, a New Jersey judge invalidated a city council election there after he found the Third Ward contest was &ldquo;rife with mail in vote procedural violations.&rdquo; A councilman and a councilman-elect were among four people charged with criminal conduct involving mail-in ballots during the election, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/20\/politics\/paterson-new-jersey-city-council-voter-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ernest Caposela ordered a new election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The closer the contest, the greater concern for voter fraud with mail-in ballots. A Democrat operative told the New York Post in August 2020 that such election fraud is &ldquo;more the rule than the exception&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State,&rdquo; the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/29\/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> on the whistleblower, who requested anonymity for fear of being criminally charged. &ldquo;Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Several states allow leftist nonprofit organizations to register voters and even to manage ballot drop boxes. In battleground Wisconsin, a known Democrat operative was given the keys to the room that stored Green Bay&rsquo;s 2020 presidential absentee ballots, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/10\/how-mark-zuckerbergs-election-money-helped-an-out-of-state-democrat-get-his-hands-on-wisconsins-2020-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks scandal<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >demanded cities receiving significant private grants work<\/a> with certain liberal groups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Undermines Democracy&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Beyond the ballot security concerns surrounding California&rsquo;s Proposition 50 referendum, the wisdom of the Gavin Newsom-driven redistricting plan is raising all kinds of red flags in the deep blue state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ballot issue aimed at rewriting the state&rsquo;s political maps to give Democrats even more congressional seats in Congress is as partisan a gerrymander as they come. And the referendum would at least temporarily kill the bipartisan maps commission that leftists have long claimed is a much fairer way to draw political lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-state-senator-breaks-down-the-heartbeat-act-heres-how-its-enforceable\/\" title=\"Texas ... Senator Breaks Down The Heartbeat Act: Here\u2019s How It\u2019s Enforceable\">elected district attorneys<\/a>, we are committed to upholding public trust through transparency, fairness, and the rule of law. We strongly oppose Proposition 50, which seeks to dismantle the voter-approved California Citizens Redistricting Commission and reinstate partisan gerrymandering&mdash;a flawed process rejected by Californians through Proposition 11 (2008) and Proposition 20 (2010),&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrepublic.com\/news\/abrams-joins-29-other-das-in-opposition-to-prop-50\/article_8d83d290-80a4-4c6b-b552-2ed66f44cc21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assert <\/a>the state DAs, including Los Angeles County District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/da.lacounty.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nathan Hochman<\/a> and Yolo County top prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffreisig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeff Reisig,<\/a> past president of the DA Association.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: Bipartisan coalition of 30 California elected District Attorneys oppose Proposition 50  <\/p>\n<p>As elected district attorneys, we are committed to upholding public trust through transparency, fairness, and the rule of law. We strongly oppose Proposition 50, which seeks&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hlr2xEW5wE\">pic.twitter.com\/Hlr2xEW5wE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Reisig (@jeffreisig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffreisig\/status\/1976476981614215468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Proposition 50 undermines democracy by prioritizing politicians&rsquo; power instead of preserving voter-approved reforms that improve community representation,&rdquo; the letter states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California voters raise concerns over Prop 50 mail-in ballots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2498238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-12-at-8.44.29-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[65107,4045,32360,22850,32570],"class_list":["post-2498237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ballot-integrity","tag-california","tag-election-fraud","tag-gerrymandering","tag-voting-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-12-at-8.44.29-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498237","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498241,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498237\/revisions\/2498241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}