{"id":680308,"date":"2021-08-24T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680308"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:22:19","slug":"california-police-say-hundreds-of-vote-by-mail-recall-ballots-found-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-police-say-hundreds-of-vote-by-mail-recall-ballots-found-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"California Police Say Hundreds Of Vote-By-Mail Recall Ballots Found In Car"},"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\">22<\/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-police-say-hundreds-of-vote-by-mail-recall-ballots-found-in-car%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=680308&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Recall-Ballots.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Police in Torrance, California, announced on Monday that multiple agencies are investigating how and why hundreds of stolen vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming gubernatorial recall election ended up in a parked car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-08-23\/torrance-police-find-more-than-300-ballots-in-suspects-car-along-with-gun-drugs\">According<\/a> to The Los Angeles Times, \u201cOfficers responding to a call Aug. 16 about a man who was passed out in a vehicle found more than 300 ballots,\u201d other stolen mail, along with \u201ca loaded gun, drugs, and other illicit materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California voters will decide whether to oust Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom from office in a special recall election set for September 14. KTLA reported that the ballots were discovered the same day they were mailed out. &nbsp;FiveThirtyEight recently <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/california-recall-polls\/\">published<\/a> an updated average of several polls that showed an average of 48.8% for keeping Newsom in his current role, while removing him is polling at an average of 47.6%. Practically every public survey indicates the question is within the margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said new election ballots would be distributed to affected registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>The Torrance Police Department said its Special Investigations Division was working with the U.S. Postal Service and the Los Angeles County District Attorney Public Integrity Unit. In a statement, Torrance PD said they were \u201ctrying to figure out\u201d what the unidentified suspect intended to do with the ballots and determine if the case involves election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TorrancePD\/posts\/10159751639549940\">arrested<\/a> the man last Monday for numerous weapons, narcotics and forgery charges, and he has since been released on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p>As The Times reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>Officers were called about 10:45 p.m. to a 7-Eleven parking lot at 3735 Emerald St. for a report of a man passed out in a vehicle, said Sgt. Mark Ponegalek, a spokesman for the Torrance Police Department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When officers searched the vehicle, they found a 9-millimeter handgun and stolen mail, including more than 300 ballots, Ponegalek said. In addition, the man had methamphetamine, Xanax pills, a scale, multiple California driver\u2019s licenses and credit cards in other people\u2019s names, police said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Law enforcement does not believe the incident is part of a larger coordinated scheme, and the ballots had not been tampered with, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TorrancePD\/posts\/10159764066269940\">according<\/a> to a case update from the Torrance PD. The Los Angeles County Registrar\u2019s office said there is no indication the items were stolen in an attempt to influence the recall election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were still sealed in their envelope,\u201d Sgt. Ponegalek <a href=\"https:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2021\/08\/23\/torrance-police-more-than-300-stolen-recall-election-ballots-found\/\">told<\/a> KCAL 9 News. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like the ballot had already been filled out and in the return envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some recall proponents have speculated that the recovered ballots could be part of a fraudulent ballot harvesting operation, noting other mail thefts around the state. The controversial practice has recently been made illegal in Arizona and Florida but is lawful in California. It allows anyone to return completed ballots as long as certain procedures are followed.<\/p>\n<p>Ponegalek said the stolen ballots were primarily addressed to voters in the cities of Lawndale and Compton.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Torrance, California, announced on Monday that multiple agencies are investigating how and why hundreds of stolen vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming gubernatorial recall election ended up in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680308","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}