Since ballots are counted by employees with a very strong incentive to control the election, and there is no supervision of the count, as used to happen when paper ballots were counted in each precinct, there is no local check. Once ballot containers are out of the precinct, the chain of evidence, the audit trail, is no more.
The only possibility for Harmer is that votes for him were so improbable, and statistical anomalies so blatant, that a new election is called. With Debra Bowen and The Governator, there is no other “controlling legal authority.” Sure, try to tell Eric Holder that the unions might be cheating.
California will change when the rest of the nation stops bailing it out, after private business has left, and the tarp bribes paid to Google, Cisco, and a few other still profitable companies are cut off. California government employees can't be supported by non-union states. Nevada is dying too because without jobs, people aren't going to Las Vegas and Reno. Texas and Iowa will only pay for so many $800,000 city managers and the rest of the thieves
from councilmen down. California has a remarkable number of $400,000 police chiefs, city attorneys, sheriffs, assessors (used to be the most corrupt office in local government), ...
Bell California is famous, but even the local left-wing newspaper, The San Fran Chronicle, published a remarkable table with hundreds of $200,000 plus deputy sheriffs, health admins, jail guards, retired 40 year old firemen receiving multiples of full retirement since most retire on partial or full disability, and then go to work selling real estate and playing golf. Chiropractors to very well in California, often providing permanent comfort to patients they don't even need to meet!
Calpers, the state employee retirement fund, is an accomplice. They know who is paid what, and control the cash flow which must be paid to retirees, who all know the tricks - work lots of overtime in your last year of work because the retirement payment are based upon last years. Some of that overtimes is spent fishing, but these were hard working city and county employees whom nobody wants to deny.
Unions, of course, bilk the private sector by setting up the salary boosting. California must go to receivership. Virtually every state legislator was returned, along with Governor Moonbeam, stretch, and Babs. Even though there is no reason to believe votes represent the will of the people, California is on welfare and, like an addict, needs to fail in order to reform.