I remember hearing that California was more Texas than Texas itself growing up when it would vote traditionally Republican State. After all this is the State that gave us President Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon.
Anyhow, I had hard time believing two Cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles, had more power than the rest of the State that covers most of the West Coast.
There is nothing unusual about California in that regard.
87% of California's population is urban. So please don't expect Tulare county to have much influence as to how California votes. It is all about the LA and San Fran metro areas.
There are so many ways for voter fraud to take place. With the addition of mail-in ballots and early voting, it has just gotten worse. We need voter ID numbers which get input into a searchable public data base nationwide when a vote is accepted.
At least NJ and California (Dim run) had the same change in procedures this year - automatic sending of mail in ballots to anyone who asked for a mail in ballot in 2016, whether or not the person is asking for one this time. Then such persons had a deadline to notify the county they did not want to use the mail in ballot. If they failed to notify the county and then went to their regular polling places on election day, they’d only be allowed to vote with a provisional ballot.
Guess what the corrupt county officials then know AFTER the polls close?
They know who did not notify the county that they did not want the mail in ballot that was sent to them, and they know if they did not return a mail in ballot and they know if they did not make out a provisional ballot at the polling place. The sum of that knowledge is registered voters who if they voted should be in the provisional ballots, but are not - unless a provisional ballot for them can be “found”.
In the highly contested races, ALL “provisional ballots” must have signatures checked against the local precint books, by persons who are not part of the local precint or even part of the county, but are independent auditors hired for the examination.