What is going on in CA???
Link to cnn results
It’s the count down of 14 more to reach the magical 218. Republicans have been static at 211 since Wednesday.
This is looking very ominous . . .
History has shown that any Ca Lingering House races will go to the rats. Any needed ballots are ready to go
These are battleground races. Counting cannot be completed until there has been a window of at least four hours when no Republican observers are in the room. This can take many days. The rule is in the restricted access section of the Cali election manual.
I read stories indicating Los Angeles County is doing the vote dumping this weekend.
They got races the Democrat Machine wants to win for Mayor of LA and LA County Sheriff.
Orange County and inland where these races are I believed no vote counting till later.
From related thread...
Here is possible evidence of voting-counting fraud in California that is arguably a trigger for Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
Woman Reports Finding Election Ballots in Ravine in the Santa Cruz Mountains (11.11.22)
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A) is a penalty for states where elections have been rigged. That amendment gives the federal government the responsibility to investigate and punish offending states with a loss of House seats.
The problem now is that the corrupt feds are evidently wrongly not willing to investigate allegations of voting-related fraud imo.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Since the FDR era 20th Amendment (20A) arguably weakened the federal government's power for initial, 14A-based investigatons of alleged vote-counting fraud, "we" need to move the 20A requirement for seating the winners of elections from January 6 and 21 back to March 4, or wherever, to give the feds, including the courts, more time for initial investigation of now very predictable vote-counting fraud imo.
Excerpted from 20A:
"Section 1: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
Note that one argument for 20A was to get rid of "lame duck" time between election day and first day of office.
But the problem with that argument is that the constitutionally limited power federal government is arguably intended to be lame duck by design, most federal domestic policy now based on stolen state powers imo.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. [...]” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, I'm sure that desperate Democrats would appreciate having more time to challenge elections that they failed to steal.
Democrats Have Objected to Electoral Vote Certification For the Last 3 GOP Presidents (1.1.21)
Insights welcome.
California needs to separate absentee voting from in person early voting. In Texas early voting and absentee voting are entirely different things. If you are able bodied and under 65, you can’t get an absentee “mail in” ballot to vote from your home county. It has to be sent outside the county and mailed back or sent back via another common carrier from a county that is not the county of residence. It’s a real pain in the posterior. I’ve only voted absentee twice.
On the other hand in Texas we have 12 days of in person early voting open to any qualified voter in the county. In my county, about 70% of the people who voted this year voted early. There were about 9 early voters per absentee voter. Early voters use exactly the same machines that are used on election day, Early voting cuts down the need for absentee voting which means fewer paper ballots to vet when they arrive at the courthouse. In person voters are vetted before ever getting a code to operate a voting booth. Their votes can be quickly and easily counted
We actually count all our early votes along with processed absentee ballots received up till that time, the weekend before the election and keep the results confidential til poll closing time on election night. The first release of results on election night are actually quite useful, because it includes data from just about all the precincts in the state. Most counties in Texas get their final vote counts done by 10:30 pm. My county got all the results finalized by 10:15 during the 10 o’clock news program.
Looks promising except I recall in the 2018 House election, of the 11 districts where Republicans had the earlier lead, after weeks of counting the Democrat/Communists won 10 of the 11.
I was at first disappointed that the race in District 3 wasn't called (it's an open seat) and today stands at slightly over half the ballots have been counted, but maybe -- just maybe -- in this historically conservative area of California (Tom McClintock was my rep until the recent redistricting), Placer County (the most populous in the district) is slow-counting to thwart the harvesting efforts of the Democrat/Communists who are streaming into the county from the hell-hole of the San Francisco Bay Area.
We better hope Kiley prevails because his opponent has promised to stay the course of FJB's policies. Sounds to me that if Jones were to win, he would be just another of Pelosi's "House boys". (A "racist" term? Nah ... not really as bad a term as it could be......) [Can you tell I'm a little PO'd on a Sunday?!]
As of this afternoon, this is where things stand on the undecided House races in California: District 3- Kiley(R) 53.0; Jones(D) 47.0 (53% counted)
District 9- Patti(R) 43.7; Harder(D-Inc) 56.3 (47% counted)
District 13- Gray(D) 49.9; Duarte(R) 50.1 (61% counted)
District 21- Costa(D-Inc) 54.6; Maher(R) 45.4 (75% counted)
District 22- Salas(D) 47.5; Valadao(R-Inc) 52.5 (53% counted)
District 27- Smith(D) 44.6; Garcia(R-Inc) 55.4 (67% counted)
District 34- Gomez(D) 53.0; Kim(D) 47.0 (68% counted)
District 41- Rollins(D) 49.3; Calvert(R-Inc) 50.7 (67% counted)
District 45- Chen(D) 46.3; Steel(R-Inc) 53.7 (70% counted)
District 47- Porter(D-Inc) 51.3; Baugh(D) 48.7 (72% counted)
District 49- Levin(D-Inc) 52.4; Mayott(R) 47.6 (71% counted)
It’s absurd and Ipsy facto is evidence if not proof of shenanigans.
Computerized voting, early voting, drop off voting etc…All the changes that have been made should make results faster to obtain, not slower.
The elections systems in this country are totally trashed. Drastic, serious solutions are needed right away, otherwise, forget about the United States of America. It’s over.
-PJ
Three or so elections ago there were some major shenanigans in Orange County, Kalifornia. For... ever, Orange County had been solid Republican. This time, 6 or 7 Republicans were each ahead by many thousands of votes by 12 midnight on election day. Just a few days later, voila! All of them had lost. More and more votes were ‘found.’ Just like AL Franken. In Minnesota, in several car trunks, bags and bags of ballots were ‘found.’ And low and behold, most of the ‘votes’ were for Weird Al.