Politico Knocks 'Baseless' Suspicions of Radical Raman's Surge in L.A. Mayoral Vote Count

Candidate Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral race came in third place on election night, June 2, so far behind second place finisher Spencer Platt that she essentially conceded the election in a tearful farewell. And then, miracle of miracle, over the next few days as more and more mail-in ballots kept rolling in, Raman suddenly surged in the votes, often exceeding first place Karen Bass in some counts and doubling the percentage of her election day returns to the extent that by Sunday she surpassed Pratt in the vote, thus apparently landing a spot in the November runoff elections.

Oh, and for those of you who expressed skepticism about this electoral miracle in the midst of a questionable vote count of the mass ballot mailings in which voter identification requirements were at best laughable, Politico has written off your concerns as "baseless."

The Politico California damage control team of Melanie Mason, Dustin Gardiner, and Blake Jones have already described any reasonable skepticism as, wait for it, "conspiracy theories" on Monday in "The online meltdown over LA’s vote count."

And Utah who is holding primary election today is doing the same thing with mail-in ballots as California.

“””Vote by Mail
Elections in Salt Lake County are conducted mainly by mail. Ballots are mailed to active, registered voters 21 days prior to an election, according to Utah State law.

The post office does not forward ballots. If you need your ballot mailed to an address other than the address where you are registered to vote, contact the Salt Lake County Election Office.

To receive a mail-in ballot you must be registered to vote no later than eleven days before an election.

Mail in ballots may be returned in one of these three ways:

Option 1: Return by Mail
Return it by mail in the postage-paid return envelope provided in your ballot packet.

To be valid, your ballot must be in the clerk’s possession by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. This deadline has recently changed, so make sure to mail your ballot early.””””

https://www.saltlakecounty.gov/clerk/elections/vote-by-mail/

Wednesday evening June 3 460626 ballots counted 322000 estimated remaining 782626 estimated total votes Monday evening June 8 713325 ballots counted 66000 estimated remaining 779325 estimated total votes The total votes cast remained pretty much at the 800,000 level for the duration of the counting.

If I open my mail box and find 1000 100 dollar bills but 1/2 of them are counterfit I do not have 100 thousand dollars. I have 50,000 dollars. Which begs they question of good ballots and illegal ballots. The system in California has zero security not because of a flaw in the system but by design of the system.

“””The system in California has zero security not because of a flaw in the system but by design of the system.”””

I totally agree. California has enacted laws that make it easy to cheat and nearly impossible to prosecute those who do cheat.

One example. California laws dictate that all registered voters are sent a ballot.

And California provides a postage paid return envelope that the Postal Service does not date stamp.

It’s in the California legal code - you as a voter can hand write the date. So even if the post office doesn’t postmark it (which they usually don’t) your hand-written date supersedes. Nor do they check the signature of the witness on the ballots if the voter doesn’t sign the envelope.

Now get this - there are scores and scores of homeless outreach places. Women’s shelters. Immigration outreach. And more. Very few of these places actually have beds for overnight stay but they do offer meals, computer access, showers, laundry and some minor medical services and “self help” like voter registration and Medi-Cal (medicaid) registration. They recruit the homeless to register to vote using these addresses. So these locations get ballots sent in bulk. One place, I heard, received over 1000 ballots. Another 140 something. This adds up. The ballots very likely never reach the named person. So someone gets to literally “harvest” tens of thousands of ballots very easily. And do you think they’re gonna vote for the people who want to cut the reckless waste funneled through these sites?

California refuses to cooperate with Trump in providing the voter rolls. Gee I wonder why. The entire set of laws pertaining to voting from Moter Voter registration to harvesting to dead people to anonymous names using an address that is not their residence is all legislated to enable fraud to ensure a political outcome. This is why the state is so heavily Democratic. It’s not just because of registrations, it is because there are untold and unknowable tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots going into the hands of NGOs that are paid by the state. Of course they are going to vote for their interests. In massive numbers. Whether it is one person filling out 100s or 1000s of votes, or whether they go out and pay homeless $2 per signature. There is video of one guy saying “I’m Theresa” as he signs a petition. That is probably more widescale than a single video presents.

Same basic scam as the ActBlue money laundering/campaign violations. Take $1 million and slice it up using 20,000 names at $50 a person to deliberately break the law but hiding it. In this case, it’s just ballots instead of dollars.

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