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Ballot-harvesting: Not just for California anymore...
American Thinker ^ | 12/06/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 12/06/2018 7:57:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind

California looks like a lost cause for Republicans, given how Democrats clinched the midterm with a series of new laws. Maybe no big deal, given that California has been a solid blue state for something like 20 years. But are Americans aware of the potential for California vote-rigging to come to their states, making them so blue no conservative will ever be able to win an election?

A California political operative, Edward Ring, writing in American Greatness, lays out the coming specter:

Come to California to see what’s going to roll out across America in time to guarantee a progressive landslide in 2020. It may be perfectly legal. But it’s so rigged it would make Boss Tweed blush.

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The way they did this was to pass laws designed to rig the system.

Three laws in particular combined to stack the deck against Republicans. First came the Motor Voter law. This meant that as soon as any California resident acquired or renewed his driver’s license or state ID, he would be registered to vote automatically. Second, the state legislature authorized counties automatically to send absentee ballots to voters, even if they had not requested those ballots. Third, the rules governing ballot custody were changed so that anyone could turn in absentee ballots, not just the actual voter.

The opportunities presented by these three laws were fully exploited by Democrats.

Ring warns that Democratic legislatures in states that went all-blue in the last midterm - Democrats picked up six new houses and several governorships, were watching California very closely. They want what California has, and are likely to pass the three laws California did to seal their permanent power entrenchment: Motor-voter laws that register voters whether they like it

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballotharvesting; california; fraud
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1 posted on 12/06/2018 7:57:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

There are 11 more states with partial Democratic control, either through the state Senate or state lower house, or else its governorship. Some, such as Michigan, probably don’t have that much to worry about, given that the state elected a moderate Democrat as governor with a Republican legislature. But others could come very close, particularly if one house or gubernatorial chair flips, or if a GOP governor is either a RINO or can be muscled.

Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Maryland and Massachusetts are worth watching for the next tier of Democrat moves to rig absolute control.


2 posted on 12/06/2018 7:58:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

If they are going to do it, and no one is going to held accountable, then we should too.


3 posted on 12/06/2018 7:58:50 AM PST by chris37
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To: chris37

No one should do it. If caught doing it, then it should be jail for 10 years - MINIMUM MANDATORY.


4 posted on 12/06/2018 8:03:10 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

Ideally, but that’s not the actual case in reality.

At this rate we won’t be having elections for very much longer.

What we are going to have is war.


5 posted on 12/06/2018 8:06:39 AM PST by chris37
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To: RinaseaofDs

“No one should do it.”

Do you think they would convict a Democrat doing this?


6 posted on 12/06/2018 8:06:52 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: chris37
Exactamente.

Why do the Republicans just whine when the democRATS cheat and commit blatant voter and ballot fraud in these elections?

If no-one is going to stop these schemes, then we should be engaging in the same activities on a large scale to ensure they can't steal them all.

Republicans should be able to steal some back from the democRATS, especially in Kalifornia, where ballot harvesting is legal, or at least the law.

It's hard to beat corrupt political machines from cheating but what's good for the goose, should be good for the gander. Beat them at their own game.

7 posted on 12/06/2018 8:08:26 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: alternatives?

A ballot-harvesting scheme was thwarted in north Texas over the 2018 election. Very scary that “Beto”, the democrat prick, I mean pick, was in just a few points below Ted Cruz.


8 posted on 12/06/2018 8:11:32 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: HotHunt

Wonderful sentiment, but in case you hadn’t noticed, the Republicans as a political party are near moribund. That is why Cali is blue......the Republicans offer nothing in the way of organized resistance.


9 posted on 12/06/2018 8:16:52 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: chris37

“What we are going to have is war.”

Already happening. Trump was our counter-attack. Look at May’s naked repudiation of the will of her people. Look at Macron’s repudiation of the will of his people. Greece. Now Italy.

The Saudis vs. Iran. Forces actively trying to get the US and Russia into a shooting war.

It’s already on.

As for election manipulation, the whip must come down on this. It’s more naked, this fraud, than ever.

We’ll see what the response is going to be, and whether it is going to hit the streets.


10 posted on 12/06/2018 8:26:30 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: SeekAndFind

Republicans are going to have to outcheat the ‘rats. The only way to win is to beat them at their own game.


11 posted on 12/06/2018 8:27:26 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The perpetrators of fraud - aka Dims - speak to the American people with a forked tongue...

...convincing half the country they want to ‘count every vote’

- while in reality they have ingeniously invented new ways to commit their fraud ...

- one of which they call ‘harvesting’ ballots (not real votes)

- thereby winning elections that no one dares to call them on.


12 posted on 12/06/2018 8:32:27 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: SeekAndFind
The communists Democrats know how to win. Trump is just sitting by and watching when the hammer could come down on the criminals of the Democrat Party. If things go on as they are now, Trump will be impeached and also, if not, will not get reelected second term. Come on Trump, wise up.
13 posted on 12/06/2018 8:36:04 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Sans-Culotte

The only way to win is to beat them at their own game.


The Democrat approach is to loosen registration/voting to a point where cheating becomes easy and undetectable. Instant registration, vote-by-mail, ballot harvesting, etc. etc. The only way to combat this is to tighten registration/voting and that of course will be called “voter suppression”. You see, actually requiring people to register to vote in person with valid identification, and actually vote at a poll in person is “racist” or something.

States under democrat control that pass these measures are likely lost to us forever. The best we can hope for is to not let these measures be passed in states that don’t already have them.


14 posted on 12/06/2018 8:38:50 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: SeekAndFind
Rule #2 Absentee ballots can be created for everyone.

Rule#3 The absentee doesn't even have to fill it out or return it.

Rule#4 Cali delegates should NOT be seated.

15 posted on 12/06/2018 9:11:44 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: HotHunt

Why do the Republicans just whine when the democRATS cheat

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That’s all Republicans ever do about anything. They wine like children instead of take action like adults.

I’m sick and tired of their empty talk, appeasement and lack of any convictions. We would be better off electing a bunch of mannequins to congress. We need a new party.


16 posted on 12/06/2018 9:40:05 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind
Some, such as Michigan, probably don’t have that much to worry about, given that the state elected a moderate Democrat as governor with a Republican legislature.

The DemoKKKratzis in Michigan and Wisconsin pulled some kind of hinky sh*t, but I'm not sure what it is yet.

17 posted on 12/06/2018 9:47:14 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: RinaseaofDs; chris37
No one should do it. If caught doing it, then it should be jail for 10 years - MINIMUM MANDATORY.

That's not happening.

Either we push back HARD before 2020, or it's all over but the shouting.

It's beginning to look like this was the Uniparty plan after they got caught with their pants down in 2016 by the Deplorable peasants.

Paul RINO delivered the House to the KKKratzis as part of the plan.

Now, "Mormon Barbie" Jeffy FlaKKKe is slow-walking the Trump judges so the Uniparty doesn't lose more judgeships to conservatives.

18 posted on 12/06/2018 9:51:20 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

“A ballot-harvesting scheme was thwarted in north Texas over the 2018 election.”

I have my doubts that they will ever catch one in CA.


19 posted on 12/06/2018 9:58:38 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: chris37

Can’t someone in California sue over ballot harvesting?


20 posted on 12/06/2018 10:54:25 AM PST by Conserv (alifornia soe)
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