I was thinking about ‘ballot harvesting’ last night and was reminded of a similar scenario—cheating on standardized tests by school staff. A big scandal erupted in Georgia (Atlanta?) where the ‘award-winning’ superintendent put pressure on principals to see that their schools scored well on state-mandated tests. The principals in turn put pressure on teachers to have parties where they would gather to change students’ answers to correct ones.
Schools appeared to have made remarkable progress with schools jumping from failure status to excelling. But they were too greedy. The stunning turnaround raised suspicion and finally teachers admitted to the fraud. Some went to prison although as I remember it, the superintendent in question dropped dead.
Is there a way to investigate the ‘miracle turnaround’ in Orange County California House races where ‘harvested ballots’ changed the result of six contests? Did the harvesters get too greedy? Of course since democrats control the levers of power in California an investigation is unlikely. But if 90% of harvested ballots are Democrat in a nominally Republican precinct that might be a tip-off.
If they are willing to cheat on school achievement tests, you know full well they are willing to cheat on getting control of Congress.
In the case of Cali all offices and depts that would be involved in an investigation are run by dims so NO there would never be an investigation!
Good point....there were huge repercussions to that school scenario.
REFERENCE The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law. (RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).
In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.
To bring a case under Georgia's RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicly-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.
UPDATE Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt teachers under this law.....for falsely taking public money, falsifying official school records, and so on.
It was perfectly legitimate ... another diabolical democrat scheme to ensure their election. Consider how this was done:
In a scathing commentary on just how rigged California’s election laws have become, former California State GOP Chair Shawn Steel wrote, “California Democrats have systematically undermined California’s already weak voter protection laws to guarantee permanent one-party rule.” In addition to automatic voter registration, automatic sending of absentee mail-in ballots, and legalized vote harvesting, Steele itemized additional ways the Democratic legislature has rigged elections in California.
They have legalized pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, based on the accurate assumption that these youths, products of leftist indoctrination in California’s K-12 public school system, will vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. They have legalized the right for convicted felons and, in some cases, prison inmates to vote, based on the accurate assumption that these cohorts tend to favor Democrats. They have even passed laws in some California cities that permit noncitizens to vote in local elections.
Since they can' get elected through traditional means, they have now rigged the system.