Posted on 01/02/2019 12:31:18 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
It was one of those heartstring-tugging, tear-jerking, carefully curated narratives about DREAMers we're supposed to read and then respond to with sympathy. But a story that ran in the Los Angeles Times yesterday accidentally did more to raise questions about the issue of ballot-harvesting in California than any raving right-wing warning tome could ever do.
The Times describes how California's famed ballot-harvestors, who flipped places such as Orange County blue in the last midterm, aren't actually citizens. They did it by "helping" voters fill out, and turn in, and continue to turn in, ballots from otherwise uncommitted voters until they got the result they wanted. Here's the DREAMers "helping" the voters vote the way they wanted, in action:
In California, Dreamers like Cruz phoned voters, walked precincts and protested outside Republican lawmakers’ offices, reaching people who had not been called or visited by either party. Their efforts helped boost turnout among Latinos in this year’s midterm election — 29 million nationwide were eligible to vote, according to the Pew Research Center — which is projected to surpass levels higher than in past presidential election years, political analysts said.
An analysis of data from eight states by the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at UCLA found the Latino vote grew by an estimated 96% from 2014 to 2018, compared with 37% among non-Latinos. The surge, researchers said, helped move 20 House districts held by Republicans to Democratic control in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, New Jersey and New York.
And here's how they actually did it: Half an hour later, she was helping Silva look up candidates as he filled out his ballot by the light of her phone. “I’m glad you guys came,” he said. “I was going to leave it in my drawer.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
All are invitations to fraud
they all make elections a joke
All cheapen and devalue the meaning of voting and any kind of responsibility for voting.
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Yes, yes.
FBI needs to monitor all federal elections in states like CA. But first we have to clean up the FBI.
Collusion between non-citizens and campaigns?
Yes my friend you’re absolutely right. Proverbs 28 verse 4
Smile...
“Naturally, the story doesn’t say what the “harvester” would do if the “voter” wanted to vote a different way...read on.”
That’s what MS-13 is for, carrying on the traditions of Al Capone, Richard Daley, and Tamany Hall, great American traditions./s
But this is technically legal, persuading citizens to vote your way. It’s only “illegal” when a Russian buys a Facebook ad.
We who defend this country only care what the written law says.
“The Times describes how California’s famed ballot-harvestors, who flipped places such as Orange County blue in the last midterm, aren’t actually citizens. They did it by “helping” voters fill out, and turn in, and continue to turn in, ballots from otherwise uncommitted voters until they got the result they wanted.”
Yes, lets vote for a month after election day until we get the result we want. Vote all year.
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