Posted on 10/12/2020 7:09:20 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
In a photo posted to social media last week, a young man wearing a mask with Orange County congressional candidate Michelle Steel’s name on it is holding a mail ballot and giving a thumbs up next to a box about the size of a file cabinet labeled “Official ballot drop off box.”
The post, from Jordan Tygh, a regional field director for the California Republican Party, encouraged people to message him for “convenient locations” to drop their own ballots.
The problem is the drop box in the photo is not official – and it could be against the law.
The California Secretary of State has received reports in recent days about possible unauthorized ballot drop boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange counties, agency spokesman Sam Mahood said Sunday evening. Reports place such boxes at local political party offices, candidate headquarters and churches.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla said his office is coordinating with local elections officials to look into the reports.
Only county elections officials can oversee ballot drop boxes, choosing the number, location, hours of operation and other details. County registrars are charged with making sure every box follows strict state guidelines for security, including making sure they can’t be tampered with and tracing the chain of custody of all ballots.
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(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Are they worried...or thrilled?
Nope, nothing to see here. All the voting is secure and safe and fraud free. Move along, now. Move along.
“UN-official” ballot boxes are phishing for votes.
Probably worried. She’s in a very close race I wouldn’t doubt her Dem opponent asked someone to “put some official-looking boxes out there” so they could tear up a couple thousand votes.
“making sure they can’t be tampered with and tracing the chain of custody of all ballots.”
They will forget all about that when someone “finds” a box of ballots in the trunk of someone’s car three days after the election.
Funny, fake ballot boxes that will be removed in the night with all those early Dem ballots.
They should be worried, and acting.
““UN-official” ballot boxes are phishing for votes.”
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Poop.
Excellent way to purge any votes from Republican areas.
Amazing. Just amazing how low some folks are and how dangerously inattentive voters are these days.
NO WAY would I leave a ballot in any Drop Box.
After reading the article, I discovered this tid-bit:
On its website, the Fresno County Republican Party also shared a list of “secure” ballot collection locations. None are official county drop box sites, with the local GOP instead listing its own headquarters, multiple gun shops and other local businesses.The state is still looking into the source or sources of the boxes, Mahood said.
The California Republican Party did not respond to requests for comment about the boxes by deadline. But they’ve been defending the practice in replies on Twitter, alleging the process was made legal under a 2016 law that allows California voters to designate a person to return their ballot for them. The GOP calls the practice “ballot harvesting” and blames it for losses to the Democrats in OC and other places in 2018.
But state officials clarified that using an unauthorized vote-by-mail drop box would not meet the requirements of the 2016 law. No designated “person” would be signing for the ballots as required by state law.
But once the ballots are taken out of the drop box, someone would sign for them.
So the Republicans are trying to play the ballot harvesting game like the Democrats did in 2018, but the Democrats are now crying 'foul.'
The only way this scam works is if legitimate likely Republican voters (seniors, white, married, etc) are duped into putting their ballots in these boxes. They will never see a polling place if they do this.
Back in the day, I’d left more than one message in a store demo tape recorder: “Prease help, prease, I am being herd plisoner in a Japanese tape lecorder factory...”
“Are they worried...or thrilled?”
In California.....successful.
If one box is found, especially if it has ballots in it, they should be forced to re-ballot entirely and do it by poll only with the addition of certified ballots by mail for those physically unable to go to the polls at the expense of the state since their constituents caused it. And receipt mail is required for mail ins before the count is finalized.
rwood
Partisan Media Shills update.
Didn’t California legalize ballot harvesting?
Although advertising a drop off box as official is false advertising, yes.
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