Yeah, and the minute we act anything like Democrats they will screech about our ‘voter fraud’ and the Department of Justice will start rounding up anyone who participated.
Bingo. Also see 19.
Good article. CA tried to go after the CA GOP for putting ballot collection boxes in churches. They got to keep them there as long as the boxes didn't say "official" which most of them didn't anyway
The state GOP's deployment of their own ballot boxes in southern California drew considerable attention earlier this week, with Republicans claiming that they were legal because the state has allowed ballot harvesting since 2018.
Once a voter fills out a ballot, anyone can return it. Most people mail them in prepaid envelopes provided by their county election offices, but others use official ballot drop boxes distributed throughout the county.
Becerra still sent a cease-and-desist letter to Republicans over the boxes as some had been marked "official" -- a mistake GOP general counsel Tom Hiltachk attributed to "perhaps an overzealous volunteer" on Wednesday. Besides that, Hiltachk insisted the boxes were legal.
"The fact that it is a box does not make it illegal," Hiltachk said. "If we have to use a bag, then we'll use a bag."
Still, the GOP and the State came to an agreement. Among the concessions the state GOP made, the party agreed not to declare the boxes "official" and to staff them whenever the public could access them. Also, they promised to return the ballots within a 72-hour period.
See the bold text. Now that's fighting back.
Following a bloodbath for Republicans in the 2018 midterms, then-House speaker Paul Ryan couldn’t believe what he had seen out in California.
“We were only down 26 seats the night of the election and three weeks later, we lost basically every California race,’’ Ryan — a mentor to California Republican and current House GOP head Kevin McCarthy — told the Washington Post in a post-mortem interview. “This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”
Of the seven seats that Republicans lost two years ago, two in Orange County have flipped back to red — Steel’s wife, Michelle Park Steel, won in California’s 48th, while Kim defeated Cisneros in a second try — and Republicans lead by narrow margins in two more.
So what changed? “I think one of the big areas is ballot harvesting,” California GOP spokesman Hector Barajas told National Review, crediting the pragmatic leadership of state chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson to emphasize the practice in several key races.
“We were either going to do two different things,” Barajas said of the state party’s shift in attitude. “We were either going to continue to whine, oppose valid harvesting, and lick our wounds after the election, or we were going to figure out the rules, look at the chessboard that was put before us, and figure out how to play the game.”
Now that's what I'm talking about.
Only a gain of 1-2 US house seats but it's something and they hung on to 8 other seats. They don't have many to begin with but what they have, they fight to keep. They flipped 4 CA house seats. Long Island flipped all US house seats red though I don't know what made that happen. Could have just been the voters. Between CA and Long Island, that made the difference and BOTH are blue states.
Go ahead and keep whining like Ryan & McCarthy.