Posted on 07/29/2022 5:22:06 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Los Angeles County has banned any potential election monitors from watching the counting of the votes in the upcoming race to recall corrupt District Attorney George Gascon, increasing the risk of voter fraud in an already contentious election.
According to the Washington Examiner, the county made its decision by declaring that the recall election is technically not considered an “election” by county standards.
“A reference to monitors/observers in the presidential election is not an accurate comparison as an election does allow for public observation, and Los Angeles County does have an Election Observer Program where members of the public get to watch election-related activities,” said Michael Sanchez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters. “However, a recall attempt and its verification/certification activities are not the same.”
Sanchez referred to Government Code 6253.5, which says that petitions for ballot measures are not considered to be public records, and thus are not open to inspection the same way ballots in a more traditional election would be.
In response, Tim Lineberger, a spokesman for the Recall campaign, cited State Election Code 2300, which says that voters have the right to ask questions about election procedures and observe the process.
“The counting and verification of the recall petitions is part of the election process,” said Lineberger. “It would be a very narrow interpretation to suggest otherwise.”
Mark Meuser, an attorney and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in California this year, agreed with Lineberger’s criticisms, declaring that “the Registrar of Voters is violating the spirit of the law by restricting access to the signature verification process of a recall election.”
“Nothing in the law prohibits the ROV from allowing proponents to watch the signature verification process just like they do for mail-in ballots and provisional ballots,” Meuser added, while also warning that the county “will not back down absent a judge telling them they are wrong in their interpretation.”
Gascon, a progressive Democrat who has been funded by the likes of George Soros, is one of many far-left district attorneys around the country who has become notorious for his soft-on-crime policies, reducing punishments for criminals and refusing to enforce certain laws, at great risk to the safety of law-abiding citizens. A wide coalition of Los Angeles voters, including law enforcement officials and former prosecutors, have come together to put a recall of Gascon on the November ballot.
The bipartisan group has submitted over 717,000 signatures in support of recalling Gascon, which is over 150,000 above the minimum required amount of names for the measure to be placed on the ballot. The county is currently conducting a full count of every name in the petition to confirm that enough of the signatures are valid.
Pretty much “in your face”.
Gee, what a shock.
SUE their cheatin’ arses.
5. Who Conducts the Recall Election? The county elections official (i.e., the County Clerk or Registrar of Voters) conducts the election in the case of the recall of elective officers of a county, school district, county board of education, community college district, resident voting district and judges of trial courts (§11002). However, in the event that the county elections official is the officer whose recall is being sought, then the duties imposed upon [them] shall be performed by some other person designated by the BoardofSupervisors (E.C. §11201).
Their own website and booklet calls it an election.
When Communists and Marxists are in power.
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It certainly DOES look like they are.
Perhaps they never heard, “Government for the people, by the people, and for the people.”
All politicians, each and every one of them, serve at the pleasure of the citizenry. That's the reality. Ignoring this and trying to do an end run around the citizenry IS insurrection.
What a dirtbag.
It’s what they do
Add a middle-finger emoji, and you've pretty much nailed it.
These leftists and their definitions. Woman. Recession. Election. I guess if you control the definitions, you control everything.
Democrats are so blatant with their cheating. They don’t even bother to justify it.
Chicken**** move by our overlords.
If that’s not the law, then they need to fight it tooth and
nail.
We have to quit conceeding to the Communists. They don’t
own the place yet.
Tyranny, there is a solution.
What is going to be needed for the November elections is cameras secretly planted all over the place.
When they say Our Democracy, they are not being inclusive of deplorables.
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