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| Blue State Blues: Democrats Stole the Election in California ‐ Legally, Through ‘Ballot Harvesting' |
| 2018-12-01 |
| [Breitbart] California Democrats "stole" the midterm election using a new method that is illegal elsewhere but completely legal in the Golden State: a practice called "ballot harvesting," which allows third parties to submit mail-in ballots for voters. It sounds "bizarre," as outgoing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) described it to the Washington Post on Thursday ‐ but it is absolutely true: Democratic operatives handed in pile after pile of other people’s ballots. And Demorats are proud of it, mocking Republicans for failing to take advantage of a new law signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2016, over GOP objections, that allows "ballot harvesting," and which some Republicans are now blaming for their defeat. The practice explains several mysteries about the 2018 election, such as: why mail-in ballots caused massive shifts toward Democrats in races Republicans thought they won on Election Night; why Republicans won the turnout battle in the primary, but lost it in the general election; and why Democrats with party backing defeated fellow Democrats without it ‐ even when the latter had more money. "Ballot harvesting" by Democratic Party operatives ‐ a surprise tactic they likely saved for the general election ‐ appears to have made the difference. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday that Democrats ran a disciplined, door-to-door campaign offering to deliver voters’ ballots to the polls: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 "You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-01 08:53 |
| #2 Hastening the day that voting will be a full contact sport, no mailing it in allowed. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-12-01 02:07 |
| #1 Look for Northern California to become the 51st state. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-12-01 01:04 |