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SOMEONE TELL CALIFORNIA THE ELECTION WAS LAST WEEK - By Zachary Faria, Washington Times, November 13, 2024
Believe it or not, Election Day was one week ago. Apparently, no one thought to tell California.
California is still counting votes at a glacial pace, with fewer than 76% of statewide votes counted as of Monday night. According to the New York Times election results tracker, there are still nine House races in California where we do not know who won, along with nine state Senate races, 21 state Assembly races, and two of the ten statewide ballot propositions. In 43 House, state Senate, and Assembly races, California hasn’t even counted 70% of the votes.
One week after the election, there isn’t a single race where the state has even counted 90% of the votes. For comparison, Florida, which is the third most populous state in the country and stretches across two time zones, publicly reported 93% of the vote on election night, 90 minutes after polls closed.
California is as incompetent when it comes to counting votes as it is in addressing homelessness, the housing crisis, and crime. California mails ballots to every single voter and then stretches out its election deadlines to accommodate lazy voters. Despite the fact that voters receive those ballots months in advance of “Election Day,” California still counts ballots that arrive a week late.
Lazy counties are also given lax “deadlines,” with the state giving them a full month to submit results, which leads to many counties taking multiple days off from counting. Democratic Contra Costa County, for example, stopped counting Friday night and took three days off before resuming the count Tuesday morning. The only way this could better represent California’s terrible decision-making is if the state put a bunch of liberal nonprofit organizations in charge of counting the votes and didn’t bother to check on their progress.
Not content with ruining their own state, California Democrats now consistently undermine trust in elections by dragging out results that could flip control of the House and change the direction of the country. Just try and imagine what would happen if California were to become a presidential swing state again (it is roughly as competitive now as former swing state Florida). We may not know the results of California’s competitive House races until after Thanksgiving.
If California Democrats cannot do something as basic as counting votes in a timely matter, it is no surprise that they can’t address the poverty, housing, homelessness, drug addiction, and educational crises the state has been saddled with for years. California remains the gold standard for terribly run states, with a government that is as lazy as it is incompetent.
This raises suspicions of further Democrat attempts at a rigged election.
Comparable to what happens in countries like Cuba or Venezuela, they announce a stop in counting during the night, to resume the next day. But in reality, they secretly stay counting all night, to determine how far ahead their undesired candidate is, then they manufacture enough fake ballots to rig a narrow victory for the guy they want to win.
And I think that is exactly what happened in the battleground states in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Trump was ahead in every battleground state in 2020 up till 3 AM, when Democrat-controlled election centers "stopped counting for the night", sent the Republican observers home, and then
only Democrats secretly stayed and counted votes all night in multiple battleground states. And despite that in many states 80% of the vote were already counted before the Republican observers were sent home, lo and behold, Biden narrowly and improbably "won" in these states overnight when only Democrats were there and counting votes. Just by he weirdest of coincidences !
I call it the "Al Franken effect". Where the Republican wins in a close election. And then in a Democrat region, somehow they delay the final count, and "find" a batch of several hundred or several thousand uncounted ballots, just pull them out of a magic hat, and (as in the Al Franken senate race) in a last-minute upset with "discovered" ballots, and call their Democrat candidate the winner.
Kyrsten Sinema's Senate election in 2018 against Republican opponent Marttha McSally is another example, where McSally was ahead for many days, and at the last minute votes came out of the blue to give the race to Sinema.
The irregularities on election day 2 years ago in the
2022 Arizona governor race between Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake is another prime example.
New York state U.S. representative
Claudia Tenney is another Republican who won in 2022, but had to claw tooth and nail in legal battles for months after the election, before the Democrats stopped trying to find new ways to cheat and steal the election from her.
The more prolonged and drawn out, the more opportunity for Democrat foul play. And isn't it odd, how Democrats always seem to win in these close races in Democrat-controlled regions, where the Republican was initially ahead.
