This story circulated on social media this weekend: the crazy California Democrats came up with another way to cheat in the election, this time by using the “family voting system print” to allow each voter to vote in the “comfortable home” . “
According to the screenshots posted on Twitter, one from the website of the California Secretary of State and one from the Orange County Voter Registry. All California voters (not just those with disabilities or those serving overseas) can request “remote access via email” Voting “” California recall ballot, a ballot that is printed at home and then mailed or hand-delivered to county election officials.
Beware! During the upcoming recall elections, it is best to pay close attention to California’s home voting system print. pic.twitter.com/hL4ManaRf2
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) August 7, 2021
What? General printing ballots at home for California governor’s recall election? Said not so. Mailing ballots to each (allegedly) registered voter led to the disastrous outcome of the November 2020 election, and allowing each (allegedly) registered voter to download and print the ballot would only make the cluster ***k larger.
So did this really happen?
The short answer is yes, because An absolute majority of the Democratic Party hurriedly passed an amendment bill in June 2020This legislative workaround is necessary because last fall, after two Republican congressmen Kevin Keeley and James Gallagher filed a lawsuit challenging these orders, Newsom made the Sutter County Superior Court The judge cut off the wings of his love for executive orders.
Nevertheless, there are still some questions that are not easy to find on the Internet. RedState has sent these questions to the California Secretary of State’s Office and the three county election offices, and we are currently negotiating with the California Election Integrity Project on this issue. When county officials respond, an update will be issued.
This is what we know now—and some useful background information on how we got here. Fasten your seat belt; this is a bumpy journey.
In 2020, California’s election law does not allow each county to only send a mailed ballot to each voter, and the voter did not request the mailed ballot in advance.But due to Newsom’s executive order issued in June 2020 Shelving certain parts of state election laws Every (allegedly) registered voter in the state sent a ballot by mailThe state legislature met in the summer of 2020, but failed to pass legislation to make changes to how Newsom hopes to conduct a general election in response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic-but they probably think that no one will challenge Newsom’s executive order and therefore No actual legislation is required.
Unfortunately, for Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democrats, two lawmakers challenged the executive order—and won. Assemble James Gallagher and Asm. Kevin Kiley (now running for Newson’s seat) filed a lawsuit and won the case on his own behalf. Did I mention that they won?
In the ruling, Published a few days before the November 2020 election, the judge found Newsom’s actions are unconstitutional Because the California Emergency Services Act did not grant the governor “the power to amend statutes or make new statutes, this is entirely a legislative function.” In addition, the judge deemed it necessary to issue a permanent injunction against Newsom to prevent him from doing so in the future:
Gavin Newsom was ordered in his official capacity as the governor of California and prohibited from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act… The Act revises, changes, or changes existing statutes or formulates new statutes or legislative policies.
Since people had voted for several weeks before the judge’s ruling, she announced that this did not apply to the November 2020 election, but the fact that she issued a permanent ban on Newsom meant that she wanted to make sure that he could not put this kind of prank in the future. Given that Newsom’s petition for removal had been widely circulated at that time, she knew that Newsom might face a recall election within a year after her ruling, and seemed to want to make it clear that Newsom had no right to issue the chief executive. The order made in the election under the California Emergency Services Act.
However, the legislature will be allowed to change the election law because it is their job to make/amend the law. Did they do this?
We will start with the California Secretary of State website referenced in the election guide tweet.This Remote access to mailed voting (RAVBM) page Still only refer to the general election on November 4, 2020. However, the California Governor’s Recall Election page contains a link titled “California Governor’s Election Management Guide“Under “County Election Official Resources”. In this document, there is only one sentence in the RAVBM section:
All county election officials should allow any voter to vote using the certified RAVBM system, regardless of whether the voter is a disabled voter or a military or overseas voter. (Article 1605(c) of the Electronic Code.)
Since this entry relates to section 1605(c) of the California Electoral Act, I looked at it next. It reads:
(c) Election officials should allow any voter to vote using a certified remote accessible mail system, regardless of whether the voter is a disabled voter or a military or overseas voter.
This part is part of Chapter 7 of the Electoral Law-the entire content was added in 2021, when Senate Bill 152 passed Signed by the legislature and then signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. Because these laws are made through legislative procedures rather than unconstitutional use of executive orders, they are not subject to injunctions by judges in Sartre County.
That is by design.
Senate Bill 152 was a blank budget bill when it was introduced on January 28, 2021. On June 14, 2021, after the Democrats knew that the recall would be eligible to vote, the bill was amended to provide California Secretary of State with $35 million for the recall election.As of March 2021, two California lawmakers It is estimated that the recall election will cost US$8.1 to US$100 million. So why is it 35 million dollars? The California legislature is usually less stingy.
It turns out that this is the exact amount that the California Secretary of State’s Office owes Biden-related company SKDKnickerbocker for its “voter education” efforts in the 2020 general election. Invoices California State Comptroller’s Office told the agency that it did not authorize payment Funding under the CARES Act. This should be just a coincidence, right?
Throughout June Increase chatter that one Early recall of election date will benefit Newsom, Because his poll numbers are still good, and after the removal of the indoor mask requirement on June 15, California seems to be making a comeback. But a few years ago, California lawmakers revised the recall law and set up more roadblocks for election day, hoping to save Democratic Senator Josh Newman from the recall. These obstacles are now a problem, so on June 23, the bill was revised again.
June 23 Amendment-Entry On the same day the Secretary of State certified the recall petition, Which means that it has enough valid signatures to be eligible to vote—allowing the Governor to set an earlier election date, requiring each (so-called) registered voter to vote by mail, setting the time for in-person voting centers, and remotely Access to the mail voting program extends to every (allegedly) registered voter.
Because, obviously, mailing ballots to them and voting in person is still not enough for these people.
Oh, of course, these regulations will expire on January 1, 2022. Until the legislature inevitably decides that they are necessary for the future.
The bill passed both houses on June 28 Essentially a partisan vote, The final version has only been “printed” for five days (at most). It was completed on the same day. Only three days later, Governor Eleni Kounalakis set the date of the recall election as September 14. Ironically, September 14 is the earliest date that counties in the state can be prepared.
In the Associated Press article on the passage of the bill, Keeley is one of the Republican legislators Cite to criticize the bill:
In the absence of legislative review, Newsom’s supporter Democratic Lieutenant Eleni Kounalakis will be able to set the election date faster. The county clerk stated that they need to be prepared at least by September 14.
Republican Rep. Kevin Keeley, who is considering running for the election, said: “The conclusion is that Gavin Newson cheated in the recall, and this legislature is his voluntary accomplice. This is inevitable.”
Republican Congressman Vince Fong said: “This is an attempt to put the thumb on the scale and try to get a party’s partisan result.”
Now, the RAVBM system itself does no harm. It is for people with disabilities who use assistive technology for granted or military personnel serving abroad. In the case of people with disabilities, it eliminates the need for others to fill in ballots for them in person, which is good from a ballot collection point of view (they don’t need “helping hands” to advise them).In regular elections, only voters who meet these criteria are eligible for RAVBM votes and Special requirements must be made to the county where they are locatedThe county sends voters a link to the ballot via email, and they use any assistive technology they normally use to fill in, print, and return it using the envelope they received the traditional mailed ballot.
RAVBM ballots can also be returned face-to-face. As long as the voter signs on the outside of the envelope, it does not have to be placed in the official ballot envelope to be considered valid. This is the main problem of this recall election. On the surface, people living in another state can use the name of a registered voter in California (whether the registered voter is alive, dead or residing in another state) to register for RAVBM ballots, vote, print, and mail. Currently, we have not See any official procedures that explain how to protect the RAVBM ballots received, or whether to check them with other mailed ballots or on-site ballots received to ensure that voters only voted once. It is conceivable that groups of union workers dutifully printed these ballots, and the union boss placed boxes of ballots ready to be sent to Los Angeles County, San Francisco or Oakland at 3 in the morning. If it seems that Gavin might be true If you lose this thing.
The Republican and Republican National Committees of California must unite and fight desperately to ensure the fairness of the September 14 election. If they don’t, they will come to each union state in 2022 under the guise of a “safe vote”.
