The protracted delay in counting the ballots in California is a prime example of just how poorly governed the once golden state has become. It has been ages since the voter rolls were purged, and ballots are mailed to everyone – an innovation of Governor Gavin Newsom and clearly designed to protect and preserve the grip the Democratic machine has on California. Florida is the polar opposite of California and is a shining beacon of a well-governed state – usually reporting its election returns within two hours. California’s lengthy delay in tabulating the votes of citizens invites distrust, skepticism and speculation about election fraud. The initial returns were overturned by the steady counting of ballots mailed in over a period of weeks, even after the day of the election. Is anybody really surprised by the “news” that Spencer Pratt was counted out in Los Angeles? LA was once a proud city that has been sinking into a miasma of mismanagement for years, bordering on the criminal, overwhelmed by homelessness, and infested with crime and predators.
Looking at California’s election process, any rational person would be tempted to believe it was designed to encourage fraud. The voter rolls appear to be maintenance-free and never updated to weed out the dead and otherwise departed. There are 29 days of early voting, as well as same-day voter registration and collection of provisional ballots. Add to that concoction the fact that everyone who registers a motor vehicle is instantly and automatically enrolled as a voter. On top of that, there is the convenience of universal mail-in balloting and an additional seven days to count those mail-in ballots mailed at the last moment, at the same time as other ballots are being harvested. Virtually all of the election officials are Democrats, as are the staff members. What could go wrong, and why would anyone be skeptical of a fair ballot count, or be suspicious of outright election fraud?
The system was designed by Democrats for Democrats, with unions and NGOs well-funded by taxpayer dollars to churn out their members and the homeless to harvest votes. It seems the election laws in California were written to make such things perfectly legal; it certainly puts mighty big weight toward skewing election results in favor of the Democrats. Many of the NGOs, funded by taxpayers, label themselves as nonpartisan, but the reality is they are as completely partisan as either the Democratic National Committee or the Republican National Committee. Many of these NGOs reap the benefit of funding societal failures, contributing to an ever-expanding welfare state, paid for by hardworking families.
The incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, could be the poster child for a spectacularly incompetent official who doesn’t even pretend to be a public servant. Utterly clueless, Bass had pledged to lift Los Angeles out of its cesspool of problems and promised not to make foreign junkets. Yet Bass was in Ghana attending the inauguration of its new president as much of Los Angeles and the once beautiful Pacific Palisades burned to the ground. The incompetent governor, Newsom, and his equally useless counterpart, Karen Bass, had neglected to have enough water in the reservoirs to allow the fire hydrants to work properly. Progressive California – which provides funds for illegal aliens to pay for transsexual surgeries as well other health care for non-citizens while generously funding DEI – had not filled the reservoirs because of its supposed environmental concerns, and had made cuts to services like local fire departments. Progressive California enabled the dreams of homeownership for thousands of its own citizens to literally burn to the ground and go up in smoke. The government regulation in Los Angeles and California has stifled the ability of homeowners to rebuild their homes, and many of them have run out of insurance money to live elsewhere while trying to run through the byzantine maze of bureaucracy and fees. The Los Angeles City Council has bickered about collecting fees and taxes from homeowners who lost everything they had before allowing them to rebuild. The number of homeowners who have been able to rebuild has been infinitesimal compared to the actual loss. It has been an utter and complete failure caused by the state and local governments.
According to the election returns dribbling in, Nithya Raman, a nonentity on the city council who appears to be a run-of-the-mill socialist/Marxist no more capable of governing than Karen Bass, will advance to the general election. Raman only just barely passed Spencer Pratt in the vote count, but the counting process has apparently served its purpose, as neither Bass nor Raman will lift Los Angeles from its spiraling descent into the gutter. Pratt had pleaded that Angelinos were entitled to “a basic quality of life” irrespective of political party or beliefs. Apparently not.
As the voter rolls have never been purged, there is no telling how many deceased and non-citizens mailed in ballots – including those who have moved and now live elsewhere.
Still, Pratt’s creative campaign ads will likely change the face of candidate advertising. The innovative nature of the ads caused both Bass and Raman to worry, and they were so rattled by the first debate appearance with Pratt that they cancelled their participation in the second scheduled debate.
Both Karen Bass and Nithya Raman come from the same failed local bureaucracy which allowed much of the city they propose to “govern” to burn to the ground. You get what you vote for.
