Add The California Post on Google It’s another flashing red warning sign that California’s voting system is broken.
As the California Post has reported, lefty groups appear to have used lax election rules to exploit the city’s homeless population for crass electoral gain.
A Post investigation found nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter with 132 beds, and another 185 at a drop-in center with zero beds.
In fact, records show a whopping 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers.
This raises a host of questions, including: Where did the ballots for these voters go? Did the voters ever see them? If so, did they complete and return them of their volition? And if not, who did?
The public deserves to know whether homeless people were truly given the right to vote, or were victims of a ballot harvesting operation run by socialists intent on expanding their own power in LA.
It is possible that the beneficiary was City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who advanced to the mayoral runoff on a late-ballot surge, perhaps based in part on this very type of chicanery.
Raman has longstanding ties to an LA homeless-industrial complex that sends a torrent of taxpayer money to nonprofits, incentivizing them to perpetuate rather than reduce homelessness.
In effect, a socialist faction of the city has amplified its own power by building a welfare state that shifts taxpayer money to nonprofits, entrenches homelessness and dependency on City Hall’s “free” needles, laundry, et al, and maintains a captive voting bloc for far-left candidates to tap into each election.
That’s an abuse of power, and LA residents, voters and taxpayers should be appalled.
It’s the very type of shady-if-not-illegal conduct that destroys public confidence in California elections.
Americans nationwide see us as a laughingstock, thanks to our ludicrous voting rules that send a ballot to every voter on the rolls; allow political operatives to collect and submit batches of ballots; forbid voter ID; and can flip initial results days or even weeks after an election.
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And we may have seen it play out in LA, where voters appear to be deprived of a real choice for mayor in November.
The city’s a mess, from stratospheric costs to rising crime to rampant homelessness and more. But don’t expect change from those who prosper from things the way they are.
A weak incumbent vs. a radical-left councilwoman does not appear to offer much choice at all.
Spencer Pratt made a powerful case for change in the primary election campaign. But he fell short, possibly thanks to left-wing ballot games.
All of this calls for election-system reform in California –– a need obvious to anyone without a stake in the dysfunction.
The state should reinstall controls to prevent fraud, ballot harvesting, late vote-counting and more.
But there’s also something voters can do, and soon: Approve a voter ID measure headed for the November statewide ballot.
Voter ID –– already the norm in most states and many countries –– is a simple, common-sense way to ensure that only eligible (and lucid) voters participate in California balloting.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration should and will continue its investigations into possible voter fraud in California, and prosecute those whose guilt can be proven.
State residents should ask themselves: If not reform, if not change, and if not consequences for those who use dirty tricks to gain power, then what?
