flacaltenn
Diamond Member
It may or may not be fraud, depends on the circumstances. Meanwhile, many of those folks didn't get to have vote counted because they couldn't prove eligibility. That would be the system working.The point with provisional ballots is that they are examined to determine whether they are valid before they are counted.
And, I pointed out that there are a number of reasons such ballots get rejected. You can NOT suggest that a rejected provisional ballot indicates that someone broke the law. So, you haven't show that fraud occurred in these cases
More to the point of this issue, you haven't show that ANY ballots got counted that should not have been counted.
Again. I'll say it slowly so that it sinks in. The fact that they are rejected and not counted doesn't mean that no fraud occurred. It's the WILL to investigate and PROSECUTE that is lacking here. Just like the habit of harboring criminal aliens and filling the Cali jails with them --- there's no UPSIDE to investigating and hauling people in for questioning when the state is run that way. And the state has ZERO motivation to UNCOVER and PROSECUTE any fraud.
And you ducked my question to you. People who ASK for provisionals are expected to eligible to CAST a ballot. If you're NOT registered, or not in the County you're SUPPOSED to be in or not ELIGIBLE -- that's a crime. Knowing this -- you could hose an election by FLOODING the polls with ineligible voters, create a post election hose fest nighmare and prevent VALID provisionals from being processed.
And 1.5 MILLION provisionals means that system sucks. So INVESTIGATING would be a good thing. I know that several groups have TRIED to audit the provisionals in the past. The Libertarian party that I was with in Cali did so. They charged us $10,000 to look at about 1000 provisional ballots. So you get the impression -- it's not exactly an "open process"..
Doesn't satisfy me or the folks worried about voter fraud that those fraudulent attempts to vote were not counted. It should worry you that they were not punished. OR -- at least discovered, investigated and admitted.
The system is NOT working when you hand out 1.5Million provisionals in a Gen Election. The paltry resources and methods of the registrars cannot handle that. And it's not a matter of more people or more money. It's a matter of better "system design" and use of technology.
Should never be catering to folks who misplaced or lost their VBMail ballots and waited until ELECTION DAY to do something about it. That just promotes the expectation that the voter right does not come with ANY responsibilities.