Story #1, from Kelly Rucker’s article at conservative writer/commentator J.D. Rucker’s website (did you really expect this to be from a liberal/left source???):
Late Friday Ballot Dump Propels Nithya Raman Closer to Spencer Pratt as Doubts Mount Over Election Integrity
In the chaotic aftermath of Los Angeles’s mayoral primary, a familiar pattern has emerged. Late mail-in ballots have dramatically narrowed Spencer Pratt’s lead over Democratic Socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, raising serious questions about the reliability and fairness of California’s vote-by-mail system. While incumbent Mayor Karen Bass appears headed to the November runoff, the battle for second place has become a case study in how elections can shift under the cover of extended counting.
This is not merely a procedural hiccup. With tens of thousands of ballots still outstanding, Raman has gained ground through batches that heavily favor Democrats, shrinking Pratt’s advantage from over 33,000 votes to roughly 20,000 in the latest tallies. Such swings, occurring days after Election Day, underscore a system vulnerable to manipulation and ripe for skepticism among those who value transparent, timely results.
Story #2, from Kevin Killough’s article at justthenews.com:
The U.S. attorney for the Central District of California said Friday that his office has “multiple fraud investigations underway” in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The prosecutor, Bill Essayli, also said in the announcement that he’s working with Harmeet Dhillon, U.S. assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to conduct a comprehensive audit of the state’s voter rolls.
Essayli didn’t comment on any specific investigation, but he said he’d “follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent.”
“The state has stonewalled every effort to verify that only eligible U.S. citizens are registered to vote,” Essayli also said in an X post announcing the joint probe.
If either of these stories surprise you, it’s a good bet you have not spent much time monitoring how the voting – most especially the post-election “counts” – go in California.
Personally, I would be very surprised if Spencer Pratt remains the #2 vote-getter after all the post-election “counting”
A serious investigation, by real investigators, of who is/is not allowed to vote in California, and how the voting is done, should have taken place a long time ago. I can only hope the investigation noted above is real, is complete, and gives us real answers.
Given California’s history of post-election vote counting, I have to admit I’m already pretty sure of what those answers will be.
