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Ballot Harvesting

Raise your hand if you are familiar with AB 1921, a bill signed by Jerry Brown in 2016. I do not see any raised hands! Do not feel bad, as the California Republican Party apparently was not familiar with it either, as became apparent in the most recent midterm elections. The California Democrats, however, were very familiar with AB 1921, and they used it to their big time advantage on November 6, 2018. As background there are approximately 20 million registered voters in California, and this year about 5 million ballots (approximately 40% of the overall total votes) were counted after Election Day . . . in fact some counties were still tabulating ballots as of Nov. 30th! You might be asking yourself, “Is this Florida all over again?” The answer is “probably no” although AB 1921 makes skullduggery a real potential issue, and I will not be at all surprised is some voting irregularities are discovered. FYI: in L.A. a ring bribed homeless to register fraudulently, and the DMV registered 1500 ineligible voters, but this unlawful registering is small potatoes compared to AB 1921, which is legal . . . I mean it has to be legal as it was passed by a Democratic Legislature and signed into law by our Democratic Governor!Drum-roll, please!AB 1921 was a change in California law that now allows anyone to drop off a person’s absentee ballot, rather than a family member as previously required. In 2018 more than 42% of the votes were tabulated after Election Day because of a huge number of absentee ballots that were turned in by ??? on Election Day. In Orange County alone more than 250,000 ballots were dropped off on Election Day! (In Orange County no Republicans were elected, even though it had previously been a Republican stronghold.) This collecting of absentee ballots, and then turning the ballots in (a vast majority on Election Day) is called “ballot harvesting.” I have many questions about “ballot harvesting.” My main question concerning this practice is, “are these ‘ballot-transporters’ bonded,” or are they just random impartial Democrats? Are all of the harvested ballots sealed? Can anyone be sure that the voter actually filled out the entire ballot? For instance if the actual voter voted on only a few of the candidates or on only a few of the ballot measures, what’s to stop the “ballot-transporter” from filling in a few of the empty spaces in an unsealed ballot. How long can these “ballot-transporters” hold on to the ballots that they have collected? If 250,000 absentee ballots were turned in in Orange County on Election Day, does that mean that 1000 separate “ballot-transporters” each collected 250 ballots that day? (25 ballots per hour for 10 hours on Election Day – turned in before the polls closed by each of these 1,000 separate “ballot-transporters . . . extremely unlikely, if not impossible!). Worse yet, everyone knows that these good-hearted individuals who presumably deliver and then later pick up the absentee ballots would be more than happy to offer “suggestions” to these absentee voters . . . Duh! The only question in my mind is not did some “irregularities” occur, but how many thousand of these absentee ballots were, in fact, tainted!

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