Most Californians learned about ‘ballot harvesting’ in 2018 after election night as conservatives were leading in a number of SoCal races. Then, at the last minute, boxes of ballots arrived to flip seats from red to blue. Conservative losers were suspicious. Libs said nothing to see here.
Now with all Californians getting a ballot by mail, voters are confused wondering where to vote, do all ballots have to be mailed, and will their ballot be discarded if sent by mail?
For decades, on absentee ballots there was a line on the envelope where a relative could be designated to take the ballot to the polls or the county clerk. Then liberal legislators changed the law so anyone could be authorized by the voter to deliver the completed ballot. However, the law was not strictly enforced and the person that the voter authorized on the ballot did not necessarily have to take the ballot in. Someone else could do so according to the latest liberal voter law revisions.
To complicate the process, there have been numerous incidents nationally of mail carriers discarding ballots, mainly from conservatives. Now, those voters are wary of using the postal service fearing that their ballot may be discarded. So, Republicans, churches and businesses are beginning to offer their facilities as ballot collection centers.
Last week, a pastor’s wife in Murrieta, CA invited people on social media to bring their completed ballots to the church and then the church would take them to the county election’s clerk. However, the police arrived to arrest the woman for breaking election law. Then, attorneys got involved to debate a flawed election process designed by democrats.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla issued a Cease and Desist letter mandating that the Republican committees and others take down their ballot drop boxes. Then, attorney Thomas Hiltachk of Bell, Mc Andrews and Hilltachk wrote the two state officials known for deceiving voters to politely invite them to drop dead. (This is same firm suing Yuba County over its illegal Measure K sales tax law).
The liberals in their own VBM (Vote by Mail) words wrote, “These opportunities include in-person early voting, the option to vote-by-mail, and giving voters the power to decide who they most trust to return their vote-by-mail ballot for them if they choose.”
Hiltachk informed Becerra / Padilla (B/P) that “The program you now falsely claim to be illegal is a perfect example of what you ‘proudly’ stated to be permissible just last year. In this case, voters have decided, for themselves, that they trust the staff and volunteers at their local political Party headquarters, or their church, or a business that they patronize, to securely deliver their VBM ballot to the appropriate election official.”
Hilltachk explains to B/P that their threatening letter ignored AB 306, enacted by liberals in 2018, which eliminated the requirement for a relative taking the ballot by saying “a ballot shall not be disqualified solely because the person authorized to return it did not provide on the identification envelope his or her name, relationship to the voter, or signature.
Hilltachk tells B/P that it is “legal for any organization, or other person, to accept completed VBM ballots from any voter, whether it is at a local Party headquarters, a church, or a union hall, or a voter’s doorstep. Indeed, there is no requirement that the voter affix the name of the person to whom he or she has entrusted to deliver the VBM on the actual envelope or even know his or her name.”
Hilltachk reminds B/P that Republicans were never in favor of ‘ballot harvesting’ and it was the liberals who created the broken system with few checks to prevent voter fraud. Hilltachk has stopped the B/P Cease and Desist double-talk at this point.
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