BY VICTORIA TAFT 4:17 PM ON JANUARY 18, 2023
The results are in for California’s Emergency! COVID excuse to toss out most in-person voting and go to universal mail-in ballots. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s experiment to help Democrats worked, but was utterly disastrous if you consider election integrity to be important.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) surveyed the results of California’s 2022 primary and general elections and discovered that the state lost ten million ballots. The situation gets even worse, but more on that in a moment. Let’s pause on the 10,000,000 lost ballots for a moment.
Gavin Newsom’s universal mail-in voting system to advantage incumbents and Democrats, but I repeat myself, lost more ballots than the populations of 40 of America’s 50 states. For the record, I included Michigan even though it has 10,135,438 residents — basically a rounding error. If you think it’s an insult to refer to 135,438 people as a rounding error, then congratulations — you’re beginning to see the gravity of losing a number of ballots nearly equal to the population of one of the most important states in the union.
In my opinion, that’s a feature, not a bug in this rigged system.
Indeed, Newsom hastily made permanent the Democrat-endorsed universal mail-in system when he signed into law AB 37 in 2021. He did so without knowing the impact, except to advantage Democrats and vote cheats. The November 2022 election was the first big test.
California has a population of 39,000,000. And the California Secretary of State’s Office says 21,940,274 of those people were registered to vote by October 2022. That’s close to the World Population Review estimate of a 55% voter registration rate in the state. Interestingly, PILF reports that California sent out a total of 22,184,707 ballots, of which 9,781,328 were accepted (see what ballots were tossed out below). And ten million went to parts unknown and never came back.
