American Thinker: In an extraordinary investigative piece on how ballot-harvesting works by Steve Miller, published on Real Clear Investigations, we learn an amazing amount of information about how ballot-harvesting works and why it’s so closely connected to election fraud, skewing elections in directions they normally wouldn’t go. The must-read piece is focused on how Texas is dealing with the seedy issue, enforcing the law, prosecuting more than twice as many cases of electoral fraud as California, even hampered as Texas is by weak penalties for violators. But a little detail stands out much deeper into the piece: Ballot-harvesting, which is at the root of considerable fraud of all kinds, is a practice specifically borrowed from Latin America, with a very impressive Latino analyst, K.B. Forbes, who has electoral experience in both countries, citing Mexico. Here’s the passage:
The practice has its roots in Latin America, said K.B. Forbes, a political consultant and Hispanic activist who has served as an elections observer in Sonora, Mexico. “In the Latin culture, they have colonias, which is ‘little colony,’ literally,” he said. “In these, they sometimes have the equivalent of a precinct boss, and that’s how people move up. The [politiqueras] deliver the vote and when the candidate moves in, the theory is that they get a good post inside the government.”
That brings up California, where ballot-harvesting is perfectly legal, and normal voters have to wonder how the heck that happened. Ballot-harvesting has been a disaster for Republicans in California, with all conservatives now shut out from any representation in once-red Orange County. Most congressional elections there showed Republican candidates in the lead on election night in the last midterm, but all of them flipped to Democrats as the Democrat-led ballot-harvesting brought in votes and votes and votes from supposed precincts, harvested by their political operatives, until the result went the other way. (This by the way, didn’t happen in districts where Democrats held a small lead, nothing flipped in their cases and ballots did not keep rolling in).
If ballot harvesting is a practice imported from Mexican politics, what does that say about California politics, whose legislators would embrace Mexican electoral practices over the U.S. standard? more here
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Like I told the nice Republican Cash Harvester last night, when she called me seeking my ??????support. “Stop the ballot harvesting before you call me again”.
This is not just a California thing. It’s a 50 state (or 57?) wide theft.
The ballot box is corrupt. The vote counting is corrupt. The media constructing election narrative is corrupt.
We’ve got trouble ahead.
California sets a dangerous precedent by which other States will follow. This needs to get nipped in the bud right now with basic federal guidelines for all.
Sounds like Shit-cago has been practicing this for awhile.
And practice makes perfect.
To stop voter fraud, we must first take reasonable steps to eliminate practices that allow fraud to happen. Send voters identification when they register to vote, and require they show it when they actually vote. Declare election day as a national holiday, and require voters to go to the polls – mail in ballots are massive fraud opportunities. Establish a data base for absentee ballot applications, and eliminate provisional ballots – if you receive an absentee ballot, you must use that absentee ballot.
Of course there is significant voter fraud, and it is the Democrats who primarily engage in it. They know that they will lose many elections absent voter fraud, and Democrats are the ones who both proclaim that there is no voter fraud, yet resist presenting ID as just one reasonable step to prevent the fraud they claim isn’t happening.
And it might help to check Al Franken’s trunk the night before the election to make sure that there aren’t hundreds of ballots “mistakenly” hidden there.