Ripe for Fraud

For John, BLUF:  California's last election seemed like that in some Iron Curtain nation.  Which isn't a favorable comparison.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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WHAT IS ‘BALLOT HARVESTING,’ AND HOW DID CALIFORNIA DEMS USE IT TO NUKE THE GOP?

From The Daily Caller, by Reporter Scott Morefield, 1 December 2018.

Here is the lede plus one:

As the polls closed on election day last month, six California Republican House candidates, including Representatives Dana Rohrabacher, Steve Knight, and Mimi Walters, were ahead in their respective races.  However, as the absentee and provisional ballots rolled in over the intervening weeks, all six lost to their Democratic opponents.

The case of Korean-American GOP candidate Young Kim was one of the most prominent examples.  On election night, Kim held an 8,000 vote lead over her Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros, and even attended freshman orientation in Washington, D.C. before watching her lead, and her victory, slowly evaporate over the subsequent weeks.

Here is the source of the issue:

Passed as a barely noticed change in the state’s vote by mail procedures in 2016 and signed by then-Governor Jerry Brown, California’s AB 1921 allows voters to give any third party — not just a relative or someone living in the same household, as was previously the law — to collect and turn in anyone else’s completed ballot.

As someone said, AB 1921 solves a problem a simple postage stamp would solve.  I say this as someone who voted by mail in dozens of Orange County, California, elections.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff