Sacramento has made a farce of Californias election system
California’s election system is a farce.Balloting guardrails? Gone.Voter ID? Racist, we’re told.An efficient, reliable vote count? You’ve got to be kidding.Deliberate or not, it’s a process that invites exploitation.And when results shift days after voting closes –– as they do repeatedly in California elections, and as they have since Tuesday in the races for governor and LA mayor –– many voters believe the worst.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.
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Never miss a story So: Good that the federal government is investigating. First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in LA, said that federal officials are auditing state voter rolls and have opened multiple investigations into possible election fraud.Such scrutiny is long overdue.Essayli and others have noted that in California, universal mail voting without voter ID has made it easy for bad actors to commit fraud without detection or repercussion.Add to that an inane vote-counting system that takes weeks to complete, and we have a process that instills not confidence, but doubt and derision nationwide.Gov.Gavin Newsom often likes to brag that’s California’s a leader, but on the fundamentals of voting and democracy, it’s a laughingstock. California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!State officials say they drop guardrails and count slowly to ensure broad access to voting, to prioritize accurate counting over speed.But those are happy talking points. Access and oversight are not mutually exclusive.
Neither are speed ...