There can be only one reason not to count votes on a single election day: fraud. Allowing votes to be accepted and “counted” for days, or, as in California, months after election day, enables one essential Democrat cheating tactic: Democrats get to know the total of Republican votes, so they know how many Democrat votes they’ll have to manufacture to win.
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This is compounded by ballot harvesting, ballot drop boxes, and mail-in ballots sent to everyone, including the dead, illegal aliens, and people who haven’t lived in the state for years. Accepting those ballots prior to election day allows Democrats not only to accept and count illegal ballots, but to suppress Republican ballots. Ballots destroyed and never counted can’t be discovered in audits, which they violently resist. Add in allowing anyone to register to vote with just about anything with someone’s name on it, and you have an anti-Republican—as in our constitutional republic—single-party state.
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The invaluable Victor David Hanson tells us: “Democracy is dying in California.” Actually, it’s not, but let’s see what VDH has to say first:
California, as we’re seeing through the lenses of the Los Angeles mayoral race, is a dysfunctional state. The Democrats talk a lot about democracy dying in darkness. Democracy is dying in California.
Now, what do I mean by that?
When you look at the LA mayoral race, you start to see a familiar pattern that all of us who live in California have noticed in state Assembly, state Senate races, and congressional races, and we saw it on the national scale as well.
But in California, what happens is a conservative candidate will take a lead or finish ahead on election day, and then, almost with a smirk, the Democrat opponent counts on ballots, mailed-in ballots that start to appear a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks after the actual election deadline, and they are at ratios of 5-to-1, 10-to-1, 20-to-1.
See what I mean? Once you know precisely how many votes you need to win, it’s easy to suppress additional Republican votes and “find” as many Democrat votes as necessary. That’s why subsequent tranches of tens of thousands of ballots contain not a single Republican vote.
And then the Democrat candidate that we thought lost actually wins. And then if you allege that something’s wrong, you’re called a conspiratorial nut or an election denier.
But Spencer Pratt was ahead by seven points, and Ms. [Nithya] Raman had already given a concession speech.
And now it’s a week after the polls closed, and suddenly these troves started appearing all week, in which it wasn’t 2-to-1. She was the third candidate when the election day tallies had begun, and we had about 50% to 60% of the vote. She was well behind Spencer Pratt and well, well behind Karen Bass.
Suddenly, these ballots started coming in, and they were overwhelmingly for the third candidate, Raman.
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And now, as I’m speaking, suddenly Spencer Pratt lost his lead that he had established and apparently everybody thought he had won. It’s a familiar pattern.
VDH is, as always, insightful, but in this case he’s technically wrong. California isn’t killing Democracy. It’s celebrating it in all its despotic, tribal, corrupt, majority-rules wonder.
The Founders rejected direct democracy because they knew it was mob rule where 50.0000001% get their way and can do to the minority whatever they please: take their property, liberty, even their life. That’s why Democrats constantly refer to “our democracy”—a tyranny of the majority–and never our constitutional, representative republic as established in Article IV, section 4 of the Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
The term “democracy” appears nowhere in the Constitution. That was no accidental omission by the Founders, but their carefully considered attempt to prevent totalitarian abominations like California and other blue states and their election fraud machines. They understood human nature exceedingly well and did their best to prevent its worst excesses. Until recently, their governance invention largely succeeded.
Our republican government, if followed, guarantees individual liberty. It doesn’t matter which party is in power, because their powers are limited, unless “our democracy” prevails and single-party states with corrupt executive, legislative, and judicial branches are allowed to ignore and violate the Constitution.
Benjamin Franklin said the Founders gave us a republic “if you can keep it.” It’s lost in California. Now we see if we can stop the spread of that cancer and keep it for the entire nation. The constitutional tools are there if we have the will and courage to do what’s necessary to use them.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.