In California, every election is an SEIU election

It would seem logical that ballot counters in primary elections, would be chosen roughly the way juries are, with a pledge and training to be impartial, and no conflicts of interest.

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But that’s not how it’s done in California, where the SEIU Local 761 has sprinkled its election workers all through the election process in Southern California, including Los Angeles, while in Santa Clara County, it’s SEIU Local 521.

Besides printing and mailing ballots, and then counting votes as paid ‘election assistants,’ supposedly on a voluntary and temporary basis as state employees, the union has a separate operation where members harvest ballots, endorse leftists, and engage in other get-out-the-vote efforts, ensuring that the ballot harvesters always get to meet and greet the vote counters as union brothers. Given the public employee union’s power in the state  — Locals 1000, 1021, 221, 620, are the others — it’s reasonably sure that SEIU public employee union members are involved in elections all 58 counties, from both the campaign side, and the counting side.

On top of this, many of them donate money to candidates, too. 

A labor union this militant is going to count ballots impartially? A union that considers all out loyalty the only value is going to be fair? This wouldn’t explain why they’ve hired foreign nationals with labor militant experience in Latin America to team some of their efforts, as Peter Schweizer described in his new book, Invisible Coup.

They’ve even put out an endorsement for the current Secretary of State as ‘their’ person, which sounds like collusion, given that an SEIU endorsement is not given out without getting something in return. What did they get?

 And with members working on both the campaign side and the counting side, nobody’s concerned about conflict of interest?

Perhaps then we do have an answer as to why the counting in California is so slow — with empty counting stations as the California Post exposed, and why neither the union, nor the election officials under the control of the union, are particularly perturbed at public concerns about the speed or the loss of public confidence in elections that results. If they were, they’d require voter identification, and clean their dirty voter rolls, both factors of which they claim are extending the counting period because signatures supposedly need to be verified. They say ‘count all the ballots’ but California has been doing that for decades with far more primitive technologies and gotten the results in a day or two, while other states and even third world countries count all of their ballots in a matter of hours, too, and the job is done.

The Washington Post called this odd dithering ‘a national embarassment.’

Yet it doesn’t bother them a bit.

They don’t like whistleblowers exposing state wrongdoing, though — perhaps it would affect their involvement in elections:

And maybe because a slow, slow, slow vote tally is actually the plan, not just with the high potential for fraud and manipulation, but because the SEIU would be delighted if California’s conservative voters were so demoralized by the extended counting and ballot dumps that only go one way that they stop participating in elections. That was how Venezuela under the late, unlamented Hugo Chavez did it, starting at least in 2005 when a fraudy recall referendum the year earlier drove voters to stay home from the polls the following year. How they got the courage to come back after those experiences in the following elections, again and again over the next 20 years, only to see the same stealing, culminating in the 2024 election where Maria Corina Machado was waiting for them and was able to prove sunstantial fraud, is testimony to their tremendous courage — and a message to the Trump administration and everyone else about the depth of her public support. 

Extending counting, in fact, seems to be not a side effect of thoroughness, as state officials and Democrat pols claim, but an actual strategy.

The SEIU was reportedly powerful enough to set the extended and relaxed schedule, meaning, voters would wait 37 days before learning the result of the election, with a week here, a week there, union shop rules and all, no inhumane working conditions …

… when of course, the extended counting gives the SEIU’s openly politicized ballot-harvesting side all the time it needs to manipulate the vote totals as the first results come out and continue to bring ballot dumps in through the week, to ensure they get the result they want, if they so choose.

The longer the tally goes, and the more the state officials defend it, the lower the confidence in the integrity of the election by the public. Too much can happen between the first counting and the month-away counting for anyone to believe it. The count-all-the-votes trope, far from increasing public confidence, diminishes it. And with conflicts of interest galore, fraud can march in any time, and very likely already has. 

It raises questions about why any public employee unions are permitted at all in so sacred a democratic processs as counting the votes. They are far too partisan, far too conflicted, and far too cognizant in the ways of trickery and goonery to legitimize any state election. They really need to be banned from any government involvement, including jobs.

After California’s election is stolen, perhaps that’s where the battle is going to be.

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