Americans shouldn’t be surprised that California, the same state that tolerated millions of dollars of fraud in hospice care and homeless programs, can’t run an election efficiently. “The way you do one thing is the way you do everything,” says Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).
Eggers, appearing on the Allen Jackson Now program, commented on the glacial pace of counting ballots in that state’s gubernatorial and LA mayoral races, which occurred two weeks ago and won’t be completed until nearly July.
“The reality is that between automatic voter registration, mailing everybody a ballot, the lengthy and unnecessary curing process [for incomplete ballots] and a number of other laws they put into place, California’s elections this week put it in the national spotlight for good reason,” he told Jackson.
He was responding to a comment by Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host who placed second (at least for now) in the state’s “jungle primary. “Everywhere you look – crime, chaos, homelessness, the high-speed rail they can’t finish – and now they can’t even count votes properly,” Hilton said. “It’s just an example of how these people can’t run anything.”
Eggers wrote a 2018 book on election fraud, called FRAUD: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election, and noted that since the book came out, other states have improved their election security and efficiency while California has gone in the opposite direction, legalizing “ballot harvesting” by third parties, absolutely banning the requirement for voter ID in any election in the state, and other measures that have led to the state’s inability to count election results quickly.
“You have the flaws held up on a national scale, and I think you’re embarrassed, as Florida was, correctly, after the 2000 presidential election. They put in laws and protocols in place to correct it, and now Florida counts all their ballots on the same night of the election,” Eggers told Jackson. “We don’t allow these late arriving ballots unless they’re from the military. We have voter ID laws, while California has the opposite… There’s the phrase, ‘laboratories of democracy.’ And people can see what happens in one laboratory in California versus what happens in states like Florida.
“You, and the team at the GAI, are research experts in these states where the fraud is so widespread and there are billions of dollars involved,” Jackson told Eggers. “Yet, the voters don’t seem to express any concern. Is there anything that suggests how the voters can be that numb to crime at that level?” he asked.
“The reason why people aren’t more outraged by the fraud is that so many different populations are on the receiving end of the fraud. Democrat party officials, unfortunately, are supported by those populations that are on the receiving end of the fraud,” Eggers replied. “So, there’s not a significant amount of public will in these blue states to stop it.”
