Social media reacts to mail-in ballots being used for the California gubernatorial recall election.
QUICK FACTS:
- California voters will be able to cast their votes during the upcoming special election using ballot drop boxes installed by the LA County Registrar for last November’s Election Day.
- “All registered voters will receive a vote by mail ballot,” according to Spectrum News 1 News.
- “Voters will have two questions on the ballot: 1) Shall Gavin Newsom be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor? 2) Candidates to succeed Gavin Newsom as Governor if he is recalled (followed by a list of candidates to select from).”
- Mailing begins on August 16.
BACKGROUND:
- In May 2020, Gov. Newsom signed an executive order sending every registered voter in California a mail-in ballot for November’s presidential election, which “immediately [raised] concerns from Republicans that it could lead to fraud and abuse,” according to Fox News.
- “To mail out millions of ballots to voter rolls have proven to contain alarming errors throughout the state is not a task that these Democrats can adequately manage or safely execute,” Jessica Millan Patterson, chairman of the California Republican Party, said in a statement.
- “Mail ballots, they cheat,” Trump said the month prior. “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases.”
- In February of this year, the California State Legislature passed a bill “that would require all active registered voters get a ballot in the mail ahead of the election even if they didn’t ask for one,” reports KTLA 5.
- Newsom will be facing conservative favorite, talk show host Larry Elder.
THE INTERNET REACTS:
- But online voices have been quick to point out the connection between California’s decision to use mail-in ballots and 2020 election fraud claims.
- For example, the Maricopa County, Arizona election audit has revealed significant discrepancies among tens of thousands of mail-in ballots used in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
- American Faith reported how Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan informed Arizona Senate leaders during an audit hearing that election auditors could not account for more than 74,000 mail-in ballots which had been counted during the election but without the county having any record of sending the ballots out.
- “We have 74,000 mail-in ballots where there’s no clear record of them being sent,” said Logan.
- See reactions to California’s decision to use mail-in ballots for its recall election on social media below.