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10 million California mail-in ballots ‘unaccounted for’

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It is believed that not one, not two, but up to ten million mail-in ballots in California have gone unaccounted for in the state’s first major test of its universal mail-in voting program according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

In a report this month the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a watchdog group, claims California’s November elections were a huge fail as the state tested the mail-in program. Such a fail, that the state has nearly 10 million ballots have evaporated into thin air.

The report states “after accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding.” This means “election officials do not know what happened to them.”

“It is fair to assume that the bulk of these were ignored or ultimately thrown out by the intended recipients,” the group said. PILF argued that universal mail-in voting rules “have an insurmountable information gap.”

“The public cannot know how many ballots were disregarded, delivered to wrong mailboxes, or even withheld from the proper recipient by someone at the same address,” they wrote.

The group further noted that, in the 2022 primaries and elections, “226,250 mail ballots were rejected by election officials,” many due to signature problems or late submissions.

In 2021 California became one of a handful of states to adopt the universal mail-in voting policy, which means every voter in the state receives a ballot to vote via mail prior to an election.

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Videotapes from Jan. 6 Committee Witness Interviews Vanish

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Videotapes containing witness interviews conducted by the Democrat-led January 6 congressional committee have disappeared. The chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), expressed his apprehension on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show.

According to Loudermilk, all videotapes of depositions have vanished, raising questions about the preservation of crucial evidence. He argued that, under House rules, these tapes qualified as congressional evidence, especially since some clips were aired during hearings. Loudermilk contended that the tapes should have been preserved by the now-defunct Jan. 6 committee and its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).

Loudermilk’s revelation has broader implications, potentially impacting criminal trials in both state court in Georgia and federal court in Washington, where individuals, including former President Donald Trump, face charges related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Notably, Trump’s legal team had recently requested evidence from the Jan. 6 committee but was denied by a judge.

The situation takes a further twist as Loudermilk disclosed that the J6 committee had sent certain evidence, such as transcripts, to the Biden White House and the Homeland Security Department. Shockingly, these transcripts have now been returned to Loudermilk’s GOP-led subcommittee almost entirely redacted, preventing the disclosure of their contents.

The lack of records regarding witnesses, their statements, and the extensive redactions have raised concerns among House Republicans. Loudermilk emphasized that these documents belong to the House and should not have been sent in such a heavily redacted form. The chairman questioned the motives behind the redactions, asking why a Democrat-run House was allowed to have unredacted documents while a Republican committee’s efforts were obstructed. This development adds another layer of complexity to the ongoing investigations into the events surrounding January 6, 2021.

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