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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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RFK Jr. announces lifelong Democrat, advocate of left-leaning causes, CA native as running mate

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan will be his vice presidential running mate in the upcoming election. The Independent candidate announced his choice for the 38-year-old Oakland, California native by praising her insight into “how Big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public,” her athletic ability, and willingness to be a “partner” in a number of policy areas, including on securing the border.

Fox News writes that Shanahan is a philanthropist with a long history of donating to Democrat and left-leaning causes, including supporting President Biden in his 2020 election bid before switching to Kennedy when he launched his own run for the Democrat nomination last year.

She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private firm that describes its mission as focused on “new frontiers in reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet.”

Fox News reports Shanahan initially dropped her support for Kennedy after he decided to run as an independent, but later got behind him again by giving $4 million to the super PAC that boosted his candidacy with a John F. Kennedy-themed campaign ad that ran during the Super Bowl in February.

Shanahan also previously donated to Democrat presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 presidential race, and threw more than $150,000 behind progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s 2020 election bid.

Shanahan, a life-long Democrat, told the crowd that she was leaving the party.

“The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of compassion. It is supposed to be the party of free speech, and most importantly, the party of the middle class and the American dream,” Shanahan said.

“While I know many Democrats still abide by those values…I do believe they’ve lost their way in their leadership,” she continued.

And she urged “disillusioned” Democrats and Republicans to support Kennedy’s independent White House bid.

 

 

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