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« Reply #100 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 05:08 pm »
As predicted. Time to stop counting, desired count achieved.
On one hand this upsets me greatly to see him get railroaded like this, but on the other hand it's California and it's to be expected and it's really hard to care.

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« Reply #102 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 05:10 pm »
Well imagine that!



https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/2063772730437075457
How can they call the race when they have another couple of weeks of counting to go?

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« Reply #103 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 05:11 pm »
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« Reply #106 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 05:35 pm »
How can they call the race when they have another couple of weeks of counting to go?

They got the count they needed. Time to stop.
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« Reply #107 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 05:38 pm »
They got the count they needed. Time to stop.

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« Reply #120 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 07:34 pm »
Hmmmm.  California government workers counting ballots on a Sunday.  Interesting.
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« Reply #121 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 07:38 pm »
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If you’re a Republican thinking of running in California in the future… seriously… why bother?

If Republicans were smart, they would show up at an election center saying they just found 100,000 Pratt ballots in the trunk of someone's car, and that by law they should demand that they be counted.

But then Republicans aren't smart.  They'd rather play victim instead of beating Democrats at their own game.
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« Reply #122 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 07:56 pm »
The vote counting after Election Day is stupid, however, there is no way Pratt was going to win Los Angeles.  Trump lost it 70-26.  He would be lucky to pull 20% today. 

Hilton may come within 25 points in November.   It’s California and it will not be remotely competitive. 

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« Reply #123 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 07:58 pm »
The vote counting after Election Day is stupid, however, there is no way Pratt was going to win Los Angeles.  Trump lost it 70-26.  He would be lucky to pull 20% today. 

Hilton may come within 25 points in November.   It’s California and it will not be remotely competitive.

Yeah, that's what they told John Fremont about his new Party back in 1856.
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« Reply #124 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 08:19 pm »
Yeah, that's what they told John Fremont about his new Party back in 1856.

It will have to be a new party, because they won’t even consider a Republican.  Evidently the lesbians in charge of LA aren’t progressive enough, so they are turning it over to a democratic socialist from India.

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« Reply #125 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 08:23 pm »
And I have no doubt there will be no more 'late ballot drops' and they just count what's already in-house, or if there are more drops, Raman's 'surge' will suddenly stop, on queue.
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« Reply #126 on: Sunday, Jun 07, 2026 08:36 pm »
It will have to be a new party, because they won’t even consider a Republican.  Evidently the lesbians in charge of LA aren’t progressive enough, so they are turning it over to a democratic socialist from India.

When you say 'they', you're referring to those who count the votes, right?

The Dems have rigged the system.  For all we know, Trump won California in 2024.  But the law allows Democrats to harvest ballots by any means necessary.  And it is with these harvested ballots that they decide elections.  And Republicans refuse to do a damn thing about it.
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« Reply #127 on: Today at 05:09 am »
When you say 'they', you're referring to those who count the votes, right?

The Dems have rigged the system.  For all we know, Trump won California in 2024.  But the law allows Democrats to harvest ballots by any means necessary.  And it is with these harvested ballots that they decide elections.  And Republicans refuse to do a damn thing about it.
The dems keep saying if the elections are rigged then prove it.  So far the repubs have been unable to do so.

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« Reply #128 on: Today at 05:13 am »
The dems keep saying if the elections are rigged then prove it.  So far the repubs have been unable to do so.

Unable, or unwilling?
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« Reply #129 on: Today at 05:16 am »
Unable, or unwilling?
Excellent question.

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« Reply #130 on: Today at 05:23 am »
Excellent question.

But there isn't much difference, functionality.   :shrug:
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« Reply #131 on: Today at 05:30 am »
No way that a marginal third place finisher legitimately races from so far behind to knock out the second place guy solely on last minute mail-in votes.  I'm seeing this morning that the Democrats shook down their homeless camps last week to produce the necessary yet unverifiable ballots to push Raman pass Pratt.
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« Reply #132 on: Today at 05:47 am »
No way that a marginal third place finisher legitimately races from so far behind to knock out the second place guy solely on last minute mail-in votes.  I'm seeing this morning that the Democrats shook down their homeless camps last week to produce the necessary yet unverifiable ballots to push Raman pass Pratt.
Proof????

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« Reply #133 on: Today at 05:54 am »
Proof????

That's the beauty of California's election system!  Nobody can prove anything!  Next step:  Boot Hilton out of the General Election....
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The dems keep saying if the elections are rigged then prove it.  So far the repubs have been unable to do so.

Again, ballot harvesting is legal in California.  The State mails out ballots completely unsolicited en masse each election with hundreds showing up at single locations.  Those ballots are collected and prepped to be turned in (also en masse) at a strategic time.  And if these ballots show up at an election center, they cannot be turned away.  They must be counted regardless of whether the votes are legitimate or even legal.

At the time this law was enacted, Orange County was home to seven GOP legislators.  SEVEN!  But at the next election, all seven lost their seats.  And it wasn't because their vote totals decreased.  On the contrary, they actually gained.  But the Democrat candidates opposing them saw their vote totals increase substantially, all after election day, and all with harvested ballots.

There is nothing legally the Republicans can do to fight it.  Their only hope is to show the absurdity of the law by doing the exact same thing, but at a level one magnitude higher.  When Republicans turn in 80 million ballots in a California election whose population is only 40 million and wins every Congressional seat in the State, then and only then will the law be changed.
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And people don't see a problem with this?

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Raman not only didn't even win her OWN district...

...but she didn't even place in the TOP TWO

So tell me, how does someone lose their own home district…

not even finish second there…

and then suddenly become the candidate surging in the late-counted ballots?

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« Reply #141 on: Today at 07:00 am »
More reading reminded me that Cali can harvest ballots and basically walk them in, no mailing required if I'm reading correctly, so no mail fraud.

Iowa tried that one election and stopped it because it was rife with fraud and zero chain of custody.

Don't know if there's a way around it without a court judgement or changes in the law.

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« Reply #142 on: Today at 07:06 am »
More reading reminded me that Cali can harvest ballots and basically walk them in, no mailing required if I'm reading correctly, so no mail fraud.

That is correct.  If you find a bag of ballots on the side of the road and turn them in to an election center, those ballots will be counted, no questions asked.

Republicans need to start doing this.  I am dead serious.  They need to turn in 80 million ballots that they claim to have found on the side of the road and take every seat - local, state, federal - in November.

You want the law changed?  This is how you do it.
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« Reply #143 on: Today at 07:14 am »
More reading reminded me that Cali can harvest ballots and basically walk them in, no mailing required if I'm reading correctly, so no mail fraud.

Iowa tried that one election and stopped it because it was rife with fraud and zero chain of custody.

Don't know if there's a way around it without a court judgement or changes in the law.

What happened to “One Man, One Vote”? That seems to be out the window with the California system.
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What happened to “One Man, One Vote”? That seems to be out the window with the California system.

In 2014 before the law was changed, the GOP won 14 of 53 Congressional seats out of roughly 6.5 million ballots counted.

In 2018 after ballot harvesting was legalized, the GOP won only 7 of 53 Congressional seats out of roughly 12.5 million ballots counted.

And instead of fighting back, Republicans simply sit back and take it.
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Headline:
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« Reply #147 on: Today at 08:12 am »
When you say 'they', you're referring to those who count the votes, right?

The Dems have rigged the system.  For all we know, Trump won California in 2024.  But the law allows Democrats to harvest ballots by any means necessary.  And it is with these harvested ballots that they decide elections.  And Republicans refuse to do a damn thing about it.

Republicans tend to claim election fraud whenever they lose, instead of using the same tactics as the Democrats.  I believe the local party made an effort in 2020 and regained some seats.  But it may be helpful to accept that California is now a left wing state, with every demographic moving in that direction similar to Oregon and Washington.  Their citizens just voted for prop 50 by an overwhelming margin and are about to impose a wealth tax over the objection of Gavin Newsom.

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« Reply #148 on: Today at 08:16 am »
Is California using the Homeless Industrial Complex to RIG Elections?

Duh.  But then we've known this for eight years now.  Except you can't mail a ballot to a person living under a bridge or on a sidewalk.  So conveniently, the Dems assigned each of those new homeless voters an address of some warehouse where their pristine ballot would be sent before each election.


WAKE THE F' UP, PEOPLE!  THIS ISN'T NEW!  THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT (AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE bleep) FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS!!!
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« Reply #149 on: Today at 08:18 am »
But it may be helpful to accept that California is now a left wing state

Helpful to whom?


with every demographic moving in that direction similar to Oregon and Washington

If that were the case, they'd have nothing to fear from Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton.  Yet they still cheat.  Go figure.
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