1 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:04,380 Fans of this podcast will know that last week I went off script. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,600 I stopped talking about backups and cyber recovery, and I talked about California 3 00:00:10,020 --> 00:00:15,520 and, um, you know, what's going on here in the elections in California. 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,689 A- at this point, it's now been a week later, I got some comments. 5 00:00:19,719 --> 00:00:23,599 I got a lot of views on that, uh, and a lot of listens on that particular 6 00:00:23,599 --> 00:00:25,129 episode, and I'm, I'm glad for that. 7 00:00:25,209 --> 00:00:27,279 I, I hope that it helped some people. 8 00:00:28,509 --> 00:00:33,949 But, I also got a lot of comments, and I got a lot of comments about, 9 00:00:33,989 --> 00:00:39,049 um, you know, other or specific claims about, voter fraud. 10 00:00:39,569 --> 00:00:42,739 And th- th- some of them are, are crazy. 11 00:00:44,219 --> 00:00:46,879 Um, almost all of them are completely false. 12 00:00:47,609 --> 00:00:53,109 And, um, almost all of them are based on a tiny… Like, like any good lie, right? 13 00:00:53,129 --> 00:00:56,749 It's based on a tiny, uh, morsel of truth. 14 00:00:57,179 --> 00:01:01,439 And in one case, believe it or not, I was as surprised as you 15 00:01:01,449 --> 00:01:06,699 will be, one of them, possibly the craziest one, was actually true. 16 00:01:07,169 --> 00:01:08,219 you'll have to wait till the end. 17 00:01:08,219 --> 00:01:11,100 I'm gonna, I'm gonna save the, the good stuff, to the end. 18 00:01:27,469 --> 00:01:33,559 and so I'm gonna do, an episode on the specific claims of voter fraud. 19 00:01:34,199 --> 00:01:35,959 And, I'm gonna give you the details. 20 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:37,899 I'm gonna, I'm gonna give references so that you can, 21 00:01:37,909 --> 00:01:39,589 you can check my work, right? 22 00:01:39,619 --> 00:01:41,499 Um, I don't, I don't want you to believe me. 23 00:01:41,629 --> 00:01:43,899 Just go directly to the source of data. 24 00:01:44,399 --> 00:01:49,579 And, and most of these things, uh, they just make no sense, if you actually 25 00:01:49,579 --> 00:01:52,949 understand how things actually work here or if you just sort of apply some logic. 26 00:01:53,549 --> 00:01:57,499 but, um, but again, I, I, I'll show my work, uh, when I can. 27 00:01:57,499 --> 00:02:05,679 I wanna talk especially about the mayoral race in Los Angeles, because that, for 28 00:02:05,679 --> 00:02:07,939 some reason, got a ton of attention. 29 00:02:07,949 --> 00:02:13,669 and probably because, in this case, Spencer Pratt, the Republican 30 00:02:13,669 --> 00:02:16,659 candidate, did not make the primary. 31 00:02:16,669 --> 00:02:20,419 Here in California, we have what, what's called a jungle primary, where 32 00:02:20,719 --> 00:02:22,789 we don't have party or b- primary… 33 00:02:22,789 --> 00:02:28,309 This is for state races, that we, we don't have a, sort of a typical primary. 34 00:02:28,309 --> 00:02:32,149 We have a jungle primary, which means the top two people who get the most 35 00:02:32,169 --> 00:02:34,769 votes advance to the general election. 36 00:02:35,159 --> 00:02:39,709 And if those two people happen to be from the same party, so be it. 37 00:02:40,139 --> 00:02:44,829 And, believe it or not, a few months ago, you know, the way things were looking, 38 00:02:45,499 --> 00:02:50,089 we were actually, thinking that we were going to get an all-Republican race, 39 00:02:50,109 --> 00:02:57,159 uh, before-- Because Eric Swalwell was not looking good in the polls and, um, 40 00:02:57,419 --> 00:02:59,719 um, Steve Hilton was looking better. 41 00:03:00,099 --> 00:03:05,189 And, Chad Bianco, which is the sheriff in Riverside, uh, was looking better 42 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:09,029 than Eric Swalwell, which, who was the leading candidate at the time. 43 00:03:10,109 --> 00:03:16,319 But Eric Swalwell dropped out for, SA allegations and, rightly so. 44 00:03:16,959 --> 00:03:22,869 and that basically blew things up, and there was a toss-up, and then 45 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:27,219 suddenly, Becerra became much more popular, in the Democrat side. 46 00:03:27,679 --> 00:03:30,929 And so we ended up with a very different race on the governor side. 47 00:03:30,929 --> 00:03:34,289 My point is that there was a time when we thought we were actually gonna end up 48 00:03:34,289 --> 00:03:40,159 with, um, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco as the two candidates for, uh, governor. 49 00:03:40,789 --> 00:03:44,309 That there were too, basically there were too many Democrat candidates, 50 00:03:44,309 --> 00:03:45,729 and they were splitting up the vote. 51 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:51,129 And, um, and so that's how we thought we were gonna end up 52 00:03:51,129 --> 00:03:53,199 with, uh, those two candidates. 53 00:03:53,889 --> 00:03:57,009 But things changed after Eric Swalwell dropped out. 54 00:03:57,019 --> 00:04:03,899 the popularity, centered around Becerra and, Tom Steyer what ended up happening 55 00:04:03,909 --> 00:04:09,589 there was just like often happens in California, because you get a lot of 56 00:04:09,609 --> 00:04:15,649 people who vote early and a lot of, uh, Republicans… Basically, w- this 57 00:04:15,649 --> 00:04:20,959 happened in both the governor's race and the mayor race, but the LA mayor 58 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:22,399 race, but the results were different. 59 00:04:23,099 --> 00:04:29,379 So what happens is that the Republicans are being told by their leadership you 60 00:04:29,379 --> 00:04:32,979 should vote on or before the Election Day, and you should vote in person, 61 00:04:32,979 --> 00:04:36,159 and you should vote, you know, that, that basically they have this strong 62 00:04:36,159 --> 00:04:42,029 belief that your ballot should get in by Election Day, that, that waiting till 63 00:04:42,029 --> 00:04:45,779 the last possible minute to drop off your ballot is, is somehow wrong, even though 64 00:04:45,779 --> 00:04:47,769 it's in keeping with California law. 65 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:53,909 And so Republicans tend to either vote in person at the polls or, m- 66 00:04:53,919 --> 00:04:55,599 send in their mail ballot early. 67 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:01,619 And, um, whereas Democrats, especially in this particular election, were 68 00:05:01,629 --> 00:05:05,439 voting very strategically, and they didn't have a problem with putting 69 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:08,579 in a last-minute ba- mail ballot, and that's really important to understand. 70 00:05:08,579 --> 00:05:13,859 And, and by the way, that what I just said comes fr- the, the statement 71 00:05:13,869 --> 00:05:17,599 i- is just, that's a, it's a big generalization and not everybody did 72 00:05:17,599 --> 00:05:20,989 that, but I think the data bears that out. 73 00:05:21,049 --> 00:05:24,329 You see what happened in the, the state race, and you see 74 00:05:24,329 --> 00:05:25,619 what happened in the mayor race. 75 00:05:26,289 --> 00:05:28,509 and I, I can now talk about it in the past tense. 76 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:34,799 So what happened was you saw a lot of ba- it, there was a huge surge 77 00:05:34,859 --> 00:05:41,409 of mail-in ballots dropped off on or just before Election Day, and that 78 00:05:41,429 --> 00:05:45,989 meant that they had to, validate the signatures on a ton of ballots. 79 00:05:45,999 --> 00:05:51,129 So in case of San Diego County, it was roughly 800,000 ballots that 80 00:05:51,129 --> 00:05:53,279 were turned in on Election Day. 81 00:05:53,329 --> 00:05:57,329 Actually a very small number, last time I checked it was, like, 30,000 82 00:05:57,329 --> 00:05:59,019 that came in after Election Day. 83 00:05:59,019 --> 00:06:02,789 But again, in California, as long as it's, postmarked by Election Day and 84 00:06:02,789 --> 00:06:05,729 received within a week of Election Day, those ballots would still be counted. 85 00:06:06,739 --> 00:06:10,979 and yes, I know that there's a Supreme Court case, on the docket right now, uh, 86 00:06:10,979 --> 00:06:14,339 trying to see whether or not, that, the Supreme Court decides that that's legal. 87 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:22,679 so you had this s- big surge, and because of how, Republicans tend to vote, the 88 00:06:22,679 --> 00:06:27,679 surge, and the votes that would then be verified after Election Day, not just 89 00:06:27,679 --> 00:06:31,009 the ones that came in after Election Day, but just the verif- the ballots 90 00:06:31,009 --> 00:06:36,249 that all came in on Election Day, they tended to lean Democratic in California, 91 00:06:36,719 --> 00:06:40,009 and even more so in, uh, Los Angeles. 92 00:06:41,139 --> 00:06:46,899 And so the results, um, were different between the two, and, and 93 00:06:46,899 --> 00:06:49,639 there was… There were all these accusations of, of fraud because 94 00:06:49,639 --> 00:06:51,279 it's, it's statistically impossible. 95 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,089 That was a phrase I saw all last week. 96 00:06:53,339 --> 00:06:56,299 It's statistically impossible for it s- to rocket off like that. 97 00:06:56,309 --> 00:07:00,269 The only way is that they're making up votes and, and, um, or 98 00:07:00,269 --> 00:07:01,259 they're, or they're not counting. 99 00:07:01,259 --> 00:07:04,399 That was i- that was basically all the conspiracy theories 100 00:07:05,339 --> 00:07:06,339 were one way or the other. 101 00:07:06,349 --> 00:07:11,249 Either they're making up fake votes or they're not counting, real votes for 102 00:07:11,529 --> 00:07:15,299 the Republican candidates, and neither of those things has any basis in fact. 103 00:07:15,999 --> 00:07:22,741 and, um, so one of the things that you saw, and you see it still repeated to 104 00:07:22,741 --> 00:07:28,461 this day, was there was this one moment when there was a vote count reported, by 105 00:07:28,481 --> 00:07:34,471 the Associated Press where, the, um, the s- one of the candidates got a, they use 106 00:07:34,471 --> 00:07:36,021 the word a tranche of ballots, right? 107 00:07:36,021 --> 00:07:38,751 they tend to report them in batches, right? 108 00:07:38,751 --> 00:07:40,631 In San Diego, they do them once a day. 109 00:07:40,981 --> 00:07:45,811 and then there was this one moment, and I do say moment, where they 110 00:07:45,811 --> 00:07:51,461 had added something like 30,000 ballots to, Nithya Raman and, the, 111 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:54,401 and zero ballots to Spencer Pratt. 112 00:07:55,371 --> 00:07:59,521 People made a comment, and then, the AP realized it was a reporting error, 113 00:07:59,521 --> 00:08:00,741 and they fixed the reporting error. 114 00:08:00,741 --> 00:08:04,521 The, there… If you look at the official record on the Los Angeles 115 00:08:04,521 --> 00:08:09,791 site that's, you know, this, tranche by tranche, there is no time when a bunch 116 00:08:09,791 --> 00:08:14,621 of votes got added to one candidate and no votes added to Spencer Pratt. 117 00:08:14,641 --> 00:08:16,681 It was simply a reporting error. 118 00:08:17,131 --> 00:08:18,871 AP has said it's a reporting error. 119 00:08:19,131 --> 00:08:24,771 It was investigated by the, um, the, US attorney, and, it's just not an event. 120 00:08:24,791 --> 00:08:26,791 but people keep bringing it up, okay? 121 00:08:26,921 --> 00:08:29,361 So that's just, that's just completely false. 122 00:08:30,101 --> 00:08:34,651 the other is this idea that, it's the opposite of this, and that is that, uh, 123 00:08:34,991 --> 00:08:40,131 you're seeing claims on, on social media that tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt 124 00:08:40,131 --> 00:08:44,581 voters are having their mail ballots rejected for signature verification. 125 00:08:45,271 --> 00:08:48,981 And the implication there is that they're just rejecting the Sim- the 126 00:08:48,981 --> 00:08:53,121 Spencer Pratt votes, and that if they had just accepted the Spencer Pratt 127 00:08:53,131 --> 00:08:58,171 votes, that, that Spencer Pratt could have won over, uh, Nithya Raman. 128 00:08:58,661 --> 00:09:02,571 And the thing is that neither of those things are true so the first reason that 129 00:09:02,571 --> 00:09:08,481 it's not true is that the ballots are all in the same colored envelope, right? 130 00:09:08,521 --> 00:09:12,431 Uh, regardless of your party, your, um, your mail-in ballot comes in, 131 00:09:12,431 --> 00:09:14,911 it looks exactly the same as the other person's mail-in ballot. 132 00:09:15,231 --> 00:09:19,071 And the ballot isn't opened, and isn't… No one looks inside 133 00:09:19,081 --> 00:09:23,311 that ballot until the signature verification process is complete. 134 00:09:23,841 --> 00:09:28,881 And so the idea that they were somehow figuring out what was in these mail 135 00:09:28,891 --> 00:09:33,111 ballots and then rejecting ballots because they were Spencer Pratt is simply 136 00:09:33,111 --> 00:09:37,671 not possible, because they, because that's just not how it works, right? 137 00:09:37,671 --> 00:09:40,541 the signature verification process happens before the envelope is 138 00:09:40,541 --> 00:09:44,751 ever opened, so the idea that they could somehow reject just Spencer 139 00:09:44,751 --> 00:09:46,931 Pratt votes is simply not possible. 140 00:09:47,161 --> 00:09:52,521 And second Even if that was the case, which it's not, even if that was the case, 141 00:09:52,681 --> 00:09:59,451 the number of votes that were rejected for signature issues, were 12,702 in the 142 00:09:59,451 --> 00:10:05,231 entire Los Angeles County, which means that for the Los Angeles mayor, it's 143 00:10:05,231 --> 00:10:06,631 gonna be some number less than that. 144 00:10:06,631 --> 00:10:12,651 With the, the LA County, s- didn't give a, a number for the Los Angeles city, but 145 00:10:12,651 --> 00:10:14,381 they gave a number for Los Angeles County. 146 00:10:14,881 --> 00:10:19,791 And, that was the margin of votes between, Pratt and Raman was 30,000. 147 00:10:19,791 --> 00:10:23,801 So even if all 12,700 votes, which weren't even all Los Angeles city 148 00:10:23,801 --> 00:10:26,811 votes, even if all of them were Spencer Pratt votes, and then they all passed 149 00:10:26,811 --> 00:10:29,911 signature verification, and they were all added to it, it wouldn't 150 00:10:29,911 --> 00:10:31,161 have changed the results of the race. 151 00:10:31,321 --> 00:10:34,281 So that's just completely false from beginning to end, 152 00:10:34,301 --> 00:10:36,161 and makes absolutely no sense. 153 00:10:36,641 --> 00:10:40,891 I would also like to just point out, this isn't, like, a, it's not one 154 00:10:40,891 --> 00:10:45,211 of the claims that I'm refuting, but this idea that why in the world, i- 155 00:10:45,461 --> 00:10:49,641 if the Democrat Party wanted to, the fix was in, what they want is they, 156 00:10:49,691 --> 00:10:52,491 th- they want this person in, okay? 157 00:10:52,841 --> 00:10:56,351 So if they wanted the Democrat, th- obviously they have a preferred 158 00:10:56,361 --> 00:11:01,411 Democrat, whether it's Bass or Raman, they have a preferred Democrat. 159 00:11:01,411 --> 00:11:07,731 If they wanted to fix the election, then they would've more than likely, again, 160 00:11:07,761 --> 00:11:11,191 they didn't do this, but if they would have, they would've fixed it so that they 161 00:11:11,191 --> 00:11:16,031 were running against Pratt, because in Los Angeles, it's one of the most liberal 162 00:11:16,041 --> 00:11:20,711 cities in the United States, they, they would've set it up so that the pref- their 163 00:11:20,721 --> 00:11:25,311 preferred candidate, whether that was Bass or Raman, was running against Pratt, 164 00:11:25,671 --> 00:11:31,551 because he just isn't going to get enough votes in Los Angeles County to, to win. 165 00:11:31,921 --> 00:11:33,431 Uh, it's just not gonna happen. 166 00:11:33,791 --> 00:11:39,251 And, the, um, And so if they wanted to fix the election, that's 167 00:11:39,251 --> 00:11:40,111 the way they would've fixed it. 168 00:11:40,111 --> 00:11:41,061 They wouldn't have kicked him out. 169 00:11:41,251 --> 00:11:46,441 Now what we have is we have a, the current mayor is now battling a very 170 00:11:46,441 --> 00:11:49,011 popular, very progressive candidate. 171 00:11:49,371 --> 00:11:51,621 This is honestly a toss-up. 172 00:11:52,101 --> 00:11:53,961 Who knows what's gonna be the results of this race? 173 00:11:53,971 --> 00:11:57,221 so if somebody was trying to fix things, they sure didn't fix it very 174 00:11:57,221 --> 00:12:03,431 well, I also wanna just, again, going back to the mayoral race, I think 175 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:08,911 it's really important to note that Spencer Pratt got 26% of the vote. 176 00:12:09,291 --> 00:12:10,231 Why does that matter? 177 00:12:11,721 --> 00:12:17,081 Ask yourself What percentage of the vote did Donald Trump get when he was running 178 00:12:17,291 --> 00:12:19,731 for president in Los Angeles County? 179 00:12:20,001 --> 00:12:21,281 You know what that percentage was? 180 00:12:21,501 --> 00:12:26,571 27%. So Spencer Pratt got almost exactly the same percentage of votes that 181 00:12:26,571 --> 00:12:29,011 Donald Trump got in the 2024 election. 182 00:12:30,031 --> 00:12:33,181 uh, it's just nonsense, Again, no basis in fact. 183 00:12:33,691 --> 00:12:37,401 now let's talk about the fact that there was a surge of ballots, both 184 00:12:37,421 --> 00:12:43,801 in the, in the, um, the, the governor race and the ma- the LA mayor race. 185 00:12:44,451 --> 00:12:49,251 there was a surge and there was a sort of a one candidate took off, 186 00:12:49,601 --> 00:12:53,461 at a much greater rate than, than the Republican candidate, right? 187 00:12:53,751 --> 00:12:59,991 So in the case of, the governor race, Becerra really took off after the election 188 00:13:00,011 --> 00:13:05,851 and they started verifying signatures, and, uh, Steyer took off at a faster rate 189 00:13:05,891 --> 00:13:11,101 than, Hilton, but not at a rate enough to catch up to him and overtake him the 190 00:13:11,101 --> 00:13:13,231 way that things happen in Los Angeles. 191 00:13:13,241 --> 00:13:18,071 In Los Angeles, if you look at the votes, actually after the 192 00:13:18,071 --> 00:13:23,531 election, There was sort of a rocket-like, phenomenon on Raman. 193 00:13:23,851 --> 00:13:26,031 so a lot of people are like, "Look at that." It's, again, 194 00:13:26,041 --> 00:13:27,371 statistically impossible. 195 00:13:27,761 --> 00:13:32,951 She's more popular than Bass in the second, in the, the latter half of 196 00:13:32,951 --> 00:13:34,731 thing when they were counting votes. 197 00:13:35,041 --> 00:13:36,821 So let's just talk about this. 198 00:13:37,451 --> 00:13:41,211 the first one with the, with the governor's race, it's just the red mirage. 199 00:13:41,221 --> 00:13:44,061 It's the s- I talked about this on the last episode. 200 00:13:44,781 --> 00:13:49,291 Republicans tend to vote earlier because they think that's the right thing to do. 201 00:13:49,331 --> 00:13:52,021 They think that the way the Democrats are voting in California 202 00:13:52,031 --> 00:13:53,261 is just fundamentally wrong. 203 00:13:53,261 --> 00:13:54,811 I've talked to a lot of them online. 204 00:13:54,811 --> 00:13:56,861 It's just, it's just wrong, right? 205 00:13:56,871 --> 00:13:59,761 It's just wrong the way they vote in California, and so they tend to vote 206 00:13:59,841 --> 00:14:05,151 early or they tend to vote in person, which means that the bulk, not all, 207 00:14:05,251 --> 00:14:10,201 but more than not, the mail-in ballots, especially ones turned in towards the 208 00:14:10,201 --> 00:14:12,431 end, are going to lean heavily Democratic. 209 00:14:12,951 --> 00:14:15,121 And so it's not, it's not a surprise. 210 00:14:15,121 --> 00:14:17,381 This is why they call it the red mirage, right? 211 00:14:17,381 --> 00:14:19,881 The same thing happened to Donald Trump in 2020. 212 00:14:19,921 --> 00:14:22,881 They had initially thought he was winning, but then as they started 213 00:14:22,881 --> 00:14:26,831 counting the mail ballots in some states, then, the, you know, he ended 214 00:14:26,831 --> 00:14:28,401 up losing that particular election. 215 00:14:29,131 --> 00:14:33,961 but what happened in the mayor race was, I think if you don't have any 216 00:14:33,961 --> 00:14:39,421 context, if you just look at it without any knowledge of the way Democrats 217 00:14:39,421 --> 00:14:45,361 were thinking in, California, then, it does look a little suspect, okay? 218 00:14:46,439 --> 00:14:48,759 So let me explain what I think happened. 219 00:14:49,119 --> 00:14:53,219 Again, I don't have proof for this, but when I look at the numbers, 220 00:14:53,509 --> 00:14:54,549 this is what I think happened. 221 00:14:54,599 --> 00:14:59,649 I do have some anecdotal evidence to suggest that the same thing happened 222 00:14:59,649 --> 00:15:02,099 to Styer that happened to, Raman. 223 00:15:02,289 --> 00:15:03,679 it's just the results were different. 224 00:15:04,659 --> 00:15:08,679 So I talked to more than a handful of people who were voting for 225 00:15:08,979 --> 00:15:10,499 not their preferred candidate. 226 00:15:10,509 --> 00:15:13,079 In this case, they were voting for Styer and not Becerra, 227 00:15:13,539 --> 00:15:15,049 I don't live in Los Angeles. 228 00:15:15,049 --> 00:15:18,949 I, I didn't speak to any LA voters, but, I did speak to people 229 00:15:18,949 --> 00:15:22,679 who were voting for, Styer even though they wanted Becerra to win. 230 00:15:22,719 --> 00:15:23,739 Now, why would they do that? 231 00:15:23,739 --> 00:15:24,899 It makes no sense. 232 00:15:25,429 --> 00:15:31,009 The reason was that at some point, especially later in the race, uh, meaning 233 00:15:31,049 --> 00:15:36,099 as we were getting close to the election, it looked like Becerra was in, right? 234 00:15:36,119 --> 00:15:40,869 Becerra was going to, to win, so he was definitely gonna be in the top two. 235 00:15:41,369 --> 00:15:44,639 And so because of the jungle primary, people said, "Well, if he's 236 00:15:44,639 --> 00:15:48,559 gonna win, I'd like to see if we can kick the, the Republican out. 237 00:15:48,589 --> 00:15:52,129 I'd like to see if we can oust the Republican due to the jungle primary 238 00:15:52,169 --> 00:15:56,419 out of the governor's race altogether," the, like what happened in Los Angeles. 239 00:15:56,449 --> 00:16:01,609 And so they voted for Styer even though when it came to the general election, 240 00:16:01,619 --> 00:16:02,889 they were gonna vote for Becerra. 241 00:16:02,899 --> 00:16:05,879 I talked to multiple voters who were doing exactly that. 242 00:16:06,469 --> 00:16:09,899 I partic- I personally, I disagree with that tactic. 243 00:16:09,949 --> 00:16:13,829 I would rather vote for the guy that I think, that I think should win 244 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:18,099 or, and I want to win, and I would v- I would vote for that candidate. 245 00:16:18,209 --> 00:16:20,919 I'm not a fan of the jungle primary, I'll just say that. 246 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:24,409 I'd rather have a person of each party and let them duke it out in the general. 247 00:16:24,929 --> 00:16:27,369 But, I, I… To me, that's a risky vote. 248 00:16:27,369 --> 00:16:29,849 but I talked to multiple people that's what they're doing. 249 00:16:30,579 --> 00:16:32,699 Now let's go over to, the mayor race. 250 00:16:32,699 --> 00:16:35,249 So, and here we have an incumbent, right? 251 00:16:35,329 --> 00:16:41,309 So, the incumbent Bass, again, the polls were saying she's in there, right? 252 00:16:41,319 --> 00:16:43,919 She's going to, essentially win the primary. 253 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:45,769 She's gonna get the most votes in the primary. 254 00:16:45,769 --> 00:16:49,469 So, really all we're arguing about is the second vote, that she's, you know, that 255 00:16:49,469 --> 00:16:53,929 she's popular enough as the current mayor that she was going to be in there, right? 256 00:16:54,809 --> 00:16:56,049 And This is what I think happened. 257 00:16:56,049 --> 00:16:58,609 I don't know this 'cause I didn't talk to anybody specifically, but I th- 258 00:16:58,629 --> 00:17:02,679 but I think they did the same thing with Raman that they did with Stier. 259 00:17:03,659 --> 00:17:09,449 They want, they wanted Bass to win, or maybe they'd be okay with either 260 00:17:09,449 --> 00:17:12,799 candidate, but what they really wanted was they wanted for the Republican 261 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:14,999 not to be in the primary at all. 262 00:17:15,009 --> 00:17:17,209 They'd be comfortable with either Democrat, but they don't want the 263 00:17:17,209 --> 00:17:18,579 Republican in the primary at all. 264 00:17:19,159 --> 00:17:23,419 And so they knew Bass was gonna get enough votes to be qual- to qualify, 265 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:29,279 and so they went ahead at, towards the end, right at the end, right? 266 00:17:29,289 --> 00:17:33,919 They put in a ballot, not just a Democratic ballot, but a ballot for Raman. 267 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:38,089 And, and they mailed, they mailed some of those at the last minute, or they put 268 00:17:38,089 --> 00:17:43,039 them in at the last minute, and the result was that once they started counting mail 269 00:17:43,049 --> 00:17:48,289 ballots, actually Raman took off like a rocket, um, at a higher rate than Bass 270 00:17:48,289 --> 00:17:50,939 did, and she took off fast enough to, 271 00:17:50,969 --> 00:17:55,671 To overtake Spencer Pratt It, it makes perfect sense to me. 272 00:17:55,861 --> 00:18:00,171 Again, I know that there are plenty of you probably listening that are saying, 273 00:18:00,181 --> 00:18:02,861 you know, "You shouldn't do it that way." Well, that's the way we do it 274 00:18:02,861 --> 00:18:04,551 here in California, and it makes sense. 275 00:18:04,591 --> 00:18:07,681 It doesn't, to me, it doesn't in any way spell fraud. 276 00:18:07,941 --> 00:18:12,941 It just says that, the way we do ballots in California, that there were… 277 00:18:12,961 --> 00:18:16,541 I definitely know people that were strategically voting and giving that 278 00:18:16,621 --> 00:18:20,381 other vote to the other candidate, and I think that's what happened in her case. 279 00:18:20,611 --> 00:18:22,911 Will she win in the p- in the actual general? 280 00:18:22,941 --> 00:18:24,141 Who knows, right? 281 00:18:25,031 --> 00:18:26,831 so that's the whole late surge thing. 282 00:18:27,041 --> 00:18:31,281 So here's another one, and it sounds kinda crazy, and it's the one that 283 00:18:31,281 --> 00:18:33,701 has the most kernel of truth so far. 284 00:18:34,331 --> 00:18:37,431 And that is, "Man, over there in California, you can just register to vote 285 00:18:37,431 --> 00:18:44,011 with a gym membership card." And that's not true at all, but it sort of is. 286 00:18:44,321 --> 00:18:45,661 So here's what it is. 287 00:18:45,821 --> 00:18:50,971 When you register to vote in California, you need to give identifying 288 00:18:50,971 --> 00:18:55,021 information, so because when you're filling out an application to register 289 00:18:55,211 --> 00:18:58,931 or you're filling out a conditional voter registration at the polls, you 290 00:18:58,931 --> 00:19:02,311 need to give enough information for them to verify that you are a real 291 00:19:02,311 --> 00:19:04,951 person, and a resident of California. 292 00:19:05,651 --> 00:19:10,201 And, um, now notice I did not mention citizenship status there, 293 00:19:10,761 --> 00:19:12,611 and I'm gonna be very open here. 294 00:19:13,031 --> 00:19:17,031 I I don't wanna speak for the different registrars, but I couldn't 295 00:19:17,031 --> 00:19:21,341 find any evidence that there was any attempt, official attempt, 296 00:19:21,361 --> 00:19:25,707 to verify the citizenship status of people when they register. 297 00:19:26,267 --> 00:19:30,057 They just have to, under penalty of perjury, certify 298 00:19:30,057 --> 00:19:32,207 that they are a citizen, right? 299 00:19:32,427 --> 00:19:36,017 And doing so, if you're not a citizen, is a felony, right? 300 00:19:36,057 --> 00:19:39,387 And then voting with that registration would then be another felony. 301 00:19:40,367 --> 00:19:44,157 and again, th- there have been… and I'm gonna s- some of you 302 00:19:44,157 --> 00:19:45,187 are listening and go, "Aha! 303 00:19:45,247 --> 00:19:45,647 There it is. 304 00:19:45,647 --> 00:19:46,627 There's the fraud." No. 305 00:19:46,767 --> 00:19:49,287 There's the possibility of fraud, sure. 306 00:19:49,737 --> 00:19:54,727 But, there's no evidence of any significant amount of non-citizens voting, 307 00:19:54,727 --> 00:19:57,697 and trust me, groups have looked for that. 308 00:19:58,117 --> 00:20:02,517 and I also wanna throw this out, is, is they're like, "Oh, so crazy there in 309 00:20:02,517 --> 00:20:08,007 California. You, you know, they no rules, no whatever." again, I researched this, 310 00:20:08,007 --> 00:20:12,897 and what I found was that only six states require proof of citizenship to vote 311 00:20:14,129 --> 00:20:16,119 It's not just crazy California, right? 312 00:20:16,219 --> 00:20:20,699 it, they, again, most states, the bulk of states, they simply require 313 00:20:20,699 --> 00:20:24,029 that you, under penalty of perjury, certify that you are a citizen. 314 00:20:24,259 --> 00:20:27,829 One of the reasons for this is that it's actually quite difficult to 315 00:20:28,189 --> 00:20:29,949 electronically prove you're a citizen. 316 00:20:29,959 --> 00:20:33,479 So the, the… And this is what the whole discussion around The SAVE Act. 317 00:20:34,269 --> 00:20:38,659 proving you're a citizen can be challenging for a lot of people. 318 00:20:38,799 --> 00:20:41,599 I don't wanna spend too much time on this, but just suffice it to say that 319 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:45,839 it's, it's not that easy to prove that you're a citizen for certain groups of 320 00:20:45,839 --> 00:20:52,869 people, especially married women and older people who, were born i- in various 321 00:20:52,879 --> 00:20:57,289 states in different times when getting easy access to your birth records is 322 00:20:57,299 --> 00:21:00,649 not easy, or if you've changed your name or, all sorts of things, right? 323 00:21:01,489 --> 00:21:06,019 Or if you, um, there's just a bunch of people where that is not the case. 324 00:21:06,099 --> 00:21:10,639 Anyway, I just want you to understand that, that the majority of states, 325 00:21:10,959 --> 00:21:14,789 all but six that I could find, do the same thing as California, 326 00:21:14,789 --> 00:21:16,509 where they require you to affirm. 327 00:21:17,429 --> 00:21:19,049 Now, what is this gym membership thing? 328 00:21:19,099 --> 00:21:19,969 So here's the thing. 329 00:21:19,999 --> 00:21:27,109 There was this, the Help America Vote Act of 2002, I believe it was, and this 330 00:21:27,109 --> 00:21:29,279 was back after The Gore-Bush election. 331 00:21:29,959 --> 00:21:33,049 And the, this act did a bunch of things. 332 00:21:33,089 --> 00:21:36,509 Uh, one of the things it did was it, it got rid of the punch card ballots. 333 00:21:36,509 --> 00:21:38,649 Remember the hanging chad, right? 334 00:21:38,729 --> 00:21:42,039 and by the way, just, you know, as a computer person, chad is 335 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:43,339 a plural word, like confetti. 336 00:21:43,339 --> 00:21:45,439 There's no such thing as a hanging chad. 337 00:21:46,179 --> 00:21:48,149 Anyway, a piece of chad, sure. 338 00:21:48,179 --> 00:21:48,689 But anyway. 339 00:21:49,869 --> 00:21:50,549 you remember that. 340 00:21:50,619 --> 00:21:56,479 The HAVA, HAVA Act, Help America Vote Act, it did a bunch of things like set 341 00:21:56,479 --> 00:22:00,529 standards for paper ballots, and require paper ballots, and, uh, get rid of voting 342 00:22:00,529 --> 00:22:04,509 machines, which is a, a machine where you vote on and it stores your vote, and that. 343 00:22:04,679 --> 00:22:05,779 So we got rid of those. 344 00:22:06,229 --> 00:22:12,037 and, um- because the Constitution does specify that the time and 345 00:22:12,037 --> 00:22:16,407 manner of elections is determined by the states, except where laws 346 00:22:16,407 --> 00:22:18,177 are passed by Congress, okay? 347 00:22:18,727 --> 00:22:21,517 and this was an example where Congress basically just came out and said, 348 00:22:21,527 --> 00:22:22,907 "You've gotta, you've gotta do this. 349 00:22:22,907 --> 00:22:24,787 You, you can't use these punch card ballots. 350 00:22:24,787 --> 00:22:29,307 We got too many problems of them in Florida, and, uh, so you gotta do 351 00:22:29,307 --> 00:22:32,807 that." But one of the things that it also stated was it stated, uh, some 352 00:22:32,807 --> 00:22:39,127 requirements on mail registration and, um, CVRs, conditional voter registrations. 353 00:22:39,617 --> 00:22:43,487 And it said that if you do this, you need to give them a unique number, 354 00:22:43,487 --> 00:22:44,767 so use their driver's license. 355 00:22:44,767 --> 00:22:49,407 They'll ask for their Social Security number or some state ID number. 356 00:22:49,747 --> 00:22:54,257 you need to give them a number, and then Someone needs to check ID the first 357 00:22:54,267 --> 00:22:57,457 time they vote in, a national election. 358 00:22:58,127 --> 00:23:04,287 And the, there is a list of, of IDs, as I make quotes, things that can 359 00:23:04,287 --> 00:23:11,753 help verify your identity, um, that is eligible in many states I will agree 360 00:23:11,783 --> 00:23:14,763 that the list is longer in California. 361 00:23:15,433 --> 00:23:19,233 and one thing on that list, so assuming you registered to vote, 362 00:23:19,233 --> 00:23:23,363 assuming your identity was verified e- electronically, not your citizenship, 363 00:23:23,373 --> 00:23:26,793 but your identity was verified, now you're coming to vote for the first 364 00:23:26,803 --> 00:23:31,483 time, you need to verify that the person standing in front of them is the 365 00:23:31,483 --> 00:23:33,583 person that filled out the application. 366 00:23:34,033 --> 00:23:39,943 And one of the things on that, called a HAVA ID list, is a gym membership card. 367 00:23:40,563 --> 00:23:44,403 And, I, and I'm sure some of you are like, "Aha, see, uh, you know, First 368 00:23:44,403 --> 00:23:45,713 off, let me just tell you something. 369 00:23:45,953 --> 00:23:50,373 As somebody who's worked every election for the last 10 years in 370 00:23:50,373 --> 00:23:55,353 California, and I train in every election on HAVA ID requirements. 371 00:23:55,353 --> 00:23:59,743 They're like, if when you go to, if when you go to check somebody in, it's gonna, 372 00:24:00,043 --> 00:24:03,673 it's gonna beep up and it's gonna say, "HAVA ID required," here's what to do. 373 00:24:04,023 --> 00:24:08,283 In 10 years, I have never seen a HAVA ID. 374 00:24:08,283 --> 00:24:12,433 I, and not just me, but I'm a site manager, and I tell them, "If anybody ever 375 00:24:12,433 --> 00:24:16,203 sees a HAVA ID, I wanna know about it." Since we changed things in California, 376 00:24:16,203 --> 00:24:17,613 we almost never do provisionals. 377 00:24:17,653 --> 00:24:21,123 If you-- I tell them, "If you do a provisional, probably something's 378 00:24:21,123 --> 00:24:22,603 wrong, so call me over," right? 379 00:24:22,603 --> 00:24:26,343 So if we ever had a HAVA ID, I would know, and I've never seen one. 380 00:24:26,353 --> 00:24:30,743 So my point is, this is a really rare scenario of this person has never, 381 00:24:30,763 --> 00:24:34,423 no one has ever seen this person with an ID, and so now we need to verify 382 00:24:34,423 --> 00:24:37,283 that the person standing in front of it, so it's called a HAVA ID check. 383 00:24:37,533 --> 00:24:41,953 And in that one scenario, the only thing we need to verify is that is the person, 384 00:24:41,983 --> 00:24:45,193 and what we're loo-- And one of the things that's on that list is a gym membership. 385 00:24:45,213 --> 00:24:46,353 Now, why is that valid? 386 00:24:46,583 --> 00:24:50,743 I'm not really gonna make a case for it too strong, but what I will say is that, 387 00:24:50,993 --> 00:24:55,443 in order to get a gym membership with a, with an ID, like that's generally going to 388 00:24:55,453 --> 00:24:57,783 be a, something with an automatic debit. 389 00:24:57,843 --> 00:25:01,333 Every gym I've joined has always wanted an automatic debit, which 390 00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:04,413 means you have, they, they need to identify with who you are. 391 00:25:04,413 --> 00:25:05,573 You need to sign a contract. 392 00:25:05,573 --> 00:25:08,673 The contract needs to match the bank that they're gonna do an automatic debit from. 393 00:25:09,313 --> 00:25:11,543 So it's a little bit more valuable than you might think. 394 00:25:12,173 --> 00:25:15,083 In other states, and in California, you can also use 395 00:25:15,083 --> 00:25:17,043 things like a utility bill, right? 396 00:25:17,853 --> 00:25:21,663 I would argue that the utility bill is a whole lot easier to forge than 397 00:25:21,693 --> 00:25:25,413 a gym, you know, a laminated gym membership card with a, uh, with an ID. 398 00:25:25,453 --> 00:25:29,303 But anyway, that's what the whole gym membership card thing is. 399 00:25:29,803 --> 00:25:36,465 Okay the, um, the next thing that I saw is Nithya Raman, there's no 400 00:25:36,465 --> 00:25:37,705 way that she got as many votes. 401 00:25:37,715 --> 00:25:39,705 She didn't even carry her own district. 402 00:25:40,135 --> 00:25:41,875 Well, that's just false, right? 403 00:25:42,275 --> 00:25:49,875 the, like, you will say that she lost 54 out of 66 precincts in the California 404 00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:51,445 District 4, which is her district. 405 00:25:51,925 --> 00:25:55,315 You're like, "Well, look, she, she lost." But here it's, th- this is, if you've 406 00:25:55,315 --> 00:25:58,465 been following this, one of the things you hear is land doesn't vote, people do. 407 00:25:59,335 --> 00:26:03,725 She did win in the populous districts in her, in her own district. 408 00:26:03,735 --> 00:26:05,965 She did win her district, okay? 409 00:26:06,305 --> 00:26:10,905 and, um, and when she was elected to city council, she, there was a runoff, and 410 00:26:10,905 --> 00:26:12,885 she got more than half of that runoff. 411 00:26:13,145 --> 00:26:17,925 and so this idea that she lost, the, her own district, and then how could 412 00:26:17,925 --> 00:26:19,425 she possibly win the, the city? 413 00:26:20,915 --> 00:26:24,705 one other crazy thing that has come up a lot, and that 414 00:26:24,755 --> 00:26:30,815 People on Skid Row are being paid to vote, and that is false. 415 00:26:31,995 --> 00:26:35,355 "But I saw a video." Yeah, you saw a video. 416 00:26:35,445 --> 00:26:38,125 And by the way, some people were being paid to do something. 417 00:26:38,675 --> 00:26:40,355 It was that they weren't being paid to vote. 418 00:26:41,185 --> 00:26:42,855 so what was going on there? 419 00:26:42,865 --> 00:26:46,415 And by the way, what was going on was wrong, was a crime, and the woman 420 00:26:46,415 --> 00:26:53,699 has pled guilty so in California, we have this concept of, of petitions 421 00:26:53,729 --> 00:26:58,769 and that you can get anything on the ballot, if you get enough signatures. 422 00:26:58,779 --> 00:27:03,739 For example, in November, we do have voter ID on the ballot for the 423 00:27:03,739 --> 00:27:05,409 November general election, right? 424 00:27:05,479 --> 00:27:10,239 and, and also the, if that passes, they would require, them to check for 425 00:27:10,239 --> 00:27:11,899 citizenship when people register to vote. 426 00:27:12,909 --> 00:27:17,709 so she was a paid petitioner, meaning a person who goes out to 427 00:27:17,709 --> 00:27:19,909 get signatures for a petition. 428 00:27:20,699 --> 00:27:25,069 And, and that is legal to pay someone to go out and get signatures, and it is 429 00:27:25,069 --> 00:27:27,529 very common to pay them by the signature. 430 00:27:28,019 --> 00:27:32,129 But California law requires anyone who signs these petitions 431 00:27:32,129 --> 00:27:33,739 to be a registered voter. 432 00:27:34,859 --> 00:27:38,029 So, she was doing two things that I can see in the video. 433 00:27:38,059 --> 00:27:39,439 I watched multiple videos. 434 00:27:39,479 --> 00:27:41,009 I saw two things going on. 435 00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:46,509 One, that, she… if people weren't registered to vote she was allowing 436 00:27:46,509 --> 00:27:50,169 them to register to vote, basically fill out the paperwork to register to vote, 437 00:27:50,169 --> 00:27:52,559 and once they had done that, they were then a registered voter, and so they 438 00:27:52,559 --> 00:27:54,329 could sign their name on the petition. 439 00:27:55,199 --> 00:27:58,559 and then the second one, uh, and I don't know which of these is worse, but the 440 00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:03,529 second one is she had a list of registered voters, and she was then having them 441 00:28:03,529 --> 00:28:08,759 impersonate those registered voters and sign their name, on the petition And she 442 00:28:08,759 --> 00:28:12,569 would give them the name that they're supposed to sign and, uh, and the address. 443 00:28:13,269 --> 00:28:17,319 So, in the case of the first one, there's nothing wrong with 444 00:28:17,349 --> 00:28:18,649 getting them to register to vote. 445 00:28:18,989 --> 00:28:21,409 There's nothing wrong with the fact that they were on Skid Row, 446 00:28:21,409 --> 00:28:23,569 that they were homeless, that they were unhoused, whatever w- 447 00:28:23,579 --> 00:28:25,269 whatever word you wanna use there. 448 00:28:26,109 --> 00:28:31,899 That is not illegal to, to help homeless people register to vote. 449 00:28:32,179 --> 00:28:36,369 Homeless people are allowed to vote without a, an address, right? 450 00:28:36,369 --> 00:28:40,049 They do need to verify their identity, but, again, one of the 451 00:28:40,049 --> 00:28:44,559 things that I'm trained to do is to help an unhoused person, do a 452 00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:45,929 conditional voter registration. 453 00:28:45,939 --> 00:28:50,309 We find out where they are currently living, even if that's a tent on the 454 00:28:50,309 --> 00:28:54,699 corner of A and B, and the reason for that is that we need to know 455 00:28:54,699 --> 00:28:58,409 where they live so that we know which, races they're gonna vote on. 456 00:28:58,509 --> 00:29:03,129 we identify physically where they are sleeping, and then that's the 457 00:29:03,129 --> 00:29:04,319 race that they get to vote on. 458 00:29:04,529 --> 00:29:07,319 I'm absolutely sure that some of you think, "Well, that's just crazy." 459 00:29:09,223 --> 00:29:12,523 That's the way we do it here, and actually I think, I'm willing to 460 00:29:12,523 --> 00:29:18,383 guess that many states have a formal policy for what to do with, homeless 461 00:29:18,383 --> 00:29:20,753 people and, their ability to vote. 462 00:29:21,823 --> 00:29:23,783 And I'm sure that there are probably some other states that say you 463 00:29:23,783 --> 00:29:26,583 have to have a, a, you know, a stationary address or whatever. 464 00:29:27,193 --> 00:29:30,513 So what she was doing is that she, if they wanted to register to vote, she 465 00:29:30,513 --> 00:29:34,683 was allowing them to use her address or a central address to register to vote. 466 00:29:34,753 --> 00:29:38,153 What she was doing is she was paying them to do that. 467 00:29:38,263 --> 00:29:42,283 She was paying them like $2 to $5 to register to vote, and 468 00:29:42,293 --> 00:29:45,403 that is a federal crime, okay? 469 00:29:45,723 --> 00:29:48,883 That's what she was charged with, paying people to register to vote. 470 00:29:49,553 --> 00:29:52,183 The other thing that she was doing, which is she was having 471 00:29:52,183 --> 00:29:56,863 them impersonate, the, somebody in order to sign a state petition. 472 00:29:57,163 --> 00:29:59,773 That is a felony within California. 473 00:30:00,143 --> 00:30:04,823 I haven't heard, anything there, but, uh, in terms of what they're doing with that. 474 00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:12,373 But she, um, But people are like, "Ah, see? Voter fraud." Not really. 475 00:30:12,673 --> 00:30:15,293 Not, at least not the type of voter fraud that we've been talking about. 476 00:30:15,873 --> 00:30:18,603 This is technically voter fraud because you're doing stuff with 477 00:30:18,603 --> 00:30:20,343 voters, but nobody was being paid. 478 00:30:20,383 --> 00:30:23,913 There's… I don't, I find no evidence that she was paying anybody to vote. 479 00:30:24,443 --> 00:30:27,753 She was paying them to register just so they could sign the petition that 480 00:30:27,763 --> 00:30:29,983 she's getting paid by the signature for. 481 00:30:30,733 --> 00:30:34,843 and, um, and by the way, even if they were paid to vote, they're 482 00:30:34,843 --> 00:30:37,683 not gonna get mail ballots because they don't have a regular address. 483 00:30:37,743 --> 00:30:41,603 and so they would have to go in person, and if they go in person, then they're 484 00:30:41,603 --> 00:30:43,423 gonna be in a booth all by themselves. 485 00:30:43,423 --> 00:30:47,863 So if you're paid to vote for a particular candidate, you go into a booth, no one's 486 00:30:47,863 --> 00:30:50,913 gonna know that you voted or didn't vote for that particular candidate, 487 00:30:50,923 --> 00:30:53,033 so it'd be a really weird thing to do. 488 00:30:53,763 --> 00:30:57,383 you could strongly encourage that they vote for somebody, but you… There's just 489 00:30:57,403 --> 00:30:59,233 no way to know what they end up doing. 490 00:30:59,233 --> 00:31:02,393 But again, I saw no evidence that she was paying people to vote, 491 00:31:02,393 --> 00:31:07,013 which is something that I heard alleged 100 times in the last week 492 00:31:10,987 --> 00:31:12,827 Okay, I promised you a good one. 493 00:31:13,557 --> 00:31:16,897 I promised you one that turned out to actually be true, and this is it 494 00:31:18,369 --> 00:31:24,349 There was a woman in Orange County that successfully registered her 495 00:31:24,349 --> 00:31:28,649 dog to vote and voted as the dog. 496 00:31:28,849 --> 00:31:34,549 And when she did this, she said that she was doing it to make a point. 497 00:31:34,679 --> 00:31:39,529 She is one of those who thinks that we do things wrong here, and she proved her 498 00:31:39,529 --> 00:31:45,739 point by, by successfully registering her dog to vote and then voting as that dog. 499 00:31:46,269 --> 00:31:47,449 And she's like, "See? 500 00:31:47,639 --> 00:31:52,469 Voter fraud." And we're like, "Yeah, voter fraud, that's a felony." 501 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:57,559 She was convicted and sentenced for that crime, okay? 502 00:31:58,089 --> 00:32:00,449 so is this not evidence of voter fraud? 503 00:32:00,489 --> 00:32:05,119 It is evidence that there was a single incident of voter fraud that 504 00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:06,909 was done on purpose to make a point. 505 00:32:07,019 --> 00:32:11,029 It's still not evidence that there is widespread voter fraud. 506 00:32:11,379 --> 00:32:14,279 I will agree, uh, you know, I think I've already agreed that, 507 00:32:14,859 --> 00:32:16,119 that should not have happened, 508 00:32:16,119 --> 00:32:19,579 And I hope that in Orange County, which is right up the road here, 509 00:32:20,169 --> 00:32:24,199 that they need to do a better job of verifying the identity of a person. 510 00:32:24,569 --> 00:32:28,849 I will say that when you have, in San Diego County's case, two million 511 00:32:28,849 --> 00:32:31,959 voters, you may make mistakes, right? 512 00:32:32,389 --> 00:32:36,059 In any large data size, you're going to have mistakes. 513 00:32:36,099 --> 00:32:41,269 Even if we had, some sort of citizenship, uh, verification, I 514 00:32:41,289 --> 00:32:42,679 think there still may be mistakes. 515 00:32:42,689 --> 00:32:48,129 So, that mistake was made and, uh, and it's wrong that that mistake was made. 516 00:32:48,239 --> 00:32:52,619 I do think it's important to point out that she was flagged and that she, 517 00:32:52,719 --> 00:32:57,219 she was convicted, and then she is, uh, being sentenced for that crime. 518 00:32:58,069 --> 00:33:01,949 and by the way, the same is true, I thought I, I'm glad I brought this, the 519 00:33:01,949 --> 00:33:06,599 same is true of a handful of people who actually, I don't know if you, some of 520 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:11,849 you saw this on, um, social media, people saying that because they don't check ID 521 00:33:11,849 --> 00:33:14,979 in California, we're just gonna go over there, we're gonna fly over to California, 522 00:33:14,979 --> 00:33:18,929 and we're gonna vote for Spencer Pratt because they don't check ID in California. 523 00:33:18,969 --> 00:33:22,657 the thing is, we do check ID in California That's right. 524 00:33:22,997 --> 00:33:23,717 We check ID. 525 00:33:24,037 --> 00:33:29,647 Not in the way you think, meaning we don't check your ID, your, a card, but 526 00:33:29,647 --> 00:33:32,027 we do identify you when you come to vote. 527 00:33:32,057 --> 00:33:36,997 You have to fill out a conditional voter registration to vote, and if you 528 00:33:36,997 --> 00:33:41,747 are then found to be falsifying that voter registration, that is a felony. 529 00:33:42,257 --> 00:33:46,717 And, um, there, there were a few people that were caught attempting to do 530 00:33:46,717 --> 00:33:48,867 that, and they are being prosecuted. 531 00:33:50,347 --> 00:33:55,117 So speaking of prosecuting and, the Justice Department, another thing that 532 00:33:55,117 --> 00:34:00,707 is cited as evidence that things are, topsy-turvy over in California is that 533 00:34:00,717 --> 00:34:05,117 the, Justice Department is opening up an investigation in California. 534 00:34:05,947 --> 00:34:13,057 just the fact that you, that the, the Department of Justice is saying 535 00:34:13,377 --> 00:34:16,037 that they're going to open an investigation, and they're saying 536 00:34:16,057 --> 00:34:19,517 things like, and we expect some arrests. 537 00:34:20,117 --> 00:34:24,817 the fact that investigation has allegedly, because we don't actually know if it's 538 00:34:24,817 --> 00:34:27,197 been open or if they're just saying they're gonna open investigation, 539 00:34:27,697 --> 00:34:29,027 that means absolutely nothing 540 00:34:31,649 --> 00:34:32,399 So that's it. 541 00:34:32,589 --> 00:34:33,449 that's what I got. 542 00:34:33,909 --> 00:34:38,789 I'm gonna put as, as much as I can up here in terms of the, the evidence and stuff. 543 00:34:39,209 --> 00:34:41,299 uh, I'll put it on the website and I'll put it in the, in 544 00:34:41,299 --> 00:34:42,399 the video version of this. 545 00:34:42,879 --> 00:34:51,239 But, again, with one exception, no ex- no actual, proof of any kind of voter 546 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,719 fraud, and perfectly valid explanations for the other things that you saw. 547 00:34:56,769 --> 00:35:01,169 Uh, with that, I'm gonna get back to my regularly scheduled programming next week. 548 00:35:02,449 --> 00:35:02,929 That's a wrap