California has a problem with its elections.
Not as they are carried out or managed, although there is certainly room for improvements.
The problem is with a certain pouting president who does not overcome the fact that California voters are simply not in him.
Donald Trump lost the state in 2016 with a whopping 4.2 million votes. He used his injured ego by suggesting that the result was spoiled. “Millions and millions” of fraudulent ballot papers – although there are Zero -evidence supported this claim.
Trump won the White House in November, but still lost California by almost 3.2 million votes. Not exactly a nail bitter, but definitely better than his demonstrations in 2016 and 2020. Apparently a gold star was not sufficient for progress to increase the self -esteem of our needy president.
“I think we won the state of California,” Trump told the supporters at a celebration after the infection. Another claim that is not grounded from afar in reality, but Trump is trumped.
Yes, It has become annoying. But all of this whining could be written off as fair More gaseous ventilation The president had not threatened to keep help for the fire brigade in Southern California.
“I have a condition,” he said, before he said the charred remains of Pacific palisades: Legislation on the voter -id to remedy what Trump incorrectly described as a “very corrupt” state electoral system.
(He also confirmed his demand that California changed its water policy, but maybe that was solved by the troops that Trump sent to switch on the water flow from the Pacific northwest. There were no troops and there is no such flow, but what always.)
The spokesman for the House spokesman Mike Johnson mixed with a predictable manner His own false election claimsAnd claim that the Republicans lost three seats in California in November because the harassment of the votes was dealt with. “Unuse -up”, he vanished and repeated Trump's proposal that there can be political terms to facilitate forest fire.
It is so much wrong with such threats, including the fact that they are morally reprehensible and completely without precedent in the American annals of the natural disaster – that is, until Trump came along. But we will save this lawsuit for another day.
There is also a lot of what Trump, Johnson and her allies roared in California, the integrity of the state's electoral system wrong.
For the beginning, repeated nationwide studies have shown that voter fraud “is blurred and that the voter expectation is almost impossible”, as the Brennan Center for Justice, a thinking factory of legal and politics at New York University.
This lets us – let us expect – millions and millions shyly towards the supposedly fraudulent voices that California tipped away from Trump.
As far as the known process of voices are concerned, this can be a source of anger. (Including many in the state.) But there is nothing more shameful there.
Over the years, the California legislators have issued a policy that aims to promote the greatest possible turnout, which is a commendable goal in a representative democracy. As soon as the votes have been submitted, the state tries all efforts to ensure that they are properly tabular. And there are many to count. The number of ballots coordinated in California in California last November – almost 16 million – exceeds the population of all up to four states.
It takes time to ensure that each of these ballot papers is legitimate. (So prevent fraud.)
This may require checking the address or checking the signature of a person with the file. Or send a mailing that was deposed in the wrong place to the district where it should have been poured.
A considerable number of preliminary ballot papers must also be processed. For example, if someone appears on the wrong polling station, they can hand in a ballot that must then be checked.
All of these steps keep the final count, which unfortunately invited insincere demands on vocal exchanges and stolen house seats. There is an uncomplicated, completely innocent reason why democratic candidates sometimes move forward after succession: the election day election has replaced the Republican in recent years, while postal votes that were later counted to prefer to prefer democrats.
If you want faster results, the state should spend more money to pay for it. The counties are responsible for the table of ballot papers, but do not receive anything from Sacramento for this responsibility. Let the state pay to hire more employees. In addition, legislators could help support the electoral offices in rural California, which are in cash assoced compared to large urban areas.
Another change that is worth considering: would the relocation from the voter registration databases managed by the district increase efficiency to a state -managed system?
These are all relatively small modifications in a system that does not require any major revision.
“Trump has cried Wolf for eight years and has promoted claims that attacks the integrity of the California elections,” said Senator Alex Padilla, the former head of the state, in an e -mail. “There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud and Trump's actions are an attempt to sow distrust of the elections in California because he does not like the results.”
Rightly it says that elections have consequences. This is how elections are lying.
Scheiner claims only serve to undermine trust in our democratic process and insult the many people who work hard to ensure the honesty and efficiency of our electoral system. They do this under ever more stressful and sometimes dangerous conditions.
There is no damage if you consider whether things can be done better.
But not by keeping tens of thousands of people whose life was destroyed by running fire. “They earn support from their president,” said Padilla rightly and “political play of play”.
And not by searching for unnecessary corrections for a non -existent problem that is not only a painful loser, but is also a painful winner.