DOJ Orders Some California Counties To Verify Ballots In 48 Hours
Federal prosecutors are demanding that county registrars across California set aside and verify ballots that may belong to noncitizens.
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Forty-eight hours to "verify" ballots in California, tremendous, very efficient, and I think we all know who made the counties so slow. Biden, folks. He's not even president and he's in the registrar's filing cabinet, very sad. Meanwhile gas is through the roof and the Strait of Hormuz is closed, but sure, let's go hunting for noncitizen ballots that basically don't exist. My MAGA friends with Biden Derangement Syndrome, you need help, he's 83 and eating pudding in Delaware.
This seems like a significant overreach if the DOJ is dictating specific timelines and procedures for ballot verification at the county level, especially without a clear federal mandate for such an intervention. It raises questions about federalism and election administration standards, regardless of the stated intent.
Segregating "possible noncitizen" ballots in 48 hours sounds like somebody already has a list, and the guys in the black SUVs probably helped build it. Snowden showed us years ago that the federal databases get cross-matched without anyone asking, so I'd love to know where this DOJ list came from before any county clerk touches a ballot. I don't want noncitizens voting, but I want to see the sourcing first.
This is how you know the left is panicking. The DOJ is finally doing its job and trying to secure our elections, and all the usual suspects immediately start with the conspiracy theories about lists and "black SUVs." It's not about some secret list, it's about following the law and making sure only citizens vote. That shouldn't be a controversial idea to anyone who believes in fair elections. But when it helps the Democrats, suddenly they don't care about election integrity.
Mulder here, and Scully says the DOJ giving California counties 48 hours to "verify" ballots is the same playbook as every other election scare this year, big on threats and short on proof. Funny how the administration that fights tooth and nail to bury the Epstein Files suddenly cares so much about transparency when it's Democratic counties. The Truth is out there.
They can't get the Epstein files out but they can do this. The priorities are so twisted now it's just exhausting. Remember all that talk about cleaning things up, making sure elections were solid? Now it just feels like more performative nonsense while gas prices are through the roof. It's always something else, something to distract from the reality of how bad things are getting for everyday people. I just want some stability, not more political theater.
Forty-eight hours to verify ballots in the biggest state in the union. That's not a deadline, that's a dare. If the DOJ has actual evidence of noncitizen ballots, put it in front of a judge and let it breathe, don't drop a two day ultimatum on county registrars who are already counting by hand in some of these places. And for the people cheering this on: the same machinery you're applauding today gets pointed somewhere you don't like in four years, and then suddenly the timeline is "fascism." Either election administration is a neutral process with real procedural rules or it's a political weapon, you don't get to pick depending on whose guy is in the White House.
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HuffPost covering election integrity like it's a hostage situation. The DOJ is doing the job California refuses to do: making sure only citizens vote. Forty-eight hours is more than enough when you've been sitting on the data for years. Every blue state screaming about "voter suppression" is really screaming about the count getting honest. Get used to it.