10.9 Million 2022 Midterm Mail-In Ballots ‘Unaccounted For’ in California

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“Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap.”

Mass mail-in ballots must be abolished or our elections will continue to run like a third world country.

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Election Integrity Watchdog Finds 10.9 Million 2022 Midterm Mail-In Ballots ‘Unaccounted For’ in California
‘Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap’

By Rita Li, The Epcoh Times, January 19, 2023:

An election integrity group said 10.9 million out of a total 22.1 million ballots that had been mailed out to registered voters during the 2022 midterm elections went “unaccounted for,” according to a Jan. 18 report.

“Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap,” the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) said on Monday. “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.”

The watchdog released the two-page report (pdf) detailing what it called “the failures” of California’s first mass-mail balloting election following the passage of Assembly Bill 37 (AB 37), which requires that ballots automatically be mailed to all active registered voters statewide. The bill, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September 2021, makes vote-by-mail ballots, a practice implemented in the 2020 general election in conjunction with the COVID-19 pandemic, permanent for all elections.

California has more registered voters than any other state. Yet its vote-by-mail policies—among the nation’s most expansive—have resulted in large numbers of ballots “disappearing at poll closing time,” PILF’s data show.

“After accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding, meaning election officials do not know what happened to them,” reads the Wednesday report.

“It is fair to assume that the bulk of these were ignored or ultimately thrown out by the intended recipients. But, under mass-mail elections, we can only assume what happened,” it continued.

Besides the almost half unaccounted-for mail ballots, data show that 9.8 million were accepted, over 120,000 were rejected, and 1.4 million were counted from in-person voting centers.

The Golden State, which has been a Democratic stronghold for over two decades, mailed out more than 22.1 million ballots to its registered voters—nearly 47 percent Democrats and 24 percent Republicans—during the 2022 elections. A GOP victory in California on Nov. 16 granted the party slim control of the U.S. House.

Mail-In Ballot Rejects

PILF, after finding that election officials in California had rejected 226,250 mail-in ballots during the 2022 primary and general elections, argued that the switch to mail balloting has taken away voters’ rights.

According to the report, the state would reject mail ballots primarily for nine reasons, including mismatched or missing signatures, and double voting when a registrant casts a vote both in-person and by-mail, which took place 813 times in the past midterms.

The most common reason, which researchers said is “endemic to mail voting,” turned out to be late-arriving ballots—taking up 48 percent of all rejects during the 2022 elections, finding show.

Every registered voter in California should receive a ballot in the mail a month prior to Election Day. All ballots returned by mail must be postmarked by Nov. 8 to be counted, and received within seven days by county election officials, who would then verify the signatures on the return envelopes and process ballots through their vote tallying system.

“In the November contests, more than 57,000 ballots arrived after November 15, setting them up for rejection,” PILF stated.

“The official datasets do not differentiate between ballots postmarked too late or delivered too late. The U.S. Postal Service also touts its 2022 performance by claiming that 99 percent of mail ballots were delivered nationally within 3 days to officials for counting once in their custody,” the repost reads, noting that the Post Office sets the success rate at 94 percent for timely delivery of political mail.

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turtlebrat
turtlebrat
1 year ago

NO mail-ins except those requested well in advance and with a doctor’s note as to why the person cannot vote in person. NO same day registration and voting. No early voting. Clean up the voting rolls yearly. All nursing home votes must be accompanied by a doctor’s certificate that the person is competent to vote. NO ballot harvesting or drop in boxes. NO unconstitutional zuckie bucks. Military ballots must be given priority to be received on time. Valid photo ID and paper ballots hand counted by both parties must be done and stored in a safe locked area. Results in one day. We cannot tolerate the treason of cheating and all who do must be severely punished. With the tech we have retinal scans and/or fingerprints as well as photo ID can be easily done. Betcha that if we had honest elections the dem party would be extinct.

Last edited 1 year ago by Turtlebrat
Staff Sgt Chaos
Staff Sgt Chaos
1 year ago

No matter how you look at it, (Many Ways Too!), IT IS CHEATING/AGAINST EVERY RULE, LAW, in ALL REALITY and in the GOD’s EYEssssss (ssss represents US True Christians of Christ)!

California rigged their votes beyond a SHADOW of a DOUBT. Biden’s election was rigged to win beyond a SHADOW of a DOUBT. Keri Lake, got cheated from a rigged election beyond a SHADOW of a DOUBT and knowing the proof was twisted and thrown out or covered up, it can and will HELP many to OPEN their minds, hearts and SOULS to not only hear and see the wickedness, evil, corrupt people destroying our lands but TO CALL UPON GOD TO SAVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are more unbelievers than believers of Christ and in the end, there will be less Christians that make it in the Rapture due to turning their back on God!!!

Let the HOLY SPIRIT strengthen your Mind, BODY and HEART and SOUL because it ‘s going to get more and more unstably corrupt from here on out until the LORD grabs us as we see and say BYE BYE OLD WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen. (Actually we probably won’t look back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Last edited 1 year ago by Staff Sgt Chaos
Don Davenport
Don Davenport
1 year ago

The demrats will make sure mail-in voting is never abolished.

Andre
Andre
1 year ago
Reply to  Don Davenport

Of course they won’t otherwise how could 133 million registered voters manage to cast 74 million votes for Trump and another 81 million for the imbecile. Do the maths.

Vanessa
Vanessa
1 year ago
Reply to  Andre

Incredibly you are among the many stupid people wh still believing Trump’s lies that he won the election – In the 2020 elections, Joe Biden (D) won the presidential election. Biden received 306 electoral votes and Donald Trump (R) received 232 electoral votes. In the national popular vote, Biden received 81.2 million votes and Trump received 74.2 million votes.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

The same thing happened in Arizona and Georgia and the rest of the states that the ballets were missing.

Andre
Andre
1 year ago

In Australia and other countries that have better control over elections only registered voters can request a mail-in ballot and provide a reason why they cannot vote in person on election day. If they receive a ballot it has to be completed correctly and the barcode on the ballot must be scanned and matched against who it was sent to before it can be counted. Its not rocket science.

gfmucci
gfmucci
1 year ago

That was a “mostly fair” election.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
1 year ago

U shud just accept it—all elections—everywhere R corrupted—until proven otherwise! Mark Twain knew this—“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it…..”

George
George
1 year ago

It only takes 1 illegal alien to cancel out an American Citizen’s vote.

TRM
TRM
1 year ago

Skip the double talk and orchestrated hysteria. An unused mail in ballot isn’t “unaccounted for.”

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