(06-03-2026 08:21 AM)solohawks Wrote: Also, I have no problem with close elections and not know the winner the night of - in NC we had a razor thing margin (734 vote spread) for a statewide election. We also had our NC State Senate President ousted in his district's primary by 23 votes. But you know what I was able do? Read up on exactly how many ballots were left to count, how many ballots were in the provisional ballot status, and how many ballots were being disputed.
None of that happens in CA.
They mail out X number of ballots. And then just wait to see how many come back up until a week after the official date. No accountability, no ballot integrity, no nothing. You have no idea how many legitimate ballots are left and what is actually going to be returned. The system is RYPE for fraud.
And your defense is, "well what does it matter, you don't live there"
The hypocrisy of team blue and their cries of "save democracy" ring hollow to me
(06-03-2026 08:21 AM)solohawks Wrote: Also, I have no problem with close elections and not know the winner the night of - in NC we had a razor thing margin (734 vote spread) for a statewide election. We also had our NC State Senate President ousted in his district's primary by 23 votes. But you know what I was able do? Read up on exactly how many ballots were left to count, how many ballots were in the provisional ballot status, and how many ballots were being disputed.
None of that happens in CA.
They mail out X number of ballots. And then just wait to see how many come back up until a week after the official date. No accountability, no ballot integrity, no nothing. You have no idea how many legitimate ballots are left and what is actually going to be returned. The system is RYPE for fraud.
And your defense is, "well what does it matter, you don't live there"
The hypocrisy of team blue and their cries of "save democracy" ring hollow to me
(06-03-2026 06:35 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: Spencer Pratt won his way into the general election this November. He may end up ousting that lunatic after all.
We still got a week to receive/find ballots
They’ll be finding them and “counting” until Halloween, at best.
So, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Greasy has already said they have “a plan”.
Very sad what the demostructors have done to possibly our most beautiful State.
Who will even venture the trip to “Hollywood blvd” these days?
Only junkies, panhandlers or the flat-out robbers?
My last trip to N Hollyweird with family and friends we actually had impromptu lunch and many beers with Billy Idol and his crew.
(06-03-2026 06:35 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: Spencer Pratt won his way into the general election this November. He may end up ousting that lunatic after all.
We still got a week to receive/find ballots
They’ll be finding them and “counting” until Halloween, at best.
So, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Greasy has already said they have “a plan”.
Very sad what the demostructors have done to possibly our most beautiful State.
Who will even venture the trip to “Hollywood blvd” these days?
Only junkies, panhandlers or the flat-out robbers?
My last trip to N Hollyweird with family and friends we actually had impromptu lunch and many beers with Billy Idol and his crew.
True story
that's cool factor x10 ... was on a biz junket in AZ and got to play a round with Alice Cooper ... yeah, cool factor x10!!!
to wit, your post always brings me back to this tune...
(06-02-2026 01:33 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Here's a complete list of the hardships you all will face because California won't have complete and final results of a June primary on election night:
To expound upon your point....I'm going to assume you're a popular.vote abolish the electoral college guy
By doing so you realize the practical effect of this is the entire nation would be waiting at least a week to see how many late ballots can be collected via mail to put to the Democrat over the top
It would be very very messy and completely destroy whatever faith is left in the electoral system
No, I'm not an abolish the electoral college guy. I would probably consider some reasonable tweaks to it, however, if proposed.
And again, what ******* difference does it make if you have to wait a week after voting day in November to know who is the official winner? In pretty much every case, the winner doesn't take office until 2 months later in January. And as long as the race isn't that close, we do pretty much know by the next day who each winner will be.
Finally, drop the only democrats cheat complete and utter . I can find every bit as much cheating from Republicans as you can find from Democrats. And no, I'm not talking about your half-baked conspiracy theories, but rather actual facts.
You have no problem with one state dragging out the process unnecessarily. That dragged out process always results in a Blue win and the other states are just supposed to take CA's word?
In the words of the most popular (by vote count) president ever .... C'mon man
Theyve set up a system where they can collect ballots for a week after the election in a state where they dominate the voter rolls and there is minimal accountability on those voter rolls or ballot integrity
The systems is screwed up but the CA Dems do win according to the rules they created
Dude, you don't have a ******* clue what you're talking about...so just stop.
(06-03-2026 08:21 AM)solohawks Wrote: Also, I have no problem with close elections and not know the winner the night of - in NC we had a razor thing margin (734 vote spread) for a statewide election. We also had our NC State Senate President ousted in his district's primary by 23 votes. But you know what I was able do? Read up on exactly how many ballots were left to count, how many ballots were in the provisional ballot status, and how many ballots were being disputed.
None of that happens in CA.
They mail out X number of ballots. And then just wait to see how many come back up until a week after the official date. No accountability, no ballot integrity, no nothing. You have no idea how many legitimate ballots are left and what is actually going to be returned. The system is RYPE for fraud.
And your defense is, "well what does it matter, you don't live there"
The hypocrisy of team blue and their cries of "save democracy" ring hollow to me
(06-03-2026 01:16 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote: Breaking: Election predictors at both Fox News and the Associated Press predict Karen Bass will advance to the next stage in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Former reality television personality Spencer Pratt, who along with his parents lost their respective home in the Pacific Palisades fire in December 2024 and January 2025, has yet to join her. Still, according to some political pundits' predictions at press time, he is expected to.
Editor's note: All candidates per mayoral race rules are to run as independents, regardless of official party affiliation.
Also breaking: With 51% of the precincts reporting, naturalized American citizen Steve Hilton's margin of separation between himself and Democratic candidate and former Biden administration Cabinet member Xavier Bocerra has increase to over one and a have percentage points! It's still too early to call, but Hilton's campaign has said the results are so far promising for the GOP gubernatorial hopeful. President Donald Trump has endorsed the English-born Hilton, who is hopeful he will elected the first Republican candidate of the Golden State since another European-born naturalized American, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar. "The Govenator" is a noted Trump critic despite being a Republican and even endorsed former vice-president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her bid for her party to retain the White House in the 2024 presidential election, but he has since criticized both parties. Hilton also said to supporters in a speech late Tuesday night that the Austrian-born former strongman reached out when Hilton announced his campaign for California's governorship. Both Hilton and Bocerra, the former Health and Human Services secretary under former president Biden, respectively have received 27.2% and 25.6% of all ballots cast at press time. Billionaire Tom Steyer, another registered Democrat, is third, receiving less that 20% of all ballots cast at press time.
If no candidate receives 50.1% of the vote in any respective race, the top two candidates in each one will head to a runoff in November.
In other news, Democratic congresswoman and noted Trump critic Maxine Waters will defeat her opponents by winning her primary with over 62% of all ballots cast in her redrawn district. Voters of the Golden State approved a statewide ballot measure that approved the state's congressional map. Critics say the map favors the Democrats and will therefore be struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States. No matter the outcome, she expected to win reelection in November. She is best known for calling for Trump's impeachment during both his first and current terms.
I believe this is how one is to report the news. What say y'all?
(06-03-2026 01:16 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote: Breaking: Election predictors at both Fox News and the Associated Press predict Karen Bass will advance to the next stage in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Former reality television personality Spencer Pratt, who along with his parents lost their respective home in the Pacific Palisades fire in December 2024 and January 2025, has yet to join her. Still, according to some political pundits' predictions at press time, he is expected to.
Editor's note: All candidates per mayoral race rules are to run as independents, regardless of official party affiliation.
Also breaking: With 51% of the precincts reporting, naturalized American citizen Steve Hilton's margin of separation between himself and Democratic candidate and former Biden administration Cabinet member Xavier Bocerra has increase to over one and a have percentage points! It's still too early to call, but Hilton's campaign has said the results are so far promising for the GOP gubernatorial hopeful. President Donald Trump has endorsed the English-born Hilton, who is hopeful he will elected the first Republican candidate of the Golden State since another European-born naturalized American, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar. "The Govenator" is a noted Trump critic despite being a Republican and even endorsed former vice-president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her bid for her party to retain the White House in the 2024 presidential election, but he has since criticized both parties. Hilton also said to supporters in a speech late Tuesday night that the Austrian-born former strongman reached out when Hilton announced his campaign for California's governorship. Both Hilton and Bocerra, the former Health and Human Services secretary under former president Biden, respectively have received 27.2% and 25.6% of all ballots cast at press time. Billionaire Tom Steyer, another registered Democrat, is third, receiving less that 20% of all ballots cast at press time.
If no candidate receives 50.1% of the vote in any respective race, the top two candidates in each one will head to a runoff in November.
In other news, Democratic congresswoman and noted Trump critic Maxine Waters will defeat her opponents by winning her primary with over 62% of all ballots cast in her redrawn district. Voters of the Golden State approved a statewide ballot measure that approved the state's congressional map. Critics say the map favors the Democrats and will therefore be struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States. No matter the outcome, she expected to win reelection in November. She is best known for calling for Trump's impeachment during both his first and current terms.
I believe this is how one is to report the news. What say y'all?
I do not see one single Trump is a poopy-head reference so NO, that is not how news should be reported now!
(06-03-2026 01:16 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote: Breaking: Election predictors at both Fox News and the Associated Press predict Karen Bass will advance to the next stage in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Former reality television personality Spencer Pratt, who along with his parents lost their respective home in the Pacific Palisades fire in December 2024 and January 2025, has yet to join her. Still, according to some political pundits' predictions at press time, he is expected to.
Editor's note: All candidates per mayoral race rules are to run as independents, regardless of official party affiliation.
Also breaking: With 51% of the precincts reporting, naturalized American citizen Steve Hilton's margin of separation between himself and Democratic candidate and former Biden administration Cabinet member Xavier Bocerra has increase to over one and a have percentage points! It's still too early to call, but Hilton's campaign has said the results are so far promising for the GOP gubernatorial hopeful. President Donald Trump has endorsed the English-born Hilton, who is hopeful he will elected the first Republican candidate of the Golden State since another European-born naturalized American, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar. "The Govenator" is a noted Trump critic despite being a Republican and even endorsed former vice-president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her bid for her party to retain the White House in the 2024 presidential election, but he has since criticized both parties. Hilton also said to supporters in a speech late Tuesday night that the Austrian-born former strongman reached out when Hilton announced his campaign for California's governorship. Both Hilton and Bocerra, the former Health and Human Services secretary under former president Biden, respectively have received 27.2% and 25.6% of all ballots cast at press time. Billionaire Tom Steyer, another registered Democrat, is third, receiving less that 20% of all ballots cast at press time.
If no candidate receives 50.1% of the vote in any respective race, the top two candidates in each one will head to a runoff in November.
In other news, Democratic congresswoman and noted Trump critic Maxine Waters will defeat her opponents by winning her primary with over 62% of all ballots cast in her redrawn district. Voters of the Golden State approved a statewide ballot measure that approved the state's congressional map. Critics say the map favors the Democrats and will therefore be struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States. No matter the outcome, she expected to win reelection in November. She is best known for calling for Trump's impeachment during both his first and current terms.
I believe this is how one is to report the news. What say y'all?
I do not see one single Trump is a poopy-head reference so NO, that is not how news should be reported now!
(06-03-2026 12:11 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote: It's too soon to call, but so far with almost fifty percent of the vote, Steve Hilton is leading in the California gubernatorial race with 26.8 percent to Xavier Becerra's 25.8 percent. People like Hilton are why I want an exception to the "you must be born in this country to run for office. He may be originally from England, but I agree with him almost one hundred percent of the time. And I've always thought he was a smart guy.
In the Los Angeles mayoral race, incumbent mayor Karen Bass is leading, but Spencer Pratt is currently second. (All mayoral candidates are technically independents in this race.)
This is just to determine who runs in the runoff, from what I believe.
Exactamundo, jungle primary system.
All candidates into the hopper in the primary -- top 2 go to the general. Completely short circuits partisan primaries.
To put a finer point on your first sentence, I dont think there are very many offices that are restricted to 'native born Americans'. The only one I can think of with that legal restriction is President.
Does your first sentence mean that you would be fine with expanding the criteria of President to naturalized citizens?
Yeah, no ****...that's why your posts had next to none of them.
Not to mention, I didn't call you a name in either post.
Where are my facts wrong?
FACT - CA mails out X number of ballots
FACT - They can be returned up to 1 week after the end of the election
FACT - They have no idea how many votes are going to be returned until the statutory deadline
FACT - No one can say with certainity where the outstanding ballots are at this present moment
FACT - The lack of ballot integrity makes it ripe for accusations of fraud, especially when the results always end the same way
They have until July 10th to collect ballots and certify the election. How surprising would it be that the vas majority of the ballots that are going to come in during the next month help the Democrat that is currently below the Republican in the Governor and LA Mayor's races?
(06-03-2026 07:54 AM)solohawks Wrote: That dragged out process always results in a Blue win and the other states are just supposed to take CA's word?
They've set up a system where they can collect ballots for a week after the election in a state where they dominate the voter rolls and there is minimal accountability on those voter rolls or ballot integrity
Neither of these are facts.
There are republicans elected in CA all the time.
Ballots most be postmarked by election day or they are not counted. They allow a week for delays in postal delivery. This assures they are not disenfranchising a voter through no fault of their own.
WTF does "minimal accountability" even mean?
Observers are allowed to view the entire vote counting process.
Small audits are built into the counting process and required.
Mail in ballot envelopes are barcoded to identify the voter. The signature image is then compared to the signature on file using Automatic Signature Verification (ASV) software. If the ASV software determines the signature meets or exceeds the confidence threshold established by the Registrar of Voters, the ballot proceeds to be counted. If the confidence rating falls below the established threshold, the ballot is referred to trained staff for manual signature verification.
If three trained staff members determine the signature does not compare to the signature on file with the voter registration or the voter forget to sign the ballot identification envelope, the Registrar of Voters will notify them by mail, attempt to reach them by phone or email, and provide them with an opportunity to resolve the issue.
Yeah, no ****...that's why your posts had next to none of them.
Not to mention, I didn't call you a name in either post.
Where are my facts wrong?
FACT - CA mails out X number of ballots
FACT - They can be returned up to 1 week after the end of the election
FACT - They have no idea how many votes are going to be returned until the statutory deadline
FACT - No one can say with certainity where the outstanding ballots are at this present moment
FACT - The lack of ballot integrity makes it ripe for accusations of fraud, especially when the results always end the same way
The one hiccup in your string is the last one, and the second to last one in a partial manner.
California law requires mailed in ballots to be signed, and for election workers to compare that signature to either the signature appearing on the voters affidavit or other signature appearing on a form that is part of the voters registration record.
A second smaller falsity is in your second to last statement.
California allows a voter to look at the status of their ballot -- whether undelivered, delivered, signature checked, whether the signature check passed or failed.
(06-03-2026 08:21 AM)solohawks Wrote: They mail out X number of ballots. And then just wait to see how many come back up until a week after the official date. No accountability, no ballot integrity, no nothing. You have no idea how many legitimate ballots are left and what is actually going to be returned. The system is RYPE for fraud.
Yes, they mail out ballots to every registered voter...but they know how many were sent out. Additionally, again, their law allows ballots postmarked by election day to be received 7 days after the election. So within a week, the know how man ballots are to be processed in total. If it's postmarked after election day, it's not counted.
And as I posted previously, they have accountability of monitors of the whole counting process, mandated small audits, signature matches, and a three person panel to review signatures that don't match.
Yeah, no ****...that's why your posts had next to none of them.
Not to mention, I didn't call you a name in either post.
Where are my facts wrong?
FACT - CA mails out X number of ballots
FACT - They can be returned up to 1 week after the end of the election
FACT - They have no idea how many votes are going to be returned until the statutory deadline
FACT - No one can say with certainity where the outstanding ballots are at this present moment
FACT - The lack of ballot integrity makes it ripe for accusations of fraud, especially when the results always end the same way
They have until July 10th to collect ballots and certify the election. How surprising would it be that the vas majority of the ballots that are going to come in during the next month help the Democrat that is currently below the Republican in the Governor and LA Mayor's races?
Any idea if ballots postmarked after election day are counted?
. I can find every bit as much cheating from Republicans as you can find from Democrats. And no, I'm not talking about your half-baked conspiracy theories, but rather actual facts.
