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Something strange happened overnight in Los Angeles, and the internet <\/span>noticed<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Karen Bass and Nithya Raman each saw their vote totals surge by over 10,000 votes while the sun was down and people were asleep. Meanwhile, Spencer Pratt, the only candidate with a coherent plan to rescue a city drowning in vagrancy, methamphetamine, fire, and fecal matter, apparently received zero votes out of more than 20,000 cast.<\/span><\/p>\n Zero. Not one. Statistically, that is not an anomaly. That is an impossibility.<\/span><\/p>\n As for the gubernatorial race: days after election night, only 60% of ballots have been counted, with several million votes still outstanding. We do not yet know which mayoral or gubernatorial candidates will advance to the runoff. We may not know for weeks. Or months. Or, at the rate California operates, sometime before the next Ice Age.<\/span><\/p>\n California’s voting system is not broken by accident. It is meticulously designed to corrode public trust, and it is succeeding. Here is exactly how they did it.<\/span><\/p>\n California operates the most mail-in-dependent voting system<\/a> in the country. Every registered voter automatically receives a ballot. Ballots can be postmarked on election day itself and still accepted up to seven days later. Counties then have weeks to verify signatures and process returns. “Election Day” in California is less of a civic event and more of a suggestion, a starting pistol for a bureaucratic marathon that ends whenever the state decides it’s done.<\/span><\/p>\n California must have a case of dyslexia like their governor, Gavin Newscum, because they saw \u201cElection Day\u201d and read \u201cmonths.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The predictable consequence, which is not a coincidence, is that Republicans routinely lead on election night, only to watch their margins dissolve as weeks of late mail-in ballots roll in and “flip” the race.<\/span><\/p>\n It tends to feel like officials just wait to call elections until enough of their blue mail-in ballots come through the mail. Whether that is intentional coordination or simply negligent design that consistently benefits one party is, at this point, a distinction without a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n Florida<\/span><\/a> processes over 10 million votes in a single evening with paper ballots and same-day results. California, home of Silicon Valley, Stanford, and the most vaunted tech economy on the planet, cannot finalize an election before the next one is scheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n The state that <\/span>puts<\/span>\u00a0a computer in your pocket cannot count ballots in a week.<\/span><\/p>\n In a world where you <\/span>can <\/span><\/i>design elections for speed and trust, it raises the question of why you wouldn\u2019t, unless you had ill intentions, which California Democrats do.<\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019ve rigged election law to favor their own candidates, and the machine is able to coordinate its institutions and nonprofit apparatus to reap votes. It\u2019s legalized and sophisticated fraud. We\u2019re watching it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019ve perfected the ballot harvesting game, where a third party can collect and submit an unlimited number of ballots with almost no oversight. Unions, Democratic Socialists of America chapters, activist networks, homeless-service groups, and the entire institutional apparatus of the California Left operate sophisticated, well-funded, voter-contact operations that collect and deliver ballots at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n They know exactly which precincts to target, which populations to harvest, and precisely when to submit to maximize impact.<\/span><\/p>\n They could just channel this energy towards, I don\u2019t know, simply putting up normal candidates, but that would apparently be insane.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Republicans, who do not have an equivalent organizational infrastructure in California and who remain ideologically skeptical of the practice itself, cannot match this.<\/span><\/p>\n The asymmetry is not incidental. The rules were written by the people who benefit from them.<\/span><\/p>\n Layered on top of this is no voter ID requirement for mail ballots and signature verification that is often rubber-stamped under pressure, and you get a system where people counting and delivering votes have more power than the voters themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n Democrats in California do not need to be compelling, charismatic, or responsive to constituent concerns. They do not need innovative policy, persuasive messaging, or genuine community engagement. They need an organized harvesting operation and a permissive legal framework. They have both.<\/span><\/p>\n Then there is the voter roll catastrophe, which is not a bug but a feature.<\/span><\/p>\n A recent lawsuit exposed <\/span>873,000<\/span><\/a> inactive “ghost voters” still on California’s rolls. Of those, 150,000 had been inactive for four or more consecutive elections, a direct violation of the National Voter Registration Act, a federal law that California has simply elected not to follow. Los Angeles County alone carries 5.8 million registered voters, a figure that exceeds the total population of most American states and defies every reasonable demographic analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n