I see the Secretary of State isn’t happy about republicans using the ballot harvesting law that democrats passed. Allow me to clarify what the law allows:
A vote by mail ballot collected by a ballot harvester does NOT have to include the name or signature of the harvester on the identification envelope in order to be valid.
A ballot harvester is NOT required to document the vote by mail ballots chain of custody in any way.
A ballot harvester is NOT required to disclose to a voter who they are working on behalf of or if they are being paid to collect ballots.
A ballot harvester is NOT required to provide any kind of documentation/receipt when collecting a vote by mail ballot.
Election officials are NOT required to obtain any identifying information, including names, of ballot harvesters when they return collected ballots.
Election officials are NOT required to maintain a list of persons who collect and submit collected ballots, regardless of how many ballots they submit.
ANY individual is eligible to harvest ballots, including:
•Non-California residents
•Illegal immigrants
•Foreign nationals
ANY entity may have and compensate its employees to harvest ballots (so long as the compensation is not on a per ballot basis), including:
•Campaigns
•Non-profit organizations
•Businesses, including corporations
•Labor unions
•Churches
•Ballot harvesters may collect an unlimited number of ballots.
It appears Republicans are well within their right to collect ballots in this manner. It’s just that democrats don’t like it.
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Regarding ballot harvesting in California, since this practice seems to have caught everyone's attention, I'd like to provide information about who can and cannot engage in this practice, and how they can do so:
Non-citizens are permitted to collect ballots and as long as they are not compensated on a per ballot basis.
Foreign nationals are permitted to collect ballots as long as they are not compensated on a per ballot basis.
I’m seeing lots of inane chatter from democrats today about how half of CA’s forest are federal lands, and therefore that’s where all the blame should go regarding our fires. Nonsense. Allow me to explain...
Radical environmentalist groups have destroyed our forests with the help of the spineless legislators who refuse to stand up to them, for fear of losing the coveted “A” rating.
For decades they have blocked legislation to thin forests, allow timber harvesting, brush removal and controlled burns.
California’s energy demands cannot be met with 100% solar energy. California makes enough solar power for 7.8 M homes. That’s not enough for every home, much less businesses.
That solar power provides only 20% of the state’s need. Also, Mt. Diablo nuclear plant, which is clean alternative energy, is being shuttered. Mt. Diablo made enough power for 1.7M homes.
Solar goes from producing 18% of the electricity on the power grid at 4:00pm to ZERO percent at 9:00pm.
“Tool box killer" Lawrence Bittaker and partner Roy Norris called their van "Murder Mack", it had no windows so they could hide the young girls they kidnapped as they cruised up and down Pacific Coast Highway in the first half of 1979.#nojustice MM
16-year-old Cindy Schaeffer was picked up by the pair near Redondo Beach. Norris forced into the van, duct taped her mouth and bound her arms and legs. Bittaker drove her to the San Gabriel Mountains where both men raped her.
Bittaker then wrapped a wire coat hanger around her neck, tightened it with vice-grip pliers and strangled her to death. Afterward, they dumped her body in canyon.