98 - Republican Voter Fraud to Own the Libs (10.13.2020)

The California GOP is thumbing its nose at state law, dropping unofficial 'ballot drop boxes' (which they've marked as 'official') throughout Orange County and other regions in California. Often, these drop boxes are placed at churches and gun ranges.

Naturally, the California Attorney General and Secretary of State are upset about this, but GOP representatives such as Hector Barajas don't appear to care, and are even refusing to say how many drop boxes are out there, or where they might be located.
 
All of this appears to stem from the classic GOP accusations against Democrats of "ballot harvesting," which they say constitutes voter fraud. They consider very legal means of ballot drop-offs--such as signing off on your envelope for a particular person to drop off your votes--as illegal.
 
But that's not the case here in California, or elsewhere in the US.
 
You might remember the Project Veritas video claiming that Rep. Ilhan Omar was participating in voter fraud in Minnesota. In fact, it came out that the PV team appeared to try to bribe people to lie and say they were committing actual fraud for the Democratic politician.
 
In some ways, this appears to be one more example of the death rattle of California's GOP. The party continues to shrink in relation to Democratic registration, and the nation's usual deep-pocketed contributors for Republican elections all but consider the state a lost cause. More than 75% of the state's Assembly members are now Democrats, and four of the 11 remaining GOP seats in the state Senate (there are just 40 senators in total) are also in serious trouble. Three of these four districts now have more registered Democrats than Republicans.
 
We also take this moment to talk about the Republican Party on a national level, and how voter suppression is necessary for their survival. They've always had fascist tendencies, and we're watching it all in action here in 2020.
 

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