I run with the logo CALIFORNIA REFUGEE. Simple reason: I lived most of my life in California. I saw it transformed from a Ronald Reagan den of conservative values- you know, family, God, work, boys and girls bathrooms- to a third-world oligarchy run by Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Willie Brown, and others. There are a lot of reasons why it sank. One of the most important: Voter laws were gutted and neutered.
I remember the last election I voted in- 2016 – before fleeing to the Granite State. There were 6 races for Congress. Before the election, all were GOP. After – none.
California voted to abolish voter ID.
Indeed, for a poll worker to ask for a driver’s license or some other proof of citizenship, domicile or anything else was a crime. A go-to jail crime.
Moreover, California had unlimited mail-in balloting with no ID required. Just write your name on the envelope and mail it.
Finally, they had something called ballot harvesting. A “political operative” could enter the polling area, see the list posted on the wall of all the voters who were registered and who had not yet voted. They could also see the vote totals for each candidate. They could then order as many blank ballots as they felt they needed. In the 6 GOP races in Orange County, 250,000 such ballots were issued. They came back 7 days later, all postmarked the day of the election. The 6 Gop candidates all were winning on the day of the election. They all lost 7 days later when the harvested ballots from voters who showed no ID were cast.
That system has remained in effect to this very day. Of note, the GOP of California just got over 1 million signatures needed to put on the November ballot a measure that would require voter ID.
For 8 years, though, the Democrats openly admitted and vociferously defended the system of no voter ID. It was clear then, and to me at least, it is clear today, that the Democrats’ control of California, as well as their ability to elect many of their members in Congress, is dependent on stealing elections. It is also equally clear that forbidding voter ID is key to the steal.
When I came to New Hamsphsire, I entered a comfort zone regarding the election. Like you, I entered the polling station, went to the designated poll worker, spoke my name, and gave my address. The poll worker then took my driver’s license, checked my picture, and then looked me up in the register of voters. Only then was I given a ballot.
My immediate reaction was one of relief – no fraud here. Basic common sense and reasonable voter integrity laws at work.
Pathetic me – I underestimated the persistent determination of the Democrats and their dark money donors to pursue their election perdition.
Not far from where I checked in – where we all check in- there is a separate area where “same day registration” occurs. Under New Hampshire law, a non-registered voter can register the same day of the election. Moreover, up until November 11, 2024, that same-day registration REQUIRED NO VOTER I D. No driver’s license. No birth certificate. Nothing. All the person had to do was say, “Ooops, I forgot to bring my license,” or “Ooops, I am married, and my maiden name is on my birth certificate, so I cannot show it to be me.” The person could still register and vote by filling out a Qualified Voter Affidavit. On that form, all the person had to do was to declare that they were a citizen, that they were entitled to vote, and that they did not possess the means to properly identify themselves. They got a ballot simply by signing, and their vote counted.
Who used those QVA’s? Who registered on the day of the election? According to court-filed documents, college students whose home was out of state so that their driver’s license was not from New Hampshire and did not show their domicile in NH. Immigrants from another country or state who claimed they were moving to New Hampshire but had not yet had time to get a license, or did not want to get one since they had one from the other state or country. Poor people or people of color who were too “unaware” of how to get a proper ID because of who they were (note – I don’t know any, I do know some who are pissed that they are being degraded by such an allegation).
The folks exploiting this no-voter-ID loophole were not insubstantial. The Democrats’ official court filing claims that the number of such registrants (those with no idea of how to produce proper ID) was as much as 10 to 20 percent of the total votes cast – more than enough to sway the outcome.
In November of 2024, the Governor signed HB1569 into law, which changed the rules. Same-day registration was upheld, but only if the applicant complied with the voter ID laws like everyone else. They could register if they showed a birth certificate, a passport, etc.
No big deal. Right? Everyone else has to have an ID. Why not last-minute registration?
Yikes! Reason and logic seem overwhelming.
But, hold on — do you hear it — the cry of a stuck pig resounded. The Democrats and their big dark money donors howled night and day at this travesty of anti democratic action.
“Unconstitutional”, they screamed. It prevents legitimate voters from voting. It unduly burdens poor people, black people, immigrants, students, and married women because it imposes on them this enormous task of getting a proper ID.
Big money bad guys don’t just whimper, though. They file lawsuits in front of Joe Biden-appointed judges and bring in high-powered lawyers from Washington, D.C., New Jersey, and even California.
One such lawsuit is entitled “COALITION FOR OPEN DEMOCRACY, et al. VERSUS SCANLAN. “
It is a federal court case presently pending under case number 24-cv-312-se-tsm.
The judge is a Joe Biden/Auto pen appointee, Her Honor, Chief Judge Samantha Eliot. She hails from New Jersey and attended law school at Columbia in New York.
The plaintiffs are a group of “non -profits” who seem to exist solely to determine/sway/push election results in favor of the socialist/progressive candidates. According to their public filings, they are all well-funded, with large donors from San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Several of them focus on high school- and college-age first-time voters.
If HB1569 is gutted, New Hampshire returns to the old law, where pretty much anyone can come into the voting place, give their name only, sign an affidavit, and vote.
It is hard not to note that the same arguments against voter ID presented to Judge Eliot are pretty much the same ones promoted by Democrats in the Senate to oppose the SAVE Act. It would appear that Judge Eliot may be gutting the SAVE Act before it can save us.
Stay tuned. Popcorn at the ready. Judge Eliot should rule within the next thirty days.
Editor’s note: Californian Refugee is a long-time regular contributor who has returned from an unplanned “hiatus.” And yes, he always used that chicken picture for his featured image.
