Newsom’s Bill to Ban Trump Admin from Seizing Election Ballots is Buffoonery

After gubernatorial candidate Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized more than 600,000 ballots from his county’s registrar of voters earlier this year, Democrats panicked. They introduced Senate Bill 73, to restrict any and all law enforcement agencies and officers from “interfering in any manner with the administration of any election in this state and in the discharge of duties by the SOS, a county elections official, an election worker, or a volunteer performing required elections-related tasks prescribed by the Elections Code or any other provision of state law, except as necessary to respond to urgent threats to public health and safety.”

The long and short: Law enforcement officers will be banned from “interfering” with California elections under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed just ahead of the June 2 primary election.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli responded directly: “Not to worry. This bill has no effect on federal criminal investigations. We have and will continue to investigate election fraud.” 

And he is.

After watching Spencer Pratt lose his Election Day lead for Los Angeles Mayor, as third place candidate Nithya Raman’s vote totals increased by 190% nearly one week later, many Californians took to social media crying foul. And this was after Raman even gave a concession speech election night.

Such leftist tactics. Democrats and Gov. Newsom are trying to outlaw federal investigators from looking into California elections the way they are trying to prevent investigative journalists from investigating what the Legislature and Governor are doing.

It won’t work.

President Trump and his allies have not threatened “to prevent free and fair elections in states across the country.” President Trump and Republicans are trying to strengthen the integrity of all elections by making proof of identification a requirement.

I just bought some DayQuill this week, and had to show my ID to make the purchase. It was not an inconvenience or too difficult since my ID is in my wallet next to my cash and debit card.

As for US Attorney Essayli, he made clear that federal criminal authority operates under the Supremacy Clause, and state law cannot fully impede legitimate federal probes into issues like voter fraud, double voting, or non-citizen voting. Protecting the integrity of American elections transcends state boundaries and falls squarely within federal jurisdiction. 

This legislation was all for show, and perhaps even acted as a dog whistle for Democrats.

As the California Globe’s Megan Barth said, “Californians deserve transparent, auditable elections, not barriers disguised as protections.”

Barth and I have been writing together for more than 10 years about California’s election “anomalies,” going back to the 2015 Presidential Primary, and 2016 Presidential Election.

“The electronic vote rigging in California appears to have been designed to keep Bernie supporters from electing him in the primary,” we reported. “And if they can steal an election in California, they can steal the Presidential Election.”

Oops. They did.

Here is the back story in California 2016, which schemed to hand Hillary Clinton the state’s electoral votes:

With all of the election fraud reported in California on Primary Election Day June 7th, it is particularly interesting that former President Bill Clinton met with California Governor Jerry Brown behind closed doors in California the week before the Primary. “They discussed foreign and domestic politics, and yes, the presidential campaign,” said Brown’s spokesman Evan Westrup, the Los Angeles Times reported. I’ll just bet they discussed foreign and domestic politics… just the way Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she and Bill Clinton talked only of grandchildren, golf, and their respective travels, in a private jet on a tarmac in Arizona.

Election fraud was widespread during the California Primary election June 7. Thousands upon thousands of California voters showed up at their designated polling stations only to discover that their party registration had been changed, or they were dropped entirely from the rolls. And it was evident this was done from within the state’s electronic voting system.

Harken back to the 2012 Presidential election. There were reports of voting machines automatically defaulting to a vote for Barack Obama… Reports of 120% voter turnout in far too many precincts… Bus loads of strangers showing up at polling stations… And there were precincts showing 100 percent of the vote for one candidate – Obama. “One group from Princeton needed only seven minutes and simple hacking tools to install a computer program on a voting machine that took votes for one candidate and gave them to another,” The Hill reported in November 2014. “More whimsically, two researchers showed they could install Pac-Man onto a touch-screen voting machine, leaving no detectable traces of their presence.”

Federal law is unambiguous and says that only legal citizens may vote in an election for federal office. Immigrants, documented or not, do not have the right to vote in federal elections in the United states, until they obtain citizenship. We supposed that the Clinton campaign thanked California Gov. Jerry Brown for his 2017 New Motor Voter law because The California New Motor Voter Program automatically registers all “eligible” California voters to vote when they first obtain or renew their driver’s licenses at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Which brings us back to 2026.

US Attorney Essayli’s warning that “We have and will continue to investigate election fraud” aligns with federal supremacy under the U.S. Constitution, meaning that states cannot block federal law enforcement from pursuing federal crimes, like election fraud under federal statutes. His office has publicly stated it has multiple ongoing election fraud investigations in California, coordinated with the FBI, and has sent prosecutors to monitor processes like LA County’s ballot handling.

It’s been a long time coming, but things are looking up.