California Voters Don’t Distrust the ‘System;’ It’s Voter Laws Changed by Democrats That Voters Distrust

California has been manipulating elections since before 2010, but has done so more brazenly in recent years. Hundreds of “dead voters” were uncovered in Southern California right before the June 2016 Primary, the majority of them in Los Angeles County. Some of these deceased voters have even been voting for years, the Los Angeles Times reported.

In 2016 the California Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown ostensibly “legalized” ballot harvesting, allowing a third party to collect ballots and deliver them to election officials, eliminating the ballot protection law that allowed only a family member to return another voter’s ballot.

This was facilitated by the state’s Democrats who passed a 2016 law, Senate Bill 450 by Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), and Assembly Bill 1921, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), which allows voter ballots to be harvested and counted for 30 days following the election, among myriad of other perks. Then-Governor Jerry Brown signed both bills into law in 2016.

AB 1921 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) legalized ballot harvesting in California. Prior state law limited who was authorized to return a voter’s mail ballot to immediate family or household members. AB 1921 expanded this to anyone, along with no limit on the number of ballots returned, with no required relationship to the voter required. Thus, ballot harvesting was born.

Paid collection was also allowed as long as compensation wasn’t per-ballot.

The new voting laws took effect just in time for the 2018 elections and became a major point of contention and debate after Democrats overturned 7 Republican-held congressional seats in close races after Election Day, where late-counted ballots, ballot harvesting, and ballot curation shifted results.

This is what and how organized “ballot harvesting” operations were enabled.

Fortunately, it’s 2026, and California voters are far more aware of Democrats’ election shenanigans, as is the entire country. National radio and television news shows have been talking recently about California’s outrageous and likely unconstitutional ballot harvesting and 30-day extended post-Election Day ballot counting, which always manages to flip wins in favor of Democrats.

As the Globe has reported for many years, the Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) has done the ground work identifying the many problematic election procedures in California, starting with Los Angeles County, which they identified Los Angeles County as ground zero.

In 2020, EIPCa warned that hundreds of thousands of ballots for California’s November election were mailed to registered voters who have probably moved or died, while more than one ballot was mailed to thousands more.

The Globe has received many recent emails from readers who moved out of the state, or their adult children moved, but are still receiving California ballots for the 2026 Primary Election, even though they re-registered to vote in their new state, and notified the California Secretary of State and their County Voter Registrar of their moves.

In May 2020, based on a report by the Election Integrity Project, California Globe warned 458,000 dead persons could be mailed ballots if the state moved to an all-mail in November 2020 election.

And then Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring all California voters to vote-by-mail.

It was all calculated.

In recent months, the Globe reported on the DOJ leveraging a Skid Row “cash-for-ballots” scheme involving payments to homeless individuals for signatures and registrations. Federal prosecutors reached a deal with Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, who admitted to illegally paying participants in such schemes for decades. 

Earlier Globe coverage highlighted 449,000 non-citizens reportedly excused from jury duty while raising questions about Motor Voter automatic registrations, as well as Democratic resistance to federal efforts like the SAVE Act for citizenship verification and cleaner rolls.  Our reporting has consistently documented how universal mail-in ballots, automatic registration, and lax maintenance create opportunities for abuse in a state with over 23 million registered voters. 

The Globe reported Monday:

As California voters head to the polls tomorrow for the June 2 primary featuring high-stakes races for governor, Los Angeles mayor, and Secretary of State, fresh revelations and a lawsuit from Judicial Watch highlight persistent vulnerabilities in the state’s voter rolls that critics say undermine public trust in the electoral process. Currently, over 23 million Californians are registered to vote, which is somewhat shocking in a state of 40 million residents.

Government watchdog Judicial Watch announced on May 28 that it filed a federal lawsuit against California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, alleging systemic failure to maintain accurate voter lists as required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The suit, filed on behalf of Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner (a Republican candidate for Secretary of State) and the American Independent Party of California, targets 873,092 inactive voter registrations that have lingered on the rolls for multiple federal election cycles. 

According to the complaint in Don Wagner et al. v. Shirley N. Weber,  326,608 registrations have been inactive for at least three consecutive federal elections (roughly six years), 151,202 for four cycles (eight years), and 33,922 for five or more, with some dating back before the 2016 presidential election. 

With a magnifying glass on California this Primary Election Day, it’s going to be very interesting to see what shenanigans take place. However, know that if the voter rolls throughout the country were purged of dead voters, and President Trump’s Save America Act voter I.D. law is passed, and California’s Voter ID initiative on the November 2026 ballot, the Democrats would lose millions of their voters.

Remember all that “threats to democracy” talk Democrats have been spewing? Turns out, Democrats were the threat all along.