Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Calls for Federal Funding Cuts in California Until Corrupt Elections Are Reformed

California’s elections have been a disaster since the state Legislature passed and Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill authorizing ballot harvesting in 2017. This legislation was just in time for the 2018 election, where California’s congressional Republicans lost 7 seats – all thanks to ballot harvesting after Election Day.

Additionally, California has allowed more than 800,000 inactive voter registrations to remain inactive and on the rolls for at least three elections — with 151,202 on the rolls after at least four consecutive elections, a new federal lawsuit states.

We’ve also just watched in disbelief as Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman pulled ahead of Spencer Pratt in the LA Mayor’s race by a magical swing of 43,000 votes, AFTER Primary Election Day. After giving a tear-filled concession speech Election night, somehow Raman gets a ballot dump of 43,000 votes?

After the first results were in, Mayor Karen Bass eventually increased her vote total by 98%, Spencer Pratt by increased his by 78%, while Raman’s vote totals increased by 190%!

Did other races – the race for Governor – increase this much? Becerra? Steyer?

Ballot harvesting. “Unfettered third-party ballot harvesting: no ballot limit, no collector restrictions, and no chain of custody,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli explains:

“California is a fraudsters’ paradise, make no mistake about that,” Essayli said, breaking down how California has eliminated almost ALL of its fraud-prevention measures:

“Almost ANYBODY can register to vote in the state of California. You don’t have to have a social security number and you don’t need a driver’s license number. [You can vote with] a gym membership, a prescription label, your employer ID card, and my favorite, a health insurance card, which California gives out health insurance to illegal aliens. It used to be against the law to handle anybody’s ballet other than your own or your immediate family member. That changed in 2018 in California. Anybody can handle anybody’s ballots… California has removed the paper trail, they’ve removed the chain of custody, they’ve removed any meaningful way for us to basically have a forensic audit of where a ballot came from.”

Many Democrat and Republican voters in California are fed up with lawmakers passing “laws” which are patently illegal, as ballot harvesting after Election Day is.

Fortunately California’s corrupt elections are drawing attention across the country.

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is calling on Congress to cut off federal funding to California until it cleans up its “shady election process:”

“The US gov sends billions to California to subsidize their failed policies. It is time we STOP until they clean up their shady election process.”

The US gov sends billions to California to subsidize their failed policies. It is time we STOP until they clean up their shady election process.

— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) June 8, 2026

That’s one way of getting the attention of California Democrats.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also weighed in on California’s messy elections:

“I’m sure the massive, post-election vote dumps will boost leftist candidates. Taking days or weeks to count votes and announce the results is a joke.”

So glad California's corrupt month-long ballot counting, ballot curation, ballot harvesting process has been exposed nationally. We've been writing about it since 2017, when Democrats passed the law authorizing the process. https://t.co/bbbfQuSMhq

— Katy Grimes (@KATYSaccitizen) June 3, 2026

We replied “So glad California’s corrupt month-long ballot counting, ballot curation, ballot harvesting process has been exposed nationally. We’ve been writing about it since 2017, when Democrats passed the law authorizing the process.”

Notably, Florida, which requires photo ID, uses a paper ballot-based voting system statewide, with optical scan tabulation as the primary method for counting votes. All ballots produce a voter-verifiable paper record, which serves as the official vote for audits, recounts, and verification. This is how California used to tabulate votes. And Florida calls its elections on Election Day, as do 30 other states. 

When Mike Benz said “I feel like we need to fix California before we fix Venezuela,” a X troll picked up Gov. Gavin Newsom’s standard answer and replied, “California is the top donor state. They send the federal government $83 billion a year. They lead the way in many areas. You just don’t like the way they run their elections. I think you need to start fixing the RED STATES.”

I feel like we need to fix California before we fix Venezuela https://t.co/fgId3mDWZY

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) June 8, 2026

That’s Gov. Gavin Newsom’s standard answer – to claim that California is the top donor state, meaning the state sends the federal government more funding every year than it takes back from the feds.

But while California is consistently the largest net donor state to the federal government in total dollars, it is primarily due to having 39 million residents, high economic output, and concentration of high-income earners who pay a disproportionate share of progressive federal taxes. California also receives the most federal spending in raw dollars among states because of its size. That has nothing to do with California’s messy elections, and ballot harvesting 30 days after Election Day.

Another X follower replied:

“I am an immigrant from Venezuela who became a US citizen. The fraud in California is how it started in Venezuela. I hope citizens take this glaring fraud seriously and secure elections before more unworthy people get voted into positions of power.”

Remember, it was just before the election at a press conference when Gov. Newsom actually announced that Democrats were going to actively intervene in the election process, in a “break-the-glass moment.”

US Attorney Essayli was on multiple news shows and explained that California is blocking a Federal Audit of Its voter rolls, and allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

• Gym membership card
• Employer ID card
• Credit or debit card
• Prescription drug label -Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)

He explains that this is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. “Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look. We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies. On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot. For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.”

“Assistant US Attorney Harmeet Dhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed. What are they afraid of?”

The only purpose of an all-mail-in balloted election, with no voter ID, ballot harvesting and miscellaneous ballot drop boxes, is to make it near impossible to prove the widespread fraud. As Essayli said, there is no way to connect the voter with the ballots dropped-off by a third party.

Ballots are curated in Skid Row by balloted harvesters, using homeless drug addicts:

“Raman’s late mail in ballot surge was fueled in large part by ballots from Skid Row. Tens of thousands of homeless whose ballots are sent to central addresses (not the sidewalk) & can be filled out/returned by someone else. Suspicious…”

As @BoredElonMusk & the data show, Raman’s late mail in ballot surge was fueled in large part by ballots from Skid Row.

Tens of thousands of homeless whose ballots are sent to central addresses (not the sidewalk) & can be filled out/returned by someone else.

Suspicious… https://t.co/Ch3yVr26WZ pic.twitter.com/lnHXDnQiFq

— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) June 7, 2026

All you have to do in California is handwrite the Election Date on the envelope in order for it to be valid.

James O’Keefe warned us in March:

“Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.”

CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.

“You can just put Pinocchio Lane.”

California NGOs Encourage Fake… pic.twitter.com/2pkylhgPY9

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 17, 2026

“California NGOs Encourage Fake Addresses To Homeless People To Sign Petitions & Register Voters, A State & Federal Felony. Footage Shows 28 Instances Of Cash Changing Hands For Ballot Signatures & Voter Registration Forms. Many of the petitioners had no understanding of the petitions’ purpose they were advertising. Circulators also instructed individuals to use fake addresses. ‘Oh, you can just fake an address.’”

Ballot harvesting is merely manufacturing votes on an as-needed basis. It is unbelievable that this has been going on since 2018, and only the Trump administration has sought to correct this illegality.