California crooking the books!

I have wondered from time to time why it is that Californians keep voting in Democrat regimes to their State and City legislatures.  Until fairly recently I put it down to the fact that most of them were thicker than a box of spanners and, like little babes being offered regular spoonfuls of sweet goo, they simply swallowed the bribes and handouts offered by their Democrat politicians without ever giving a thought to where the money was coming from.  Well, now they must be thinking about it because in the last few years the money has started to run out.  One by one Californian cities are going bankrupt.  Policemen, firemen and teachers are being laid off because there are no means of paying them.  Today it is cities, tomorrow perhaps entire counties and, one wonders, how long before the entire State goes belly-up?  And yet . . . and yet . . . still they vote the Democrat ticket!  I was beginning to wonder that if they are that 'stoopid' how much money I might have made flogging my old bits of second-hand shrapnel 'over there'.  But now I begin to see the reason.

It's not 'stoopidity', it's crookery!  According to Jim Kouri's report in The Examiner, an analysis of Californian voting records indicates that more than 720,000 voter registrations are invalid.  Quoting the words of a Ms. Taitz, herself a lawyer and a candidate for office, Kouri reports:

[A]n examination of California's database revealed 723,620 voter registrations which are not valid because of missing birth dates on the forms.

"California's elections code 2150 and 2152 stipulate that an affidavit from an elector has to contain a valid birth date, valid country of origin, a Social Security number, drivers license or a number assigned to the voter if there is no Social Security number or Drivers License number,"

Apparently, the public service(?) employees at the Registration Offices were in the habit of simply entering in birth dates off the top of their heads which has resulted in thousands of registered voters appearing to be up to 150-years old!  In addition there were about 500,000 registrations with no country of origin entered.

It is, of course, a pure coincidence that the very principled Democrat party has maintained an absolute opposition to Republican plans to insist on voter  identification at the poll booths.  They do so on the high-minded grounds that such a policy would discriminate agains the poor, and suggestions that the real reason is that it would decimate the Democrat vote if all the crookery and fraud was stopped, are despicable calumnies of no more worth than those who suggest that the Democrat party is a shoddy collection of shysters and crooks who have reduced American elections to the level of Third World countries.

And that's just California.  God knows what's going on in Illinois and Chicago!

Hat tip to IHTM

 

Comments

[A K Haart]

My brother and sister-in-law live in Seattle and would like to buy a place in California because they like it - particularly the climate. What they don't like is the failed politics, so they are reluctantly giving it a miss. Too risky.

[dearieme]

There's no need to buy in California, is there? There must be tons of property to rent.

[David Duff]

As I understand it, from my skim-reading of sundry American rags, the middle-classes are getting out of California as fast as they can so that shortly, all that will be left will be the mega-rich who can afford the eye-watering tax rates, or the mega poor who don't pay.

[dearieme]

One retires with a pension from, say, the California Teachers' Pension Fund, and then moves to a different state, thus ensuring that none of the pension is spent in Californ-i-a. It'll end not with a whimper but a bang.

[JK]

It might appear to you David, 'your skim-reading' would be more or less correct. However don't delude yourself, realize our four years correspondence hasn't just been me being the bad influence you occasionally put forward.

Well. Maybe more than occasional.

AK? Might advise your brother 'n wife, there's more to the State of Arkansas' turning Republican over the past 20 year span than beautiful scenery. 'Course it helps to enjoy moonshine - and pass the jug freely!

[JK]

Given I've mentioned moonshine and there was the recent commentary concerning the beauty of unadorned single malts (and my own long love goes by the name of Glenfiddich) Arkansas' moonshine is a ne're blended spirit. Alas no malt - nor peat come to think of it.

And, if one must pollute the virgin spirit - there're springs springing forth all round. 'N depending on whether one places roots in the mountainous northern reaches then there are rivers safe to drink from.

(The county in which I reside.)

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=5375

[Dom]

Do you know what they say in Chicago on voting day? "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead?". (HT Clayton Cramer)

[JK]

☺ Dom!

[David Duff]

Dom - many thanks, you started my day with a laugh!

JK: Since starting this blogging lark I have learned a great deal, none of it particularly useful but most of it fascinating. Perhaps the biggest 'secret' I stumbled upon, thanks to you, was Arkansas. I never stop telling my friends that if I ever re-visist the States, Arkansas will be my first stop. Drop dead gorgeous,as they say.