California has a problem with his choices.
It is not the way they are performed or managed, although there is certainly margin of improvement.
The problem is with a certain president of Pouty who cannot overcome the fact that California voters are simply not about him.
Donald Trump lost the state because of the a whopping 4.2 million votes in 2016. He took care of his bruised ego by suggesting that the result was contaminated by “millions and millions” of fraudulent tickets, despite the fact that there is evidence that this statement supports that statement .
In November, Trump won the White House, but still lost California for almost 3.2 million votes. It is not exactly a nail biting, but definitely better than its exhibitions in 2016 and 2020. Apparently, however, a gold star for progress was not enough to increase the self -esteem of our needed president.
“I think we would have won the state of California,” Trump told supporters of a celebration after the inyerguros, “if the State had stronger voters identification laws.” Another statement that is not remotely based on reality, but Trump goes to Trump.
Yes, it becomes exhausting. But that all complaint could be discarded as a more soda ventilation if the president had not threatened to retain the help desperately necessary for southern California, with southern California.
“I have a condition,” he told reporters before touring the carbonized remains of Pacific Palisades: voter identification legislation to remedy what Trump falsely described as a “very corrupt” state electoral system.
(He also reiterated his demand for California to change his water policies, but perhaps that has been resolved by the troops that Trump supposedly sent to light the water flow of the northwest of the Pacific. There were no troops and there is no such flow, but what whatever).
As expected, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, intervened with his own false electoral claims, stating that the Republicans lost three seats in the Chamber of Representatives of California in November due to the aromaty of counting votes. “Inexcusable,” he snorted, echoing Trump's suggestion that can be political terms for the relief of forest fires.
There is a lot of bad in that type of threats, including the fact that they are morally reprimanding and completely unprecedented in the US annals of the natural disaster, that is, until Trump appeared. But we will keep those regrets for another day.
There is also much that Trump, Johnson and his Allies of California are wrong about the integrity of the state electoral system.
To begin with, repeated national studies have shown that electoral fraud “is rarely and the impersonation of voters is almost non -existent,” as the Brennan Justice Center, a group of experts of laws and policies in the university has pointed out in the University New York.
That leaves us, let's make mathematics, millions and millions of less shy with the supposedly fraudulent votes that moved California in Trump.
As for the notoriously prolonged voting process of the State, it can be a source of irritation. (Even for many within the State). But there is also nothing nefarious there.
Over the years, California legislators have promulgated policies aimed at encouraging the greatest possible electoral participation, which is a commendable objective in a representative democracy. Once the votes are cast, the State does everything possible to ensure that they are well tabulated. And there are many to be counted. The number of presidential tickets issued in California last November, almost 16 million, exceeds the population of all but four states.
Time is needed to ensure that each of those ballots is legitimate. (This is how you avoid fraud).
That may require verifying the address of an individual or verifying their signature against the one in the file. Or send an email ticket that was left in the incorrect location to the county where he should have been chosen.
A considerable number of provisional tickets must also be processed. For example, if someone appears in the incorrect voting place, they are allowed to launch a ballot, which must then be examined.
All these steps maintain the final count, which, unfortunately, has invited false statements about the seats of the House of Representatives and stolen vote. There is a direct and perfectly innocent reason why the Democratic candidates sometimes get ahead after following the first returns: the election day vote has biased Republicans in recent years, while mail tickets, which are They say later, they have tended to favor the Democrats.
If you want faster results, the State should disburse more money to pay it. The counties are responsible for tabulating the ballots, but they do not get any sacrament for that responsibility. Let the State pay to hire more employees. In addition, legislators could do more to help electoral offices in the rural areas of California, which are in cash compared to those of large urban areas.
Another change that is worth considering: the change of registration databases of voters administered by the County to a system administered by the State promotes efficiency?
However, all these are relatively small modifications in a system that does not need an important review.
“For eight years, Trump has cried Wolf, pressing the claims to attack the integrity of California's elections,” Senator Alex Padilla, the former head of state elections, said in an email. “There is no evidence of generalized electoral fraud and Trump's actions are an attempt to sow distrust in California's elections because they don't like the results.”
It is rightly said that the elections have consequences. So do the lie about the elections.
False statements only serve to undermine faith in our democratic process and insult the many people who work diligently to guarantee the honesty and efficiency of our electoral system. They do it in increasingly stressful conditions and sometimes dangerous.
There is no damage taking into account if things can be done better.
But not holding tens of thousands of people whose lives have been devastated by the forest fire. “They deserve the support of its president,” Padilla said rightly, instead of “political games.”
And not looking for unnecessary solutions for a non -existent problem evoking by a president who is not only a painful loser but also a painful winner.
