I’m not saying there is fraud, or was fraud. Haven’t seen any evidence, and the legit explanations for the Raman surge seem (kinda) adequate. I’m saying if this is true, and someone wanted to stuff the ballot box, the door was/is wide open. https://t.co/o1spYumxhG
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Jun 7, 2026
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Third part of this seems to be a huge admission. The defense against voting a false ballot relies on signature verification. But “If you’re unable to sign, you can make a “mark” like a dot or slash… I asked them how they verify these signatures. Turns out, they simply don’t.” https://t.co/qTBCejoZVr
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Jun 7, 2026
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UPDATE: Now it says my ballot “will be counted.” So it hasn’t been counted yet? It wasn’t a mail-in. https://t.co/wrL20PN3L8
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Jun 7, 2026
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Not a crazy theory. I’m not sure that many voters are that sophisticated. Suspect more just foolishly decided Pratt was the hated Team MAGA, when basically he just wants to clean up the streets and punish Bass. https://t.co/s4k66uA6u0
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Jun 7, 2026
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Claude did not know Raman was catching up with Pratt. That would be “quite a story.” I am now filling it in on the situation.
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You’re getting ahead of things. But either way a Pratt/Raman or Raman/Pratt alliance makes sense, no? A problem is that they’ve painted Pratt as MAGA (inaccurately, I think) and Raman voters may be triggered. https://t.co/VdXBraFetb
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Jun 6, 2026
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That would have been a smart thing to do … https://t.co/CbHR00f3Cc
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And here is link to the study NPR is talking about.
https://t.co/zPFn5eVOVE— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 6, 2026
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Link: https://t.co/IY5g8vfq0N
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Seems like a big potential opening for “harvesting” fraud–not manufacturing ballots for your guy but losing the ballots for the other guy: “If a voter trusts a stranger with their ballot, there is no recourse if that ballot doesn’t show up at the elections office. And there is
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 6, 2026
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So the CA Ballot Tracker tells me my ballot’s been “Accepted” but not whether it’s been “Counted”?
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Jun 6, 2026
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It could have been a boom economy without the inflation (certainly without the high gas prices). … https://t.co/EIoqg0o6TI
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Jun 6, 2026
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The best Pratt voters are getting tonight … https://t.co/7Kzc6O60Hg
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Jun 6, 2026
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SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS … Imagine how strong the economy would be if Trump hadn’t started his foolish Iran war. Imagine how much stronger his chance of holding Congress would be. https://t.co/7ezirJo3vO
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Jun 6, 2026
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NPR being NPR:” A new study suggests that the National Guard’s presence has done little to reduce violent crime in Washington, D.C., despite the steep cost..”
Eventually you learn there was a “24% reduction in opportunistic crimes, like theft or vehicle break-ins”–the sort of— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 6, 2026
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I was wondering about that, given the role of “subjectivity” in deciding which ballots to throw out. … https://t.co/74IIMl9bKX
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Jun 5, 2026
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Didn’t @Vox just denounce partisan primary elections? https://t.co/UnszIybV9Z Make up your minds, people! https://t.co/rWRlHQuAHn
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Jun 5, 2026
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Hilton doesn’t have to outrun the bear. He just has to outrun Becerra. https://t.co/QkGq6md1r2
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Jun 5, 2026
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They’ll drop one of these vote bunches every night for the next 8 nights. It’s Election Hanukkah https://t.co/Odgz2ZSsBT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2026
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Why so few votes counted? https://t.co/tgkUqwXm6E
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Jun 4, 2026
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WOKE VOTING: Maybe CA’s extreme voting system–maximize participation, damn the delay and fraud potential–is another Peak Woke phenomenon that will now be moderated as common sense reasserts itself. https://t.co/FjiJb76aNY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2026
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Re: Scott Pelley/ @CBS–I’ve been on staff at magazines when an editor you like is replaced by an outsider you distrust. I’ve never thrown a fit like Pelley did. That’s just not what you do. You make the new person feel at home and then stab them in the back as soon as you can.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2026
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No. If you didn’t have universal mail-in voting you wouldn’t create so much opportunity for fraud and you would’t need all the time-consuming checks. https://t.co/RQYgAOK52v
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2026
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If Republicans hate the CA wait-a-month mail voting system, and Dems realize CA’s bad rep is hurting them–why doesn’t someone sponsor a ballot initiative to get rid of it? https://t.co/LMduYeU7k4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 4, 2026
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On the subjectivity problem: I remember the recent petition to recall woke LA DA George Gascon, which was kept off the ballot when the registrar’s office–headed by Dean Logan, whom Republicans trust not at all–disqualified a large number of signatures. https://t.co/qcSMIH32g5 https://t.co/Q5ng7gDK2e
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