One reason harvesters may wait until the last minute to dump their mail-in ballots is the hope (maybe incorrect) that a massive number of last-minute ballots have better chance of overwhelming the checks that’d be enforced if less exhausted workers were processing fewer ballots. https://t.co/e2roDZulGG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 12, 2026
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June 12, 2026 at 03:29AM
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“Ask at least 3 times.” https://t.co/uGM9wtE9vv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 12, 2026
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June 12, 2026 at 02:46AM
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‘Harvesting’ would seem to violate the secret ballot way more obviously than custodial interrogation violates the right against self-incrimination (Miranda v. Arizona). https://t.co/YmOuAB9zwB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 12, 2026
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June 12, 2026 at 12:00AM
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California Constitution, Article II, Sec 7:
“Voting shall be secret.”
Something ‘ballot harvesting,’ as practiced, even if allowed by statute, seems to clearly violate.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 11:55PM
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“Stop Being Certain on Election Night”–OK. but maybe also ‘Stop Being Certain There Was No Illegality on Election Night’ https://t.co/KGjl0BZYgn via @CurrentVenice
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 03:24PM
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Getting jerked around for three more months seems like a bad mid-term strategy for Trump, but what do I know.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:26PM
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I remember once walking around the block, wondering if i had a duty to report the shenanigans that were about to happen to the authorities. (Luckily the candidate himself told them to stop in time.) https://t.co/UZ7vcDkzTZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:14PM
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I remember once walking around the block, wondering if i had a duty to report the shenanigans that were about to happen to the authorities. (Luckily the candidate himself soon told them to stop in time.) https://t.co/UZ7vcDkzTZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:11PM
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As Trump’s always-imminent Iran deal fails and fails to materialize, a “walk away” strategy seems more and more appealing, no? https://t.co/C1zyHLsGKp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:01PM
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Good point. Thx https://t.co/6VQkO1qcXU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 01:32PM
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“I moved on Susan Collins like a bitch” https://t.co/ZKUkZfi17W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 01:00PM
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Is Hasan Piker doing gas ads now? https://t.co/2rzA9T3Vbb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:49AM
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“Production and non-supervisory workers” are like 80% of the labor force, not the bottom 20%.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:33AM
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I would want to see this chart for the bottom deciles of workers, or for unskilled workers, or for non-HS workers before I wrote off Trump’s term so far. …. https://t.co/szdBM1klc0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:30AM
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To people dismissing suspicions of fraud: Have you ever worked at the lowest level of a political campaign? The people who do it are idealistic and put in long hours for the cause. A non-trivial subset are CRAZY–zealots who’ll do anything to win. Even illegal things? OF COURSE. https://t.co/5JUKIDzD8D
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 02:12AM
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I remember back when ‘ballot harvesting’ first made news (2018), you got the impression ballots were just being collected and delivered. I remember one harvester telling the press she was told not to discriminate by party and didn’t fill out the ballot herself.
Now they are https://t.co/r0qQZPi3Sk— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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“[Aaccusations of fraud are almost irrelevant.” Um, no they’re not. Don’t go all Hitler Diaries on us!** It becomes a way to avoid investigating. https://t.co/rGby7Cc9gY
**–“Hitler’s diaries—genuine or not, it almost doesn’t matter in the end”–Newsweek, 1983
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 11, 2026
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June 11, 2026 at 01:22AM
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“And here it is that accusations of fraud are almost irrelevant.” Um, no they’re not. Don’t go all Hitler Diaries on us!** It becomes a way to avoid having to investigating. https://t.co/rGby7Cc9gY
**–“Hitler’s diaries—genuine or not, it almost doesn’t matter in the
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 10, 2026
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June 10, 2026 at 07:43PM
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OK. Thanks. Does that make it better or worse? (Dean is Dean Logan, LA’s registrar.) https://t.co/4dgv4HgFeQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 10, 2026
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June 10, 2026 at 02:57PM
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I mean, if the registrar can’t control the anti-GOP employees who write his social media posts, why do we think he can control the [anti-GOP] employees who count the votes? https://t.co/hIt6tyafNH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 10, 2026
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June 10, 2026 at 02:15PM
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For that matter, why is it the registrar’s business to talk smack about Steve Hilton? https://t.co/O6VFxmPIMw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 10, 2026
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“Dave” would say OK to homeless camps near schools? https://t.co/tHxM2ZReEp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026 at 08:30PM
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Biggest cliche in American journalism https://t.co/5MUwdEh9Eo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026 at 07:51PM
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Maybe he should keep campaigning! Caruso’s still campaigning, and he didn’t even run. https://t.co/aH2OMJ9GzN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026 at 07:50PM
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What’s legal is a scandal. But it’s too early to say the scandal is what’s legal. The scandal could also be what’s illegal! Let’s see what US Atty Essayli and others come up with. https://t.co/dNHXoVtctA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026 at 07:34PM
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