Republicans have set up unofficial ballot boxes in California.

[Lyubov]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/california-republicans-ballot-drop-boxes-cease-and-desist/index.html

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(CNN)The California Republican Party said Wednesday it will not comply with the state's cease-and-desist order over unofficial ballot drop boxes placed in at least four counties, escalating a brewing political showdown ahead of the November election.

The unauthorized ballot boxes, which state officials have called illegal, have been found in at least four counties across the state: Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange and Fresno.

"Ballot harvesting program will continue," California Republican Party spokesman Hector Barajas said in a statement to CNN.

The fight over the unofficial drop boxes comes as the coronavirus pandemic has led to historic interest in mail-in voting, even as President Donald Trump and the GOP have spent months attacking the integrity of mail ballots and fighting in court against drop boxes. Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims that the election tally will be fraudulent because of the proliferation of mail-in voting and drop box usage and has warned that he may not agree to a peaceful transfer of power due to those misleading beliefs.

The party made their intentions clear in a letter to the California Secretary of State on Wednesday. In the letter, attorneys for the state GOP say all of the ballot boxes deployed by the party are indoors, staffed by volunteers or party officials, secure and not labeled "official."

While images of the ballot boxes have shown the boxes labeled as "official," the state GOP said it did not authorize the use of that term and had it removed.

More proof of the massive amounts of projection the Republican party does when it comes to their downright voter suppression anti-democracy tactics... setting up their own voter ballot box LMAOOOO... I await hearing that some of these scumbags went through and tampered with some of these ballots. 

[Preety_India]

 

I knew they were up to no good. 

Now they're out of the woodwork. 

I already knew they'd pull something like that just 15  days shy of the election. 

 

[Hardkill]

Yeah, that really worries and upsets me, considering that I live in California. 

[Preety_India]

Look at them now. Who knew? 

 

Voter fraud in broad daylight.. 

Edited October 16, 2020 by Preety_India

[DocWatts]

Over the past few years it's been pretty shocking to see how fragile Democratic norms and institutions are in America, and how blatantly authoritarianism is being acceded to by roughly a third of the country (and yes, I'm placing anyone who's still planning on voting for Trump 2020 in to that category).

Plausible ignorance of Trump 's (and most of the Republican Party's) disdain for Democracy isn't a credible excuse, like it could be argued for in previous elections.

Edited October 16, 2020 by DocWatts