CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Fighting Republican Fraud Continues

Out in California the Republicans are DESPERATELY trying to split California's electoral college votes because they KNOW they are unlikely to be winning many elections in the near future if the election is fair. Of course they aren't willing to do it the fair way which would be to reform the system across the country. But fairness is not what they care about. Greed is all they care about.

This initiative was started by a Missouri Republican (so it isn't even a home grown California initiative) who had previously been fined by a court for ass-biting. Makes you wonder about Republicans when California Republicans follow an ass-biter from Missouri. But it seems that they are having big problems convincing people to sign their petitions because Californians have woken up to the fact that this initiative would make California irrelavent in Presidential elections. So they have been trying to con people into signing their petitions by hiding it behind a petition to provide funding for children with cancer. Once they get someone signing the cancer initiative, they try to slip in the election stealing initiative.

And yet they STILL can't get enough signatures. They have missed the filing deadline for the signatures. But they don't care...they think they can keep gathering signatures and file late and get away with it.

From the LA Times:

SACRAMENTO -- As deadlines came and went, backers of an initiative that could affect the 2008 presidential election continued struggling Friday to gather enough signatures to place the measure before voters...

Initiative organizers often miss deadlines and still qualify their measures, but pushing the target date is risky. Once signatures are submitted, local elections authorities must verify them and send them to the secretary of state, who certifies the measure for the ballot.

From Daily Kos:

Submitting signatures after the filing deadline MUST BE CHALLENGED!

Hundreds of thousands of ill-gotten signatures MUST BE DISQUALIFIED!

I can't do that myself. The California Attorney General, The Secretary of State, or an official from their office make the challenge. An individual or group of California citizens can file suit, if they have the resources. However it happens, it must happen, if the petitions signatures are ultimately submitted.

I hope the right people are paying attention, because this story is not getting the coverage it deserves. This one tactic would almost certainly determine the final outcome of the presidential election. How many times must this be said?

These are the vitally important steps that you need to take today:

1. If you witnessed or were duped into signing petitions for the CA electoral votes initiative, please contact the California Attorney General's Office, or the California Secretary of State in some way. Leaving a phone message is great, a written letter is the BEST. Inviting a local congressperson to dinner and asking him/her to deliver the message would be better, I suppose. They might call you back, probably not, though. The point is for the bean counters to total up as many calls on this as possible.

2. Take the time to contact the above people if you are a CA citizen and you're just f#%*#g mad that a group of electoral thugs might force an invalid initiative on the ballot.

3. Find a reason to blog somewhere about it, send an email to your friends, mention it while on a long drive with the fam. (Believe it or not, it helps to tell people which way a "Yes" or "No" vote actually goes on some initiatives. Many voters got to the polls, utterly devoid of any memory of the political chatter thats been occurring the previous months, and vote for whatever looks nice.)

Keep fighting this latest Republican voter fraud. It never ceases to amaze me how Republicans prefer fraud to honesty...I guess they know that if they are honest, no one will vote their way.