CA Secretary of State Devises ‘Print-Your-Own Ballot From Home’ Program that’s Audit proof

August 10, 2021 — bunkerville

Just in time for the September 14 recall election of Governor Newsom.  The California Secretary of State is Shirley Weber.

According to her statement, the print-your-own ballot from home program takes effect on August 16, the beginning of Newsom’s recall election. There are claims that it is audit proof.

Did she invent this? Just who is she?

The State biography:

Shirley Nash Weber, Ph.D. was nominated to serve as California Secretary of State by Governor Gavin Newsom on December 22, 2020 and sworn into office on January 29, 2021. She is California’s first Black Secretary of State and only the fifth African American to serve as a state constitutional officer in California’s 170-year history.

Weber was born to sharecroppers in Hope, Arkansas during the segregationist Jim Crow era. Her father, who left Arkansas after being threatened by a lynch mob, did not have the opportunity to vote until he was in his 30s. Her grandfather never voted as custom and law in the South, before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, systemically suppressed voting by Blacks. Although her family moved to California when Weber was three years old, it was her family’s experience in the Jim Crow South that has driven her activism and legislative work. She has fought to secure and expand civil rights for all Californians, including restoring voting rights for individuals who have completed their prison term. 

Ripley’s believe it or not. Call this “equity” voting no doubt.

California Globe:

The Globe received a tip from a source about the Remote Accessible Vote by Mail (RAVBM) system.

It turns out this Remote Accessible Vote by Mail (RAVBM) system, which appears to have been created for the November 3, 2020 General Election, allows voters to mark their selections using their own compatible technology to vote independently and privately in the comfort of their own home. It appears to be a published but not menu-listed page. Are they hiding it on purpose?

And how many ballots in the 2020 General Election were cast using these make-your-own ballots?

CA SOS Remote Accessible Vote-By-Mail. (Photo: CAsos.ca.gov)

Here are more details from the SOS page:

How to Request RAVBM

A voter can request a RAVBM when they review their information on My Voter Status or by contacting their County Elections Office by phone, mail or email or by going to their County Elections Office website for more information.

How to Use RAVBM

A voter using RAVBM:

  • Downloads the application to mark their selections,
  • Marks their selections for each contest using their compatible technology, on their computer or tablet,
  • Prints and returns their marked selections by mail using the postage paid envelope included with their vote by mail ballot or using their own envelope which would require postage. The return envelope used in any instance, must have the voter’s signature on the outside of the envelope. The voter can also return their selections in person to a voting location, drop box, or their County Elections Office. A voter cannot submit their selections online. It must be mailed or returned in person.

The vote-by-mail envelope being mailed to all Californian’s, includes punched holes that will help guide visually impaired voters where the signature is needed. However, if a voter is using their own envelope, they can sign anywhere on the outside of the envelope.

The Secretary of State’s Office currently has four certified RAVBM systems:

Patty Murray at Gateway Pundit asks a good question: “So, how does California prevent ballots that are printed at home from bleeding through flimsy printing paper? The answer—they don’t.”

Well, there are a few more questions that need to be asked:

Can you print out more than one ballot? How are these verified and by whom? Why can’t these ballots be dropped off? Why must they be mailed?

What could possibly go wrong?

Did California invent an audit-proof way to steal elections?

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Gateway Pundit has more here

CA Implements Audit-Proof Way To Steal Election That Goes Into Effect Just In Time For Newsom’s Recall Election

 
Of course the GOP are a dollar short and a day late. Where is the media? Simple me.
 

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54 Responses to “CA Secretary of State Devises ‘Print-Your-Own Ballot From Home’ Program that’s Audit proof”

  1. Steve Dennis Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    A poll comes out last week that shows him losing by double digits and then suddenly this plan is unveiled?! It’s pretty obvious what is going on here and they do not even care how easily this plan can be seen through. The end justifies the means…

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  3. Baysider Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 2:19 pm

    “Newsom isn’t exactly Mr Congeniality.” True. And Biden isn’t exactly a fully alive human being. But he’s sitting – or being propped up – in the oval office. Despite recent polls of Newsom being far behind, he is part of a familial cabal that has governed California since the 50’s, with the exception of a few Republicans. This is fascinating reading here.

    The teachers unions and prison guard unions are extremely powerful and will go full bore to keep their puppet in the play.

    The ballot thing? What can possibly surprise? It is enough to let a million illegal votes be counted. Why even bother with an election?

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    • Baysider Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 2:22 pm

      I shoudda put the teaser in for that link. It really IS fascinating. The work of one of California’s top columnists who covered Sacramento all his life.

      He writes about the “decades-long saga of four San Francisco families intertwined by blood, by marriage, by money, by culture and, of course, by politics – the Browns, the Newsoms, the Pelosi’s and the Gettys.”

      Hmm. Pelosi. Where have I heard that name?

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    • Baysider Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 2:26 pm

      Hope this doesn’t post twice. But it disappeared when I clicked to post.

      I added this teaser to encourage reading my link. From the column: “decades-long saga of four San Francisco families intertwined by blood, by marriage, by money, by culture and, of course, by politics – the Browns, the Newsoms, the Pelosi’s and the Gettys.”

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    • bunkerville Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 2:52 pm

      I had no idea as I am not up on CA politics… thanks… fills in some of the blanks… a stranglehold.

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  4. lgbmiel Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 12:59 pm

    Why am I thinking that ballots have to be printed on specific paper?? I know I read that a couple different places.

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  5. markone1blog Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 11:42 am

    If I am printing these things, filling them out, and mailing them from Texas — I cannot think of any Texas law that I am breaking.

    If California decides they want to seek out and prosecute those who completed their ballots in ways they don’t like, they would have to find me in Texas.

    Seems to me like we should play their game.

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  7. markone1blog Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 11:25 am

    Interesting. I wonder if they would reject my ballot or the ballot of cousin Jürgen?

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  8. Sparky Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 10:25 am

    A thought: directly after the end of the War of Northern Aggression, in the State of South Carolina, a group of Patriotic men mounted their steeds and rode from polling place to polling place to vote to keep the carpetbaggers from taking over their lands, lives, fortunes, etc. to tip the scales from them using the then liberated slaves to destroy what was left of our beautiful Country. Perhaps we should do the same and print from home like we are a CA resident. Throw a monkey wrench into their evil plans, as we used to say. Can they tell where one lives? You didn’t hear it from me … *wink*

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  9. nrringlee Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 9:53 am

    California is long since gone over the edge. As the seed bed of Progressive New Left ideology and public policy it always leads the nation in crazy. But I learned on clear truth about them at one of their finer institutions of higher learning: they eat their own and their frag pattern is not big. Self destruction is the logical end of their dreams. So be it.

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  10. Mustang Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 9:23 am

    The founding fathers were insightful in many areas, but voting was not one of them. There is no right to vote in the original US Constitution. There are laws that pertain to non-discriminatory voting procedures, but I think what we will find, beyond prohibitions of racial discrimination, is that US voting laws address election systems rather than an individual’s right to vote. So, we are now (and have been since around 1870) struggling with an issue the founding fathers largely ignored. It is up to states and smaller political units to determine (within the guidelines of federal law) their own voting rights parameters. California has taken a very liberal path, even to the extent of allowing (because it was never addressed in the founding document) voting by non-US citizens. For example, the Civil War amendments, having first established who is an American citizen, prohibits states from denying voting opportunities to US citizens; but no federal law (to my knowledge) reserves voting rights in US elections to only those who are US citizens. California apparently decided that citizens of that state, whether or not recognized as citizens of the United States, may vote.

    That said, I am not surprised that CA has also decided to implement downloadable ballots. I had to laugh, actually, in reading the procedures for using RAVBM forms. California has the country’s largest population, so to imagine that country voting offices have the capacity to verify each and every RAVBM ballot (to guard against multiple voting) is laughable on its face. But, in the long term, it may not matter to anyone not living in CA. I am a staunch advocate of “states’ rights,” so I have to accept the fact that, quoting Betty White (a communist if ever there was one), it’s how California rolls.

    From a historical perspective, though, we should all wonder why laws prohibit the exclusion of voting by illiterate people. Yes, voting ballots do offer choices between Jim Jones and Barney Smith, but they also include changes to state and county laws that use sophisticated language. How does an illiterate person vote responsibly if he or she doesn’t understand the language of lawmakers? I guess the answer, contrary to everything I’ve always believed, is that voting isn’t all that important because none of us has a Constitutional right to vote in the first place.

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    • bunkerville Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 10:09 am

      Jefferson originally wanted to give only property owners the right to vote. He may have been on to something.. A immoral people will corrupt the voting system. Lay this at the hands of George Soros who figured out the unknown position of Secretary of State the door to his magic world of corruption beyond measure.

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      • Baysider Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 2:04 pm

        I still agree. Just remember that a “property owner” was broadly a man who owned land, a business, or possessed the tools of his trade. In the earliest years this wasn’t so, but property requirements devolved to encompass men who essentially had a stake in the community – omitting drifters and grifters. A carpenter with a toolbox qualified. An unknown out-of-towner who charged up to the voting booth on election day did not, happily.

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      • bunkerville Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 2:57 pm

        Add students that arrive on the scene and no nothing about local elections and questions. Destroying our zoning and other ordinances.. They are a menace to local voting. Thousands of them,

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    • Mustang Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 10:17 am

      It is a reasonable assumption that only those with a stake in the success of a political entity (country, state, county) will vote cautiously and responsibly. The problem with Jefferson’s and Madison’s (elitist) argument is the answer to the question, “What constitutes property?” Lots of people live in their cars; are they therefore entitled to vote based on owning property? In any case, the political elite continues to determine who, and under what circumstances and processes, a person may vote. So many problems, so little time.

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    • lgbmiel Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 12:56 pm

      The Constitution doesn’t talk about a Right to vote because states held the elections. The federal government did not hold any elections, so it wasn’t necessary to mention a Right to vote in the Constitution which creates the federal government. It doesn’t mean voting isn’t important — it’s vital. Government was created to guarantee all our Rights — especially the ones not mentioned in the Constitution. Which is why the Ninth Amendment is so important. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

      People talk about ‘Constitutional Rights.’ We don’t have ‘Constitutional Rights.’ We have Constitutionally protected Rights. Some of our Rights are mentioned in the Constitution. They aren’t the only Rights we have.

      States held the elections and states had different determinations for who were citizens and who could vote. The Fourteenth Amendment — meant for freed slaves — established a Country-wide standard for citizenship which all states had to follow.

      Which is why we then needed the amendments regarding voting to bring all the different state standards to a Country-wide standard.

      P.S. I have to take issue — in a very gentle, good-natured way — with your characterization that the ‘Right to vote’ is not in the Constitution. Several Amendments mention the ‘Right to vote.’ Amendments are part of the Constitution, just as the original Articles are part of the Constitution. Article V of the Constitution makes that clear.

      Article V

      The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

      I’m sorry. I don’t mean to sound scolding or like I’m lecturing. I so hope no one takes my comments this way.

      I wanna sound like School House Rock. If I could put this to music, make a song, I would.

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      • bunkerville Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 1:39 pm

        Not at all.. Well thought out comment and I thank you. Adding to this bizarro question we find ourselves with today.

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      • lgbmiel Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 1:43 pm

        Thanks, Bunker. You’re always so kind!!

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      • Mustang Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 5:11 pm

        I appreciate the dialogue. Your point about federal electioneering is spot on. I was curious about how colonists voted before the Revolution. What I learned was that In many places, election days were social occasions accompanied by much eating and drinking. When it came time to vote, those qualified would simply gather together and signify their choices by voice or by standing up. As time went on, this form of public voting was gradually abandoned in favor of secret paper ballots. For a while, however, some colonies required published lists showing how each voter cast his ballot. This probably did not work out to the benefit of loyalists. 🙂

        I also learned that voting fraud and abuses were common in the colonies. Sometimes large landowners would grant temporary freeholds to landless men who then handed the deeds back after voting. Individuals were paid to vote a certain way or paid not to vote at all. Corrupt voting officials would allow unqualified persons to vote while denying legitimate voters the right to cast their ballots. Intimidation and threats, even violence, was used to persuade people how to vote. Ballots were faked, purposely miscounted, somehow lost, or destroyed. I guess there is no separating humans from human behavior …

        After declaring independence on July 4, 1776, each former English colony wrote a state constitution. Only around half of the states attempted to reform their voting procedures. The trend in these states was to do away with the freehold requirement in favor of granting all taxpaying, free, adult males the right to vote. Since few men escaped paying taxes of some sort, suffrage expanded in these states.

        Vermont’s constitution went even further in 1777 when it became the first state to grant universal male suffrage. Some states also abolished religious tests for voting.

        So I suppose one can argue that the founding fathers simply inferred the right to vote. It seems odd to affirm a right in the Fifteenth Amendment that was never specifically identified in the Constitution. Well, but those guys were all lawyers, so …

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      • lgbmiel Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 7:26 pm

        Social occasions, I like that. Don’t quite like the idea of votes not being private, lol.

        States have their own voting laws — important in a federation. Also important is that the federal government establish Constitutional laws states must follow in their voting laws. I’m a super-duper strong supporter of state powers. I like a small, weak federal government. There are some basic foundational voting requirements all states should follow. The most important being that only citizens vote!

        Voting — choosing who makes our laws — is both a privilege and a duty of only citizens!!! Only citizens have this Right. Only citizens have the power to decide what laws are made and who will be elected to craft and pass these laws.

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    • Baysider Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 2:06 pm

      That’s a very thoughtful comment on literacy requirements. Ashamed I never thought of it. Makes complete sense. The only rub is if you force people to remain illiterate. … Wait a minute. Aren’t we doing that now?

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      • Mustang Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 5:49 pm

        Just because people today can read and write at the 5th grade level doesn’t make them literate in an increasingly complex world. I do believe that our high school graduates are not as “educated” as were 8th graders back around the year 1900, or college graduates as knowledgeable as 9th graders of the same period. How does a degree in African American studies make one better able to meet challenges in the 21st Century? We’ve become too specialized in the post-secondary education racket.

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      • Mustang Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 6:28 pm

        I take that back, Baysider. Boy oh boy, is my face red! If you have a degree in African-American studies, you can become the California Secretary of State. My bad.

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      • Baysider Says:
        August 11, 2021 at 12:33 am

        THAT is funny, Mustang. 🙂 A degree in afro-am studies indeed. As a young adult I came into possession of a 5th grade literature reader from 1900. I can assure you I NEVER read or learned that stuff at that grade.

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    • Bill H. Says:
      August 10, 2021 at 6:01 pm

      In his novel “Starship Troopers,” set in the far distant future, Robert Heinlein postulated a nation that gave the vote only to those who had successfully completed a tour of government service. They could not vote while in service, only after their service was completed. In a discussion as to why that criteria was used, a professor said it was because that system worked, and that throughout history all other criteria for granting the right to vote had failed. Could be. Certainly our present system has failed.

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      • lgbmiel Says:
        August 10, 2021 at 7:43 pm

        That is a very interesting system. I don’t think I would be opposed to that. Our current system definitely has failings.

        I wrote in another comment that voting is a privilege and duty. We are really messing this up. People vote without knowing a single thing about the candidates or the job elected officials do.

        Political parties control everything, having replaced constituents in making all the decisions regarding elected officials.

        Maybe a new system is needed. Only people who have served the People — worked in government — can vote. It would need to be a constant overturning of new people rotating in and out of all aspects of government service. No more career government employees.

        I like it.

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  11. Linda Says:
    August 10, 2021 at 8:00 am

    Sigh, what possibly could go wrong? (rhetorical question, no need to answer, lol)

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