LA DA Recall Petiton and Invalid Signature Counts - Fallout?
Here in California, voters signed a petition to recall Los Angeles County DA because of his positions on what progressives call "criminal justice reform". Many deemed he was too soft on crime and initiated a petition to have him recalled on the ballot. The petition failed because approximately 200,000 of the 715,000 signatures were deemed invalid. Some were bogus, there were many duplicates, etc.
The thesis of this post is not about the DA himself or his views. It's the fact that about 28% of the signatures were invalid and consideration should be made about the general election process. This seems rather ominous when so many want essentially less oversight on general elections (more mail-ins, no voter ID, etc.). Now, granted, collecting petition signatures is different than a general election which requires voter registration and official ballots. But, when you consider even at the petition level, 28% of the signatures were invalid, how many general election registrations and/or ballots could be invalid and we'd never know it without voter verification and process quality validation?
I submit this is not about "left" vs. "right". Yes, all US citizens must be allowed to participate in elections. But, if we lose election integrity, we lose the country and potentially our freedoms. I'm not going to rehash the 2020 election... it's over and we have what we have. But when you look at how close it came in certain areas, significant determinate error could produce an invalid result. Kind of a scary thought. Heck, I'll probably be dead in 25 years. But you younger folks might do well to really think about this moving forward. After all, it will be your country.
The thesis of this post is not about the DA himself or his views. It's the fact that about 28% of the signatures were invalid and consideration should be made about the general election process. This seems rather ominous when so many want essentially less oversight on general elections (more mail-ins, no voter ID, etc.). Now, granted, collecting petition signatures is different than a general election which requires voter registration and official ballots. But, when you consider even at the petition level, 28% of the signatures were invalid, how many general election registrations and/or ballots could be invalid and we'd never know it without voter verification and process quality validation?
I submit this is not about "left" vs. "right". Yes, all US citizens must be allowed to participate in elections. But, if we lose election integrity, we lose the country and potentially our freedoms. I'm not going to rehash the 2020 election... it's over and we have what we have. But when you look at how close it came in certain areas, significant determinate error could produce an invalid result. Kind of a scary thought. Heck, I'll probably be dead in 25 years. But you younger folks might do well to really think about this moving forward. After all, it will be your country.
