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Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

mmmkay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

What a pathetic process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

Do you understand anything about scale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

Do you understand anything about scale?

It's more than that. Every ballot has to be cured. Signatures checked against voter registration etc

This stuff takes time to be done right.

And a lot of Californians wait till the very last minute to vote by mail...crazy but they do. So it takes time for those ballots to arrive.

We've gone through this every election since Trump lost. When things aren't going their way it is always fraud to Republicans...when they win it's legit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The way Rahman is suddenly catching up with Pratt in mind-bending leaps and bounds is extremely suspicious. Very suspicious.

No it’s not. Really not.

So, it just so happens that people who voted in person greatly preferred Pratt to Raman, but then people who voted by mail suddenly have a drastically opposite voting pattern? Explain that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The way Rahman is suddenly catching up with Pratt in mind-bending leaps and bounds is extremely suspicious. Very suspicious.

No it’s not. Really not.

So, it just so happens that people who voted in person greatly preferred Pratt to Raman, but then people who voted by mail suddenly have a drastically opposite voting pattern? Explain that.

I think you are misrepresenting what is happening but let's take you at face value.

It would make sense that the Republicans who think mail in ballots are fraud would go in person. I mean you've made the argument yourself or people like you have

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

WTF? You are crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

Do you understand anything about scale?

It's more than that. Every ballot has to be cured. Signatures checked against voter registration etc

This stuff takes time to be done right.

And a lot of Californians wait till the very last minute to vote by mail...crazy but they do. So it takes time for those ballots to arrive.

We've gone through this every election since Trump lost. When things aren't going their way it is always fraud to Republicans...when they win it's legit

Great to hear that Democrats think all elections are legit.

[Anonymous]

So sad, CA makes America look like a 3rd world country with respect to vote counting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what the people here are debating whether Spencer Pratt deserves a pay love are not getting. The popularity of his campaign is fueled by voters who are sick of do-nothing Democrats running the city into the ground.

Because why do voters support this strange man who has based his entire narrative as a “do nothing?” No real job, irresponsibly spends tons of money based on the irrational belief that the world was ending, expects a bailout after foolishly choosing to live in a home in an area where he apparently cannot (or will not) pay for insurance. This guy is a terrible decision-maker as the head of his household and he’s supposed to make prudent decisions for millions of people in one of the biggest cities on earth? Why are we even debating this??

It's really hard to get through to a skull as intentionally thick as yours. Let's try this again. The question you should be asking is why Democrats feel entitled to do nothing about deteriorating cities and then think voters should keep voting for them. Does that kind of entitlement sound like a winning strategy to you?

LA doesn't deserve a reality TV show idiot just because their current mayor is a terrible executive who needs to go. Biden was a terrible leader who needed to go but as we've quickly come to find out since January of 2025, replacing an unfit leader with someone who is both unfit and unhinged is not a winning formula. Why can't Bass be met with competent competitors who are deserving and qualified for the position?

Sounds like the LA political scene is a microcosm of our national political scene. A race to the bottom.

Describe what makes a person deserving and qualified to be a politician.

For this high profile executive position, you'd be looking for someone with elite leadership skills and first and foremost, integrity. Prior executive experience would be an obvious bonus.

What are elite leadership skills? What sort of executive experience?

An executive like Trump, who makes them feels good about hating fellow Americans while they do insider trading, give their nepo spawn government contracts, and all that.

Pratt will plunder Los Angeles’s budget for him and cronies putting him up to run.

Meanwhile, Bass has LA’s murder rate at a 65 year low, the new Metro lines are opening, and the city is on a building spree to get ready for the Olympics.

White conservatives hate her because she is black.

OMG. You will never grow up, will you? Yes, blame her unpopularity on the fact that she's black, rather than the fact that the vast majority of Angelenos are fed up with her. Idiot.

Either way, the mayor will have suffered the rebuke of having nearly two-thirds of voters casting their ballots for someone else — a sharp turn of fortune from the general election of 2022, when the then-congresswoman captured upward of 43 percent of the vote in a 12-candidate primary and then defeated real estate developer Rick Caruso by close to 10 points.

The voters in the nation’s second-largest city are predominantly Democrat, like Bass. But her struggle to win them over shows that anti-incumbent anger transcends partisanship, especially in cities where rampant homelessness is in clear view.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/karen-bass-cant-avoid-a-runoff-amid-an-angry-spasm-in-los-angeles/ar-AA24KfNw?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Yawn, cry some more. She’s getting way more done than Pratt ever would. She’s been on top of all the Olympic organizing. Like I said, crime near record lows. Gun crime way down.

And yes, white conservatives in California absolutely do hate black politicians. I should know, because I’m a white guy from LA who heard all of it

She’s not a perfect politician. But soooo much better than grievance filled nepo brat Pratt who is a profligate spender and the crooks backing him. Plus, Pratt would bend the knee to Trump immediately.

Crime is way down because no one bothers to report crime anymore because nothing is done. It is hard to even get a report taken.

Like day laborers who were paid to throw away trash in Tarzana and loaded black yard trash bags in their truck but noticed something was wrong with how they felt. They looked inside and saw a torso. They unloaded the truck and told the owner they weren't taking it. They went to TWO different police stations to report it. First the CA highway patrol told them to go to another police station and then the officer at the front desk told them to call it in. So they left and NO report was taken. Only later were body parts found in a dumpster by a random homeless guy. Turns out it was the guy's wife. Her parents ended up being missing and their bodies have never been found.

As of this month the LAPD has failed to publish accurate, detailed public crime data for over the past two years. The agency took its online crime map dark in early 2024 for a supposed 6 month migration to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Two years past the deadline, the data is still no where to be seen.

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Anyone who keeps talking about how crime is down with a straight face is either not from California or just a straight up liar.

+2.

James Handy was just stabbed to death in LA.

https://abcnews.com/US/veteran-actor-james-handy-fatally-stabbed-los-angeles/story?id=133611290

Stepson is the suspect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sad, CA makes America look like a 3rd world country with respect to vote counting.

How so? The Electoral Count Act gives states 45 days to certify their votes and have their Electors cast their votes for POTUS/VP.

Why are you so mad about California certify elections in 30 days? This is NORMAL.

Maybe you should ask if Florida is cutting corners by certifying so quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t done counting it yet?

Los Angeles has more people than a few stand-alone states.

That's a bullshit answer. LA has fewer than 4 million people. Florida has over 23 million and they manage to have state wide elections counted and decided the same day.

The problem with California is that they 1) send ballots to everyone - some people still live there, some do not. They have not managed their voter rolls. 2) They allow a full week after the election day for them to be returned. Insanity. They receive their ballots nearly a month before election day. 3) they allow voters to "cure" their ballots if there is an issue.

The election process in CA leaves people wondering about the integrity of the vote and the vote count. And, for good reason.

I’m a Californian and I don’t trust our vote counting process at all. It’s absurd. And I’m a lifelong Democrat, albeit one who is going to register independent soon.

I expect Raman will win, and I do not think it will be an honest win. Probably ballot harvesting, and likely fraudulent.

Do you understand anything about scale?

It's more than that. Every ballot has to be cured. Signatures checked against voter registration etc

This stuff takes time to be done right.

And a lot of Californians wait till the very last minute to vote by mail...crazy but they do. So it takes time for those ballots to arrive.

We've gone through this every election since Trump lost. When things aren't going their way it is always fraud to Republicans...when they win it's legit

California has been like this forever, since way before Trump lost. It was unclear how big the blue wave in 2018 was for a month while they counted up the votes for the house seats in California.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sad, CA makes America look like a 3rd world country with respect to vote counting.

How so? The Electoral Count Act gives states 45 days to certify their votes and have their Electors cast their votes for POTUS/VP.

Why are you so mad about California certify elections in 30 days? This is NORMAL.

Maybe you should ask if Florida is cutting corners by certifying so quickly.

30 days? Ridiculous!

[Anonymous]

Mail in voting is slower because of signature matching. Most people vote by mail in California because it's easy and nobody wants to drive to their polling place which is always out of the way. Also, mail service is generally slow because it relies on manual human power in a place where it is always hot. People get physically tired in the heat. Also, the state requires counties to accept late ballots and handle provisional ballots in a certain way.

So there are just lots of factors that make California very slow to count all the ballots. But they do get counted eventually.