{"id":5306,"date":"2007-11-15T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2007-11-15T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T01:37:54","slug":"ballot-petition-fraud-occuring-in-support-of-californias-republican-electoral-college-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5306","title":{"rendered":"Ballot Petition Fraud Occuring in Support of California’s Republican Electoral College Initiative?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad from the road…<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, the dirty trickster Republicans, who are again attempting to put an undead<\/a> initiative on the California ballot to re-apportion the state’s Electoral Votes to split them up by Congressional District (instead of winner-take-all, as it has been for years, and is in almost every other state), would never resort to dirty tricks — and fraud<\/i> — to get their initiative onto the ballot, would they?<\/p>\n

Worse, they would never stoop as low as using the guise of support for children’s cancer hospitals to achieve their goal, would they?<\/p>\n

This posted yesterday<\/a> by a UC Santa Barbara graduate student…<\/p>\n

Today I witnessed what I think is an incidence of ballot petition fraud relating to the electoral vote apportionment initiative – the proposal to apportion California’s electoral votes by congressional district, unilaterally giving 19 of California’s electoral votes to the Republicans in 2008.<\/p>\n

Outside the UCEN (student center plus bookstore plus food court) at UC Santa Barbara, there were a number of people with cardboard clipboards soliciting people to sign ballot petitions for a proposal to spend $1 billion on cancer hospitals for kids. If you agree to sign, they tell you “you need to sign 4 times.” What they do not tell you is that the three pages after the ballot initiative on cancer hospitals are different ballot initiatives: the second proposes to abolish eminent domain, the third proposals to abolish rent control, and the fourth is the proposal to apportion California’s electoral votes by district (the so-called Dirty Tricks Initiative).<\/p>\n

I should note that the clipboard is arranged such that a rubber band holding the petitions to the cardboard is positioned on the top of the page, across the actual ballot language in question – thus, partially hiding the text of the ballot initiatives on pages 2-4 unless you actually stop and pull down the top of the page.<\/p>\n

I agreed to sign the cancer initiative, but the comment about signing four times raised a red flag, because I’m familiar with the structure of ballot petitions, so I paused before signing and looked at the other initiatives. However, I’m absolutely sure that most of the people signing, young college students on a rush to get their lunches and off to class, did not take this step.<\/p><\/div>\n

(Thanks to BRAD BLOG<\/a> reader GM for the tip.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad from the road… Of course, the dirty trickster Republicans, who are again attempting to put an undead initiative on the California ballot to re-apportion the state’s Electoral Votes to split them up by Congressional District (instead of winner-take-all, as it has been for years, and is in almost every other state), would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,169,122,106,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2008","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}