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California Election Rigging - FIX IS IN
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On 04 Apr 2022, Trump Is A RUSSIAN ASSET <jth...@gmail.com> posted some
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> That's how Democrats get away with it in California. They rig the
> elections before they even start.
This is the incompetent black DEI employee who did it.
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OOPS! SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE ISSUES CORRECTION AFTER PRIMARY BALLOT
SCREW-UP
In a statement issued last Friday, the California Secretary of State’s
Office acknowledged a mistake that led to Democratic U.S. Senate
candidate Christina Pascucci receiving a “No Ballot Designation”
identifier on both the March 5 primary ballot and the accompanying voter
guide.
Pascucci, a former Los Angeles TV news journalist, should have received
the designation “Local Television Journalist,” according to a statement
from Secretary Shirley Weber’s office.
The mistake has been corrected online, but it is too late to fix the
ballots or official voter information guides.
Weber’s office said it was “an administrative error” that led to the
mistake.
In a statement to The Bee, Weber’s office said that “this oversight was
the result of an internal miscommunication. We have worked with the
candidate to mitigate the incorrect ballot designation, and reviewed our
internal processes to better ensure this does not happen again.”
It’s unclear what steps the Secretary of State’s Office is taking to
prevent this from recurring.
Pascucci, 38, already faces a long shot campaign to fill the seat
vacated by the death of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She is running
against more well known Democratic candidates, including U.S. House
Reps. Adam Schiff, 63; Katie Porter, 50; and Barbara Lee, 77; as well as
Steve Garvey, 75, a former baseball player running as a Republican, all
of whom are polling higher.
But with this mistake, that campaign becomes that much harder.
In an interview with The Bee, Pascucci said her polling numbers halved
when she was listed as “No Ballot Designation.”
“Early voting starts in one week, (voters) sit down with a ballot and
the two things they see are her name, Christina’s name, and those three
words, the ballot designation,” said Steve Churchwell, Pascucci’s
election attorney.
Pascucci said that this process has been “hugely distressing” for her,
ever since she first learned of the mistake in late December.
“We had the confirmation (from the Secretary of State’s Office), we were
good to go. The next thing I know, I see the posted list, it says ‘No
Ballot Designation,’” she said.
As Pascucci noted, while Schiff currently holds a small lead in polls,
the race for No. 2 is a tight one, and her ballot designation could have
a ripple effect. For example, people might decide that they want to vote
for a Democratic woman, but choose Porter or Lee instead because they
have specific designations, Pascucci said.
“If I were Garvey’s camp, I’d be paying close attention,” she said.
So what should be done?
Pascucci said that reprinting the ballots and voter guides would cost
state taxpayers millions of dollars, and that’s something she has no
interest in doing. Churchwell said that the campaign requested that
Weber’s office use voter emails, where they have them, to contact them
and notify them of the correction, but he said that request was
declined.
So now, the campaign is working with dozens of voter registrars to see
what can be done at the local level.
For University of Southern California professor and political analyst
Dan Schnur, there’s only one thing to do.
“The only fair course of action at this point is to reprint the ballots,
and if that’s no longer possible because of the secretary of state’s own
error, then there should be a serious discussion of whether the primary
should be delayed,” he said. “...I don’t know of any other way to make
the candidate whole.”
Pascucci stopped short of endorsing that idea, but did say that while
she doesn’t want to interfere in the election or waste state money, “I
also think it is of the utmost importance that we have integrity in our
elections.”
“I see this as such a fundamentally huge blunder,” she said.
NEW CALIFORNIA BILLS AIM TO PROTECT CHILDREN ONLINE, DRAW HEAVY
CRITICISM
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a pair of Democratic Bay
Area lawmakers Monday to unveil two bills aimed at increasing
protections for children online.
First up is SB 976, by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.
That bill would require social media platforms to offer parents the
choice of whether their child under the age of 18 receives a
chronological content feed, from users they follow, or an algorithmic
feed that shows people content beyond what they follow.
The bill also would empower parents to block their children from
accessing social media platforms or receiving notifications during
nighttime or school hours.
Then there is AB 1949, by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
This bill would strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act by
barring social media companies from collecting, using, sharing or
selling the data of anyone under 18 unless they receive informed consent
— for users under 13, that consent must come from a parent. Violations
of this bill, should it become law, would be punishable by civil
penalties of up to $5,000 per violation.
In a statement, Bonta said that social media companies have demonstrated
they are willing to subject children to harmful and addictive content
for profit.
“As kids and young adults increasingly socialize, learn, and work
online, we must create a safer online space for children to learn,
explore, and play. This cannot wait. We need to act now to protect our
children. It’s time to move fast and fix things,” Bonta said.
Skinner added in a statement that California lawmakers are done waiting
for social media companies to act.
“Social media companies have designed their platforms to addict users,
especially our kids. Countless studies show that once a young person has
a social media addiction, they experience higher rates of depression,
anxiety, and low self-esteem,” she said.
Wicks said in a statement that her bill is “a crucial step” toward
closing the gaps in California’s privacy laws “that have allowed tech
giants to exploit and monetize our kids’ sensitive data with impunity.”
The bills also received praise from Common Sense Media, which advocates
for stronger child safeguards online.
“The bills would improve privacy protections for teenagers and address
addictive design features of social media platforms,” said Daniel Weiss,
chief advocacy officer for the organization.
Unsurprisingly, the bills have received pushback, from both the social
media sector and digital civil rights group the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
The foundation, in response to an inquiry from The Bee, released a
statement saying that while the EFF has yet to see or analyze the text
of SB 976, the group has concerns.
“We recognize the genuine concern for the well-being of children and
welcome conversation about how to address it. However, we have raised
considerable concerns about past iterations of similar proposals, which
run the risk of harming the expression and privacy rights of those they
seek to protect. We look forward to reviewing the new bill,” said EFF
Associate Director of Legislative Activism Hayley Tsukayama.
The center-left Chamber of Progress, led by former Google executive Adam
Kovacevich, released a statement on both bills, saying that they “will
actually mean more harmful content and less curation for young social
media users.”
“Most parents want to see social media moving in the opposite direction,
but chronological feeds reward spam posting rather than quality content.
To make matters worse, these bills would violate privacy by requiring
online platforms to conduct identity verification on all users, not just
minors, in order to comply with the new regulations,” Kovacevich said in
a statement.
NetChoice, a trade group representing social media companies like
Facebook- and Instagram-parent company Meta, also released a statement
condemning the bills.
Carl Szabo, NetChoice vice president and general counsel, said that
these “same harmful ideas” were recycled from the 2022 Age-Appropriate
Design Code Act, which is currently being litigated and which has been
enjoined from going into effect until that lawsuit is resolved.
Szabo said bills such as SB 976 and AB 1949 “are part of an insulting
ongoing drumbeat that parents are too weak and stupid to know how to
raise their children — and that the government should do it for them.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If square miles voted, this map would matter. People, not acreage,
vote. And GOP slippage in the suburbs is what makes this map a picture
of failure. Telling yourself this is a map of victory is delusional.”
- Former California GOP Chair Ron Nehring, discussing a map shared by
former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon showing which counties voted
for Trump in 2020, via X, the platform formerly known on Twitter.
Best of The Bee:
A California grocery clerk accused of driving cross-country on a mission
to kill or kidnap President Joe Biden and a host of other elected
officials pleaded guilty in an Iowa courtroom Monday to making threats
against Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, court records say, via
Sam Stanton.
A long list of candidates are running to replace Sean Loloee in the
Sacramento City Council’s 2nd District, and new documents give voters a
glimpse into who’s funding their campaigns, via Theresa Clift.
In November 2022, just 564 votes separated the candidates in
California’s 13th Congressional District, a purple stretch of San
Joaquin Valley farmland. Rep. John Duarte, R-Modesto, won what turned
out to be the second-closest House race in the United States over former
Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced. Both are running again, as the only
candidates in the March 5 primary, and Democrats are making the seat one
of their highest priorities in the nation to flip. Analysts say the race
is again too close to call, via Gillian Brassil.
https://news.yahoo.com/fundamentally-huge-blunder-california-secretary-12
5500906.html
news:t2f2of$3ivp5$1...@news.freedyn.de:
> That's how Democrats get away with it in California. They rig the
> elections before they even start.
This is the incompetent black DEI employee who did it.
https://drshirleyweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/WEB22-Shirley-Weber-
SoS.png
OOPS! SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE ISSUES CORRECTION AFTER PRIMARY BALLOT
SCREW-UP
In a statement issued last Friday, the California Secretary of State’s
Office acknowledged a mistake that led to Democratic U.S. Senate
candidate Christina Pascucci receiving a “No Ballot Designation”
identifier on both the March 5 primary ballot and the accompanying voter
guide.
Pascucci, a former Los Angeles TV news journalist, should have received
the designation “Local Television Journalist,” according to a statement
from Secretary Shirley Weber’s office.
The mistake has been corrected online, but it is too late to fix the
ballots or official voter information guides.
Weber’s office said it was “an administrative error” that led to the
mistake.
In a statement to The Bee, Weber’s office said that “this oversight was
the result of an internal miscommunication. We have worked with the
candidate to mitigate the incorrect ballot designation, and reviewed our
internal processes to better ensure this does not happen again.”
It’s unclear what steps the Secretary of State’s Office is taking to
prevent this from recurring.
Pascucci, 38, already faces a long shot campaign to fill the seat
vacated by the death of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She is running
against more well known Democratic candidates, including U.S. House
Reps. Adam Schiff, 63; Katie Porter, 50; and Barbara Lee, 77; as well as
Steve Garvey, 75, a former baseball player running as a Republican, all
of whom are polling higher.
But with this mistake, that campaign becomes that much harder.
In an interview with The Bee, Pascucci said her polling numbers halved
when she was listed as “No Ballot Designation.”
“Early voting starts in one week, (voters) sit down with a ballot and
the two things they see are her name, Christina’s name, and those three
words, the ballot designation,” said Steve Churchwell, Pascucci’s
election attorney.
Pascucci said that this process has been “hugely distressing” for her,
ever since she first learned of the mistake in late December.
“We had the confirmation (from the Secretary of State’s Office), we were
good to go. The next thing I know, I see the posted list, it says ‘No
Ballot Designation,’” she said.
As Pascucci noted, while Schiff currently holds a small lead in polls,
the race for No. 2 is a tight one, and her ballot designation could have
a ripple effect. For example, people might decide that they want to vote
for a Democratic woman, but choose Porter or Lee instead because they
have specific designations, Pascucci said.
“If I were Garvey’s camp, I’d be paying close attention,” she said.
So what should be done?
Pascucci said that reprinting the ballots and voter guides would cost
state taxpayers millions of dollars, and that’s something she has no
interest in doing. Churchwell said that the campaign requested that
Weber’s office use voter emails, where they have them, to contact them
and notify them of the correction, but he said that request was
declined.
So now, the campaign is working with dozens of voter registrars to see
what can be done at the local level.
For University of Southern California professor and political analyst
Dan Schnur, there’s only one thing to do.
“The only fair course of action at this point is to reprint the ballots,
and if that’s no longer possible because of the secretary of state’s own
error, then there should be a serious discussion of whether the primary
should be delayed,” he said. “...I don’t know of any other way to make
the candidate whole.”
Pascucci stopped short of endorsing that idea, but did say that while
she doesn’t want to interfere in the election or waste state money, “I
also think it is of the utmost importance that we have integrity in our
elections.”
“I see this as such a fundamentally huge blunder,” she said.
NEW CALIFORNIA BILLS AIM TO PROTECT CHILDREN ONLINE, DRAW HEAVY
CRITICISM
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a pair of Democratic Bay
Area lawmakers Monday to unveil two bills aimed at increasing
protections for children online.
First up is SB 976, by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.
That bill would require social media platforms to offer parents the
choice of whether their child under the age of 18 receives a
chronological content feed, from users they follow, or an algorithmic
feed that shows people content beyond what they follow.
The bill also would empower parents to block their children from
accessing social media platforms or receiving notifications during
nighttime or school hours.
Then there is AB 1949, by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
This bill would strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act by
barring social media companies from collecting, using, sharing or
selling the data of anyone under 18 unless they receive informed consent
— for users under 13, that consent must come from a parent. Violations
of this bill, should it become law, would be punishable by civil
penalties of up to $5,000 per violation.
In a statement, Bonta said that social media companies have demonstrated
they are willing to subject children to harmful and addictive content
for profit.
“As kids and young adults increasingly socialize, learn, and work
online, we must create a safer online space for children to learn,
explore, and play. This cannot wait. We need to act now to protect our
children. It’s time to move fast and fix things,” Bonta said.
Skinner added in a statement that California lawmakers are done waiting
for social media companies to act.
“Social media companies have designed their platforms to addict users,
especially our kids. Countless studies show that once a young person has
a social media addiction, they experience higher rates of depression,
anxiety, and low self-esteem,” she said.
Wicks said in a statement that her bill is “a crucial step” toward
closing the gaps in California’s privacy laws “that have allowed tech
giants to exploit and monetize our kids’ sensitive data with impunity.”
The bills also received praise from Common Sense Media, which advocates
for stronger child safeguards online.
“The bills would improve privacy protections for teenagers and address
addictive design features of social media platforms,” said Daniel Weiss,
chief advocacy officer for the organization.
Unsurprisingly, the bills have received pushback, from both the social
media sector and digital civil rights group the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
The foundation, in response to an inquiry from The Bee, released a
statement saying that while the EFF has yet to see or analyze the text
of SB 976, the group has concerns.
“We recognize the genuine concern for the well-being of children and
welcome conversation about how to address it. However, we have raised
considerable concerns about past iterations of similar proposals, which
run the risk of harming the expression and privacy rights of those they
seek to protect. We look forward to reviewing the new bill,” said EFF
Associate Director of Legislative Activism Hayley Tsukayama.
The center-left Chamber of Progress, led by former Google executive Adam
Kovacevich, released a statement on both bills, saying that they “will
actually mean more harmful content and less curation for young social
media users.”
“Most parents want to see social media moving in the opposite direction,
but chronological feeds reward spam posting rather than quality content.
To make matters worse, these bills would violate privacy by requiring
online platforms to conduct identity verification on all users, not just
minors, in order to comply with the new regulations,” Kovacevich said in
a statement.
NetChoice, a trade group representing social media companies like
Facebook- and Instagram-parent company Meta, also released a statement
condemning the bills.
Carl Szabo, NetChoice vice president and general counsel, said that
these “same harmful ideas” were recycled from the 2022 Age-Appropriate
Design Code Act, which is currently being litigated and which has been
enjoined from going into effect until that lawsuit is resolved.
Szabo said bills such as SB 976 and AB 1949 “are part of an insulting
ongoing drumbeat that parents are too weak and stupid to know how to
raise their children — and that the government should do it for them.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If square miles voted, this map would matter. People, not acreage,
vote. And GOP slippage in the suburbs is what makes this map a picture
of failure. Telling yourself this is a map of victory is delusional.”
- Former California GOP Chair Ron Nehring, discussing a map shared by
former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon showing which counties voted
for Trump in 2020, via X, the platform formerly known on Twitter.
Best of The Bee:
A California grocery clerk accused of driving cross-country on a mission
to kill or kidnap President Joe Biden and a host of other elected
officials pleaded guilty in an Iowa courtroom Monday to making threats
against Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, court records say, via
Sam Stanton.
A long list of candidates are running to replace Sean Loloee in the
Sacramento City Council’s 2nd District, and new documents give voters a
glimpse into who’s funding their campaigns, via Theresa Clift.
In November 2022, just 564 votes separated the candidates in
California’s 13th Congressional District, a purple stretch of San
Joaquin Valley farmland. Rep. John Duarte, R-Modesto, won what turned
out to be the second-closest House race in the United States over former
Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced. Both are running again, as the only
candidates in the March 5 primary, and Democrats are making the seat one
of their highest priorities in the nation to flip. Analysts say the race
is again too close to call, via Gillian Brassil.
https://news.yahoo.com/fundamentally-huge-blunder-california-secretary-12
5500906.html
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