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For reference and comparison, California has a population of roughly 39 million people.
https://www.kcra.com/article/us-election-voter-fraud-investi...
> Voter fraud claims persist. The numbers tell a different story
> A national investigation identified 513 proven voter fraud cases since 2016, representing a small fraction of the more than 685 million votes cast during that period.
> The National Investigative Unit analysis showed the top five states where proven fraud occurred since 2016 were Florida with nearly 12 percent of cases, North Carolina at nearly 11 percent, and California, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with seven, five, and four percent of the instances.
> The overwhelming majority of individuals committing voter fraud – 85 percent – were U.S. citizens, and more than half of all instances were tied to a general election when the number of people heading to the polls is the largest.
See if you see the circle that they create.
1. You can get an ID without being a citizen. 2. You are automatically registered to vote when you get an ID. 3. It's the honor system when you get your ID, you check a box if you are NOT a citizen, otherwise, you are automatically registered to vote. It's not verified ever. 4. It is ILLEGAL for anyone at a voting booth to even ask you for ID anyway, so you can still vote, even without an ID.
I saw a study, you can probably find it. Half of the people that got called in for jury duty and were unable to perform said they were not legal citizens, and thusly couldn't serve in a jury. The jury duty pool is pulled from the same pool as voting eligible citizens.
Ultimately, because CA makes the person check the box (the honor system) saying if they are legal or not legal, they can claim that they make it illegal for non-citizens to vote. But effectively because of all of the above, they make it so easy that the statement is useless. In addition, they refuse to run an audit or hand over information for the fed to run an audit. So while the number of prosecutions for voter fraud are low, we really have no idea how deep it goes.
The Nick Shirley video exposing people getting paid to both vote and sign petitions shows that fraud is, at the very least, happening quite regularly.
Republicans in CA have no chance. None whatsoever. I'm OK with that if the process is fair. But CA doesn't make it fair. You can make the same argument about gerrymandering in other places but CA takes it so far beyond just gerrymandering. It's quite egregious and sad.
I am not a republican. I consider myself a libertarian and I have very liberal ideas, though the word liberal has now been co-opted and doesn't mean what the definition of the word means.
Ultimately I would like to see the 2 party system abolished. My preference would be to start a politcal party either called the Spock party or the Logic party. Every decision's #1 criteria would be: Is it logical? Let's take emotion out of the process and just use logic.
#2 would be to make all bills require the simplest form possible. If you want to start a bill to improve veteran benefits, it should have no pork or anything unrelated to that specific goal.
#3, the bills should be named accurately based on the goal of the billl. This way, you can't make a bill that's called the "Increasing Veteran Benefits Bill" that really has to do with datacenters, and then your opponent can say "He voted against the increasing veteran benefits bill!" knowing full well it had nothing to do with that.
#4, all major issues should be voted on by all citizens. Citizens would take politics more seriously if they were able to have more direct control and vote more often. We have the technology to do it. Imagine that you are able to vote from home (or a library, or in person) weekly on issues that truly matter. The politicians would have much less power and hopefully our citizenship would start to care and educate themselves more.
Edit: Found the article. This tries to debunk it, but it doesn't mention if they were or weren't registered to vote. That's it's argument that it's fake. But it doesn't know, no one knows, and that's the problem: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.C7UN99E
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-voters-have-a-party-a... (Control-F "How many voters are registered Republicans?" graphic) ("The largest numbers of registered Republicans are in California (5.8 million, or 25.0% of the state’s registered voters) and Florida (5.6 million, or 41.6%). Wyoming has the highest percentage of registered Republicans (78.2%).")
To your point, even with the systems in place, there is little if any evidence of voter fraud. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Prove that voter fraud is widespread and systemic. You cannot. The system optimizes for the opposite of voter disenfranchisement. It is easy to register, and easy to throw illegitimate votes out (if the voter is not a legit voter). A voter turned away is a vote potentially lost forever. This is a system optimization choice, to not disenfranchise voters.
(conservative ideals are a function of brain structure, and that cohort continues to age out in the aggregate voting population: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634883 [citations])
> #4, all major issues should be voted on by all citizens. Citizens would take politics more seriously if they were able to have more direct control and vote more often. We have the technology to do it. Imagine that you are able to vote from home (or a library, or in person) weekly on issues that truly matter. The politicians would have much less power and hopefully our citizenship would start to care and educate themselves more.
Well, recent polling shows tens of millions of Americans didn't vote in the last presidential election because they were not interested. Unless you make voting compulsory, its a choice for folks to not vote. You cannot make people care, without a law. Should we make a law? I don't know, perhaps people should have the freedom to not care, I cannot say.
I agree with your points about having more than two political parties, bills being accurate and "clean," and more citizens being actively engaged in the governance and political process. I wish those the best who intend to work on tackling these problems over the next several decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...