Tuesday is the last day for Californians to vote in the state government withdrawal election, which is expected to win incumbent Democrat Gavin Newsom. His main Republican opponent is a conservative talk show host named Larry Elder, who has been backed by several of the most prominent right-wing figures nationwide and who is campaigning against vaccine mandates. In July, Elder hosted a self-identified Texas doctor, “Kathy,” on his radio show. He suggested that Bill Gates might be using the vaccine to control minority populations and said that among other things COVID could be treated. -19, hydrogen peroxide and antiparasitic drug ivermectin.)
On Monday, NBC News noted that Elder’s campaign website has begun linking to another campaign-funded site, StopCAFraud, which claims fraud has been “detected” in the election results , that, if you remember earlier, this message is not finished:
Republican Larry Elder on Monday appealed to his supporters to use an online form to report fraud, claiming he had “detected fraud” in the “results” of the “California withdrawal election” that led to the reinstatement of the Governor Gavin Newsom as Governor “.
You’re reading this right: A website paid for by Newsom’s main competitor says Newsom has won the election and been “reinstated” in a job it never stopped doing:
Statistical analyzes used to detect fraud in elections held in third world nations (such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran) have detected fraud in California, which has led to the reinstatement of Governor Gavin Newsom as governor. The main analytical tool used was Benford’s law and can be easily reproduced.
Benford’s law, which came up a lot in late 2020, is a real statistical idea that can be used to detect potentially fraudulent data sets, but it can’t travel back in time to do so in the future. Current California results will begin arriving at 8 p.m., Pacific Time, Tuesday, though a winner may not be declared immediately. So far, the state has only published the first votes to identify the party, which, while useful in predicting the end result, are not the kind of information that would possibly lead to the conclusion that Newsom had won his career to remain governor, fraudulently. or otherwise.
The claimed goal of Elder’s new seat is to collect signatures for a petition calling for a legal review of the election. Their language implies, albeit in a very confusing and unnecessarily elaborate way, that violence may also be necessary:
They say there are four freedom boxes in America. The soap box, the urn, the jury box and the ammunition box. When we vote, we exercise our rights as Californians and as Americans to make our voices heard through the ballot box, after we have heard others make their voices heard through the tray. We rely on our elected officials to safeguard this ballot box, so that its results truly reflect our will as a Californian. However, when these officials, whether out of laziness or incompetence, allow thieves to steal in the middle of the night and cheat our ballot boxes, we can no longer trust their contents. Will we now have to fight the California jury box, hoping that the final box, the most similar to Pandora’s, will remain closed?
Never open the final box. He is the only one more similar to those of Pandora!
The other key touch of 2021-style Republican politics, in which anyone who knows how things work is perceived with suspicion by basic voters, on Elder’s new page is that the petition calls for “a special session of the California legislature to investigate and improve the broken results of this 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom election. ” In California, special sessions of the legislature can only be convened by the governor.
To review this, this document is indeed a letter to Newsom (which is probably not sent to him) asking him to convene a special session to investigate his own victory in an election that is not yet over.
Ultimately, an explanation of what’s happening is next to a checkbox at the bottom of the page, below a form asking for your address, email address, and phone number. of the recipient:
I would like to receive email and SMS marketing updates from StopCAFraud.com and partners.
So it’s a fundraising thing.