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Pratt's post-election mail-in ballots declined by 1/3. So, statistically, the population of people that send in their
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ballots late reduced for Pratt by a third, increased for Nithya Raman by 80% and Karen Bass 10% less. If you just
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look at the mail-in ballots before and after election day as a comparison. I don't know if there's a sociopolitical
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way that you can assess those statistics and assume that these are individuals casting their individual vote for who
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they think should be mayor of LA. Basically, the concentration of incremental votes that Nithya Raman got
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came around the Skid Row area in Los Angeles. But, when you look at the basic statistics of what happened in person,
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mail-in before, mail-in after election day, it becomes a real statistical quagmire
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on how did this sort of a sociopolitical shift happen in such a way that it did.
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Now, there was a report published and they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges
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that they saw arise in that midterm elections because of some of the legislative changes that were made.
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First, California Assembly Bill 1921 legalized the practice of unlimited ballot harvesting in the state. What
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that means is that any individual in the state of California has the right to go
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and collect ballots from any other individuals regardless of relationship, fill them out and send them in.
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California 2 years later, 18 months later, also passed a law that made it permanent that every person registered
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in the state of California would get a ballot. So, tens of millions of ballots then get mailed out. Then there was
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another series of laws that were passed that said anyone can register to vote. You don't need to prove your
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citizenship. You can use a gym membership card as an example. So, anyone can register to vote. There is no
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proof of ID when you get a ballot. There's no demonstration that the person who fills out the ballot has anything to
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do with the individual who's supposed to be voting that ballot and it is legal for an individual to go out and collect
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hundreds or thousands of ballots, ship them in, and they will all qualify in these kind of mail-in ballot voting
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processes. So, there's nothing illegal or fraudulent going on. In fact, the system is operating exactly as intended.
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It has been set up and structured in a way that with the right construct, you can get an individual appointed, not
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elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a {quote} free election in California.