You’re Looking For The Crime Scene In The Wrong Place

Many people believe the Los Angeles mayoral election is being stolen.

They’re wrong.

It was stolen months ago; perhaps years ago.

There was a mayoral election in L.A. on June 2. The initial results showed that the top two finishers were going to be Karen Bass, the current mayor of L.A., who literally trained in Cuba as a revolutionary — and she was the moderate Democrat in that particular race — and Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV star who ran as an independent Republican and had been running an extremely viral online campaign. The third person was Nithya Raman, who’s on the L.A. City Council and is a complete psychotic leftist.

When the initial results came in on June 2, it looked as though Spencer Pratt and Karen Bass were going to be the people to win; the very early results on election night showed that Pratt was up some 25,000 votes on Raman, and Bass was up another 30,000 votes on Pratt.

And then, as the election results came in by June 4-5, Spencer Pratt’s votes had flatlined, and there was a fairly significant increase in votes for Nithya Raman. By June 6, the mayoral counts started to shift radically in favor of Nithya Rama.

One of the things that’s fascinating here is that you can see that the lines for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman started elevating at the same rate between June 4-6 and they flatlined completely for Spencer Pratt, which means virtually all of the early votes that were cast on the Raman v. Pratt side were cast in favor of Pratt — or at least heavily biased for Pratt — and all the late-breaking votes, meaning the mail-in ballots, were heavily biased toward Nithya Raman.

This was not a glitch. It is the blueprint.

I know a lot of people right now are very upset that the initial results looked more Republican and conservative, and then, as more results came in, the graphs shifted toward Democrats. We saw this in 2020, most obviously, when the early results seemed to show President Donald Trump in the lead, and everybody had been talking about the fact that mail-in ballots, which in many cases were counted after the actual day of the election, would shift toward blue because Democrats were voting significantly by mail.

When I say the election was stolen months ago, I mean that state regulations benefit ballot harvesting. I think the way people generally think of stolen elections is wrong. I don’t think you have a bunch of people sitting there falsifying ballots, or a ballot tabulator picking up an empty ballot, filling in a fake name or ID number, and then writing in the ballot.

I don’t think that’s what’s actually happening here.

What’s actually happening is widespread voter registration and then ballot harvesting. According to California state regulations, first-time voters can vote using — I’m not making this up — a commercial credit card or a health club ID. So that LA Fitness ID that somebody got five years ago, never used, can be used to register to vote. The law in California explicitly says that any doubt must be liberally construed to allow a person to cast a regular ballot, with zero real verification.

When you combine legal ballot harvesting with the total collapse of voter ID, you end up with some pretty shady election practices. And this is why I think people were shocked.

Nithya Raman gave a speech on the night of the election, crying. It looked as though she had basically conceded the race. And now it turns out she will probably be in the runoff against Karen Bass.

Spencer Pratt reacted to this by writing, “A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday …  43,000. Where have I seen that number before? Probably nothing.”

That 43,000 is a reference to the fact that the city of L.A. currently has approximately 43,695 homeless people, including people in temporary shelters.

That means ballot harvesters will go to homeless shelters and ask people if they wish to vote, and then, in some cases, they’ll help them mark the ballot, or they’ll stand over them while they mark it. And then they will take those ballots to a drop box and drop them off.

According to California’s Vote 411, you can cast a valid vote by mail as long as your ballot is postmarked or dropped off in a drop box on Election Day. In 2021, California law mandated that every active voter in the state receive a mail-in ballot.

What you’ve seen since 2016 is not only a radical increase in voter turnout in California, but also a radical increase in mail-in balloting. In the 2024 election cycle, 80% of all Californians voted by mail. Seventy-two percent of L.A. County voted by mail. Voter turnout in 2024 was 62.1%. That is the second-highest turnout in California state history. That is more raw votes cast than in 2008, when Barack Obama was on the ballot, and you got this sort of historic voter turnout.

In 2020, which, of course, is a wild outlier election because of Covid, 87% of all Californians voted by mail. Seventy-eight percent of L.A. County voted by mail. Voter turnout was almost 70%, the highest in California’s modern history.

If you wonder, one reason President Trump has talked so much about the stolen 2020 election — although I think the evidence is scanty that there was voter fraud sufficient to overcome the burden of proof — is that 24 states and Washington, D.C., allowed a voter to designate any person to drop off their completed ballot.

Ballot harvesters go to the houses of the people whom they know are registered Democrats. They knock on the door and say, “Give me your ballot. I want to make sure that it gets in on time.”

Some states, such as California, allow designated persons to return an unlimited number of ballots. Other states cap the quantity to prevent large-scale operations.

Colorado, for example, caps at 10 ballots per person. But in California, you can go pick up 100 ballots. You’re a Democratic state representative, a party worker. You go out, and you pick up 500 ballots from addresses that you know are registered Democrats, boosting your voter turnout.

That’s why President Trump is skeptical about the 2020 election: the combination of mail-in voting and ballot harvesting meant that two-thirds of Americans turned out to vote.

If you’re wondering why people are suspicious of our elections, this is the reason.