Seven days after voters cast their ballots, the standing of the candidates flipped dramatically when avowed Communist and foreign-born L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman suddenly surged past outsider conservative Spencer Pratt for second place in the City’s “jungle primary” for Mayor.
Pratt appeared to have a strong lead over Raman on Wednesday, one day after the election, with over 40,000 more votes. That lead slowly shrank over the next several days, dropping to a 33,000-vote lead on Friday.
Raman jumped from roughly 111,000 votes on Wednesday to 197,000 as of Monday morning, allowing her to squeak past Pratt by just over 3,000 votes, according to an Associated Press analysis published by our friends at Blaze Media.
“On election night, Pratt led Raman by about 40,000 votes — roughly a 10-point advantage,” KTTV reporter Matthew Seedorff stated. “As of tonight, Raman now leads Pratt by about 3,100 votes, a net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.”
Riding on the strength of those statistically improbable late-night “dumps” of ballots, the Leftwing media quickly “called” the election over, Pratt’s outsider candidacy done, and the race for Mayor now a contest between two Far-Left Democrat Communists.
One week after Election Day, California has counted only 83% of the votes, while Florida, and even India, are able to count and report their vote totals the night of the election.
The final polls leading up to the election showed the three candidates separated by a few points.
A survey conducted May 19-24 by the University of California Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times gave Bass just a one-point lead over Raman and a four-point lead over Pratt, which the Times referred to as “statistically insignificant” for the incumbent mayor, noted Candace Hathaway in a report for Blaze.
As our friend retired Col. John Mills noted in a post to his must-read substack, the results should be no surprise, the California voting system allowing curated ballots (where Election Officials can search for the voter and make sure they really did not mean to drop off a ballot with no vote marked and other craziness) ensures the machine can generate as many votes as they need to ensure victory.
This is what happened in November 2024 where five to eight House seats were lost by Republicans as the curating went on.
The curating always inflates the count of the Blue candidate while the non-Blue candidate vote count remains static, concluded Col. Mills.
"They are dropping fast because it's a rigged election," President Trump remarked over the weekend, referring to the Republican candidates losing ground as mail-in ballots were counted. "Four days and they aren't even close to coming up with [the final vote totals]. You know why they are doing that? Because they are cheating on the election?" he concluded.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and a Trump appointee, said Friday his office had opened "multiple election fraud investigations" related to California's elections and sent a prosecutor to the county's vote-counting center.
The vote-counting in the closely watched race for Governor of California is proceeding along similar lines, as of June 5, only 6 million gubernatorial primary ballots had been counted, and an estimated 3 million remained to be processed. As in the Mayoral race, Far-Left billionaire Tom Steyer, who ended Election Night in third place, is slowly creeping up on conservative outsider Steve Hilton, who was a strong second to establishment Democrat hack, and Biden-era Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra when the polls closed on Election Night.
Pratt appeared to have a strong lead over Raman on Wednesday, one day after the election, with over 40,000 more votes. That lead slowly shrank over the next several days, dropping to a 33,000-vote lead on Friday.
Raman jumped from roughly 111,000 votes on Wednesday to 197,000 as of Monday morning, allowing her to squeak past Pratt by just over 3,000 votes, according to an Associated Press analysis published by our friends at Blaze Media.
“On election night, Pratt led Raman by about 40,000 votes — roughly a 10-point advantage,” KTTV reporter Matthew Seedorff stated. “As of tonight, Raman now leads Pratt by about 3,100 votes, a net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.”
Riding on the strength of those statistically improbable late-night “dumps” of ballots, the Leftwing media quickly “called” the election over, Pratt’s outsider candidacy done, and the race for Mayor now a contest between two Far-Left Democrat Communists.
One week after Election Day, California has counted only 83% of the votes, while Florida, and even India, are able to count and report their vote totals the night of the election.
The final polls leading up to the election showed the three candidates separated by a few points.
A survey conducted May 19-24 by the University of California Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times gave Bass just a one-point lead over Raman and a four-point lead over Pratt, which the Times referred to as “statistically insignificant” for the incumbent mayor, noted Candace Hathaway in a report for Blaze.
As our friend retired Col. John Mills noted in a post to his must-read substack, the results should be no surprise, the California voting system allowing curated ballots (where Election Officials can search for the voter and make sure they really did not mean to drop off a ballot with no vote marked and other craziness) ensures the machine can generate as many votes as they need to ensure victory.
This is what happened in November 2024 where five to eight House seats were lost by Republicans as the curating went on.
The curating always inflates the count of the Blue candidate while the non-Blue candidate vote count remains static, concluded Col. Mills.
"They are dropping fast because it's a rigged election," President Trump remarked over the weekend, referring to the Republican candidates losing ground as mail-in ballots were counted. "Four days and they aren't even close to coming up with [the final vote totals]. You know why they are doing that? Because they are cheating on the election?" he concluded.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and a Trump appointee, said Friday his office had opened "multiple election fraud investigations" related to California's elections and sent a prosecutor to the county's vote-counting center.
The vote-counting in the closely watched race for Governor of California is proceeding along similar lines, as of June 5, only 6 million gubernatorial primary ballots had been counted, and an estimated 3 million remained to be processed. As in the Mayoral race, Far-Left billionaire Tom Steyer, who ended Election Night in third place, is slowly creeping up on conservative outsider Steve Hilton, who was a strong second to establishment Democrat hack, and Biden-era Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra when the polls closed on Election Night.
