Peloni: A democratic nation which can not, or will not, secure its election process, should not be understood to be democratic to the degree to which election results can be overturned. The will of the people is arguably the most crucial aspect of the liberties provided to the people of the West, and yet the effort to establish a reliable measure of this treasured right seems to repeatedly run afoul of those in power who might have to face the consequences of securing this right.
By Pamela Geller |
Photo by Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States – Vote Here sign in Minneapolis, Minnesota., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
President Trump is railing against California’s rigged election system against Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton.
“It’s FOUR DAYS and they STILL aren’t even CLOSE to telling you who won. You know why?
Because they’re RIGGING the election, that’s why. Four days!”
“It’s a crooked state. We have crooked THIRD WORLD elections in a lot of our states and we should pass our SAVE AMERICA ACT!”
Spencer Pratt RECEIVED 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.
0/24,000
A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.
Impossible.
California no longer even hides it.
If Raman takes second and Pratt does not qualify for the general election, after days upon days of thinking he would, it will be the political equivalent of watching the Palisades burn again. If you can’t hold leaders accountable for their failures, then democracy does not exist. (California Post)
Doors need to be kicked in.
Look:
Defies logic:
Prospects have dimmed for Spencer Pratt, Los Angeles
By Jon Fleischman, NY Post, June 5, 2026:
Since Election Day on Tuesday, Los Angeles County has begun the long, slow process of counting late-arriving and provisional ballots.
And the race for second place in the mayor’s contest is moving in a direction that should concern Spencer Pratt supporters, and anyone who thinks Los Angeles needs to move toward a more centrist, common-sense course.
Friday afternoon’s update added roughly 140,000 ballots countywide, with about 42.7% from within the city of Los Angeles.
Mayor Karen Bass remains firmly in first place with 34.98% of the vote. The real drama is the battle for the second runoff spot between Pratt and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.
Going into this update, my estimate was that Raman needed to outperform Pratt by roughly 11 percentage points in the remaining vote to have a realistic chance of catching him.
Instead, she did much better than that.
Raman gained 23,115 votes in Friday’s update, compared to 10,711 for Pratt and 20,419 for Bass. In a single ballot drop, Raman netted 12,404 votes on Pratt.
Put another way, she received more than twice as many votes as Pratt in this batch.
The updated totals now stand at 215,868 votes for Bass, 174,260 for Pratt, and 153,588 for Raman.
Pratt still holds second place, but his lead over Raman has been cut to just 20,672 votes.
With observers estimating that 550,000 to 600,000 ballots may still remain countywide, there are likely well over 200,000 mayoral votes left to count.
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The remaining vote appears to be behaving as many California election veterans expected. Late-counted ballots have historically tended to be younger, more urban, and more progressive than the Election Night vote.
Earlier in the week Pratt appeared to have a relatively comfortable path to the runoff.
Today, that path looks considerably narrower.
The ongoing count also highlights a problem with California’s election system.
Most voters expect elections to be resolved in a straightforward way: The polls close, the ballots are counted, and winners are declared.
Instead, Californians are left watching races change for days or weeks as late ballots trickle in.
To be clear, there is no evidence of fraud in the Los Angeles mayor’s race.
But when results shift dramatically after Election Night, it undermines confidence.
If Pratt ultimately falls short after leading for much of the week, this process will add insult to injury for his supporters.
And if Pratt does not make the runoff, it will say a great deal about where Los Angeles is headed.
His campaign has focused on quality of life, public safety, homelessness, and basic competence at City Hall.
In the governor’s race, Xavier Becerra appears all but certain to advance to the November runoff and has now barely moved ahead of Steve Hilton for first place.
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