In perhaps the most damning act of #Resistance yet, Gavin Newsom\u2019s California is refusing to even check if a few thousand specific registered voters are in fact noncitizens.<\/p>\n
Washington sent Sacramento a list of 20,000 suspected violations to check out; Newsom & Co. responded: Pound sand \u2014 so the feds are taking California to court<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gov. Newsom and other Democrats are screaming that Trump is trying to rig<\/a> the midterm elections, or maybe to set up another claim of \u201cfraud\u201d if he loses \u2014 but it sure looks like they fear what they might find if they look under the hood here.<\/p>\n It\u2019d be easy for Sacramento to investigate: Just access the list of noncitizens the Justice Department sent over (in a password-protected thumb drive) and see if California, through county registrars, sent them ballots.<\/p>\n They could look, and prove the Trumpies are way off-base, or maybe find a few cases where mistakes were made \u2014 but surely not enough to impact any elections, right?<\/p>\n Right?<\/p>\n So why do California Democrats refuse?<\/p>\n Maybe Newsom simply figures he can get more cheap mileage from scaring voters about Trump . . . or maybe he\u2019s scared of what he\u2019d find.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has tried for years to get California to provide its voter rolls so the feds can help clean them up; Newsom keeps telling them to talk to the hand.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Hmm: Sacramento was insisting<\/a> Cali had next to no welfare fraud before Team Trump started pointing to blatant evidence<\/a> of robbery in the billions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yes, the Constitution\u2019s clear: States run elections . . . but the Constitution also obliges the feds to protect civil rights and otherwise ensure proper execution of the laws.<\/p>\n The consequences of a faulty system go far beyond one state \u2014 as Newsom & Co. keep reminding us, the midterms are about the nation as a whole: That was his excuse for the recent, massive gerrymander.<\/p>\n So if a badly flawed California voting system helps hand the House to Democrats, we all must live with the consequences.<\/p>\n Is that why Newsom & Co. refuse to even check for flaws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In perhaps the most damning act of #Resistance yet, Gavin Newsom\u2019s California is refusing to even check if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,12161,457,131,133,132,975,26296],"class_list":["post-499431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-editorial","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-opinion","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}