Never underestimate the willingness of the legacy media to rationalize what looks to many Americans like outright electoral manipulation when it benefits the left.
On election night in Los Angeles, conservative mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt appeared firmly positioned for a runoff spot, only to see his standing erode as late-arriving ballots mysteriously transformed the race. According to Gateway Pundit, Pratt was comfortably in second place on Tuesday evening, buoyed by early mail-in ballots that arrived before Election Day and then strengthened by in-person votes that expanded his lead by more than 12,000. With roughly half of the expected vote counted early Wednesday morning, Karen Bass held about 3637 percent, while Pratt posted a robust 29.2 percent, leaving progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman trailing in third with 21.4 percent.
Yet in Californias increasingly unrecognizable election system, Election Day has effectively morphed into Election month, a process that routinely seems to favor Democrats once all the ballots discovered AFTER Election Day are tallied. In one particularly eyebrow-raising ballot drop this week, Pratt did not receive a single vote, while the votes all went to the two far left Marxists he is running against! In that same batch, incumbent Karen Bass added more than twelve thousand votes to her total, Nithya Raman added nearly ten thousand votes to her total, but Spencer Pratt added none at all. Other candidates, notably, continued to gain votes in that tranche, a pattern critics argue is statistically impossible.
Predictably, the establishment press rushed to provide cover. Leave it to the Los Angeles Times to step in and defend what many see as election corruption by branding the anomaly a mere technical hiccup. Journalist Kevin Rector insisted it was simply the result of a lag in an automated collection of the data in which there was one data collection that captured votes in a single batch of votes for Bass and Raman, and then about 1 minute later, the collection of the rest of that same batch of votes. He added, Folks I spoke to also said there is no fraud. But again, there was no batch of votes without any Pratt votes. There was sort of a 1-minute variation between the upload of Bass and Raman votes and Pratt votes on some media websites.
Rector further asserted that Officials and others who have reviewed the data say that is not any proof of fraud. There was no fraud. For many conservatives, however, such assurances ring hollow after years of opaque counting practices, extended deadlines, and ballot dumps that almost invariably break for Democrats. First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli, who revealed on Friday that his office is conducting multiple election fraud investigations with the FBI, has now opened a new channel for whistleblowers. Email tips to: [email protected], he wrote, signaling that despite media spin, federal authorities are at least willing to hear from citizens who no longer trust a system that repeatedly defies common sense and statistical norms.
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