Is it possible for a state to have more registered voters than citizens old enough to vote? Is it possible for a county to have more registered voters than it has citizens old enough to vote? If you answered “No” to either of these questions, “wake up, and welcome to reality.”
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the state of California has many more registered voters than it has citizens old enough to vote, and Los Angeles County, with more than 10 million residents, has a registered voter count of 112% that of its citizens old enough to vote. These numbers are from an article in the Washington Free Beacon that was reporting on a successful suit brought by Judicial Watch against both the state of California and Los Angeles County. As a result of this suit California has to purge one-and-a-half million voters from its rolls.
How can there be so many more registered voters than actual citizens living in a county or a state? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? If you are an optimist the astronomical number of potential phantom voters in California and in Los Angeles County is merely due oversight, followed by more oversight, followed by more . . . you get the idea. Oversight implies that whatever has occurred is just an innocent mistake, or in the case of the state of California about one-and-a-half million innocent mistakes! If you believe this whole bugaboo is just a lot to do about nothing, then you are living in a Democratic dream world, as they would typically nonchalantly say, “People move and people die . . . how can anyone keep track?”
If you are a pessimist these phantom potential voters, whether they have moved or died, have been purposely not deleted from the voting rolls. An oversight? . . . “No!” Skullduggery? . . . At least, and more likely an attempt by some, who feel that they have the Ocasio-Cortez-like “moral high-ground,” in order to insure that the best Democratic candidate wins. Here in California, no one at the polling place ever says, “I thought you moved to Arizona,” or “Aren’t you dead?” One does not have to show any form of I.D. to vote in California. If Mr./Ms. X is on the voting roll, all one has to do is to identify him/herself as Mr./Mrs. X, and he/she is handed a ballot. In fact individuals who volunteer to work at polling places in California on Election Day cannot work in their own neighborhood polling place, and thus could never ask, “Aren’t you dead?”, because they would never know about a voter at that particular polling place who has died as they are not in their own neighborhood.
A final piece of irony: In order to get or renew a library card in San Diego, an individual must bring a picture I.D. and proof of residency, like an unopened phone bill. I guess that the city library is more concerned about dead people taking out books than California is concerned about dead people voting!
(You’ll notice that I did not mention the problem of illegals voting. This was not an oversight as I plan to address this issue sometime in the near future.)