irregularities and are pre-emptively blocking challenges to questionable election results.

But time will tell.

to steal elections without any fuss or bother by "the people".

From the summary it looks like a decent bill.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=2a2f241aedb95a388fa49d0780b2?bill_id=201320140AB2369

"Existing law establishes procedures by which a voter may request a recount of the votes cast in an election following completion of the official canvass. Under existing law, the voter seeking the recount is required, before the recount is commenced and at the beginning of each subsequent day, to deposit with the elections official the amount of money required by the elections official to cover the cost of the recount for that day.
This bill would modify and apply these provisions to the candidate-controlled campaign committee or primarily formed committee, as defined, that is represented by the voter filing the request to seek a recount. The bill would also specify that the money deposited with the elections official be from the voter’s own personal funds, or from the funds of the candidate-controlled campaign committee of the candidate on whose behalf the recount is being requested, or funds of a primarily formed committee."

What's "decent" about it?!

All it does, as I explain in my article, is make citizen oversight of elections (via "recounts&quot more difficult, by making sure that a voter must pay for it out of their "own personal funds".

Under current CA law, any voter can request a "recount" and could pay for it themselves or raise the money to pay for it from wherever.

Under this bill, they'd have to be wealthy enough to afford it on their own for some (unnecessary) reason.

You think only rich people should be entitled to oversee election results??? What is "decent" about that???

First, there should be an automatic recount that is triggered when elections are close. It should also include the provision that the cost is covered by the government.

Second, only a registered voter within the district covered by the specific election could request a recount that does not involve a trigger recount. A voter could not request a recount for an election in a district they do not have the ability to vote for the candidate involved.

Third, a committee should be formed that would determine the cost to perform a recount and applied to all voting districts based on type of equipment used.

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