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California and the Laws that Divide
Part 10 - Foreign Influence
In any election for federal office, the U.S. Constitution and U.S. federal law grant the right to vote only to U.S. citizens (natural born and naturalized).
In any election for State office, the California Constitution gives the right to vote only to U.S. citizens who are residents of the state of California.
However, laws on paper are useless
if there is no will or method to enforce them.
- No proof of citizenship is required to register to vote in California.
- The California Secretary of State, who is ultimately responsible for verifying voter eligibility, lacks the will and resources to reliably carry out that verification.
- No proof of citizenship is required to cast a vote in California.
The influx of so many undocumented individuals surging across our national borders in the last three and a half years has rightfully heightened Americans’ awareness of the potential for foreign interference in our elections.
The potential for foreign influence is nothing new in California.
In 2013, California passed AB 817, which authorized non-citizens to serve as poll workers. This unthinkable action blurred the line between citizen and non-citizen privileges and opened the road to uncontrolled foreign influence in California elections.
EIPCa [actually Election Integrity Project (EIP) at the time (not to be confused with Election Integrity Partnership)] fought that bill with a mighty effort. EIP believed, and still believes, that no foreign-born individuals should have hands-on involvement in California’s election process until they have formally and officially:
- Relinquished allegiance to their native country,
- Relinquished allegiance to their foreign leaders,
- Sworn sole allegiance to the United States of America.
In other words, until foreign individuals have become naturalized citizens and official members of the American family, it is a potential existential threat to the state and country for them to participate by voting or processing voters or ballots in any way.
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EIP’s opposition effort included the participation of 6,000 citizens of California and other states who signed petitions asking Governor Jerry Brown to withhold his signature on AB 817.
On a date well before the deadline for the governor’s signature, EIP held a rally at the capitol to formally present the governor with the signed petitions.
EIP alerted the governor to our intentions and respectfully asked him to refrain from signing the bill until we could make our delivery.
To prove we actually had the signatures, EIP’s CEO spent untold hours and her own money to fax every one of the signed petitions to the governor’s office ahead of time. The rally was well attended and was a great success for citizen self-governance.
However, in an act of complete defiance and disrespect for a huge number of constituents, the governor signed AB 817 into law the day before the rally.
Aside from the gravity of EIP’s philosophical objections, AB 817 looks cautious and restrictive--on paper.
The non-citizen poll worker has to be
- lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the U.S.
- otherwise, eligible to register to vote except for lack of U.S. citizenship.
- fluent and literate in English, as required of every poll worker.
- restricted from being the Lead Official at the polls
- restricted from being used to tally votes.
But like so many California laws,
there is no mechanism for enforcement.
No one is allowed to ask or question the citizenship of a worker beyond an on-your-honor question on the application, so the members and Lead Official of a Precinct Board have no way of knowing who may or may not be assigned to certain duties. Moreover, they are not allowed to ask.
There is never any research done to validate applicants’ written assertions that they meet the qualifications.
For that matter, no official check is ever done regarding the English fluency requirement, and applicants may not qualify on that basis whether they are citizens or not.
EIPCa Observers often encounter poll workers
unable to assist English-speaking voters.
To our knowledge, no other country in the world allows non-citizens to vote or hold office, or accommodates hundreds of languages in their governmental processes.
To do so surrenders national sovereignty.
Some countries do not even have a naturalization process, nor accept the idea of dual citizenship. In those countries, citizens are citizens by birth only. In order to become a naturalized citizen in a different country, they must renounce citizenship in their birth country.
While this may seem extreme and xenophobic, the laudable and necessary goal is a stable and unified culture that preserves its ideals, identity, language and world view.
America was once described as a “melting pot” because people who immigrated to America arrived with the intention of becoming Americans. Their diverse cultures merged together with the core principles and ideals of America as glue that holds us together as ONE people united as ONE nation.
However, the introduction of foreign individuals can become a slippery slope eliminating the core thread of American culture if it happens too rapidly and assimilation does not occur. This is why the American immigration and naturalization process is slow, lengthy and cautious, at least until recently.
Any country without a common world view and governmental philosophy among its residents will soon cease to be a country with an identity.
THEREFORE, citizenship must have a meaning.
The sole and unabridged right to vote must be reserved only for citizens.
Today more than ever before, Americans are asking how to stop the recent tidal wave of illegal immigrants from becoming a tsunami of voters who may forever change the identity of this country.
As mentioned in EIPCa’s recent Alert, the United Sovereign Americans strategy for voter roll protection is a highly promising resolution to that issue.
Until EIPCa’s federal lawsuit pulls the rug out from under 25 years of unconstitutional election laws foisted upon the citizens of California, we must unite to demand enforcement of the laws and regulations that prevent foreign involvement and influence in our governmental processes.
All who are able are encouraged to use EIPCa’s Citizen Observer materials to prepare to participate in legal, meaningful citizen oversight of the election process to preserve every citizen’s right to self-govern.
You can find these easy-to-understand materials
on our website by clicking on the following boxes or links following.
  
https://www.eip-ca.com/articles/vote_safe_series.html
https://www.eip-ca.com/citizen_obs.html
https://www.eip-ca.com/articles/calif_laws_divide.html
And please continue to support EIPCa as the lawsuit progresses.
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California and the Laws that Divide
Part 9 – Consent of the Governed
In the American Constitutional Representative Republic, those given the inestimable honor of being elected to office have the absolute duty to rule by the “consent of the governed.”
That “consent” is generally provided at the ballot box. There is nothing more sacred to people who wish to remain free than to be able to make their wishes known through elections that are fair, honest, transparent and valid.
If the election process cannot be described by the previous adjectives, citizens may be marking ballots, but they are not truly voting.
The right to vote is to have one’s voice heard equally among all qualified citizens who vote, which means not only marking a ballot but having that ballot accurately counted.
Which begs the question: Is it by the consent of the governed that California legislators and governors have adopted policies by which California now ranks as the
- 45th worst state for violent crime rate
- 42nd worst state for property crime rate
- 45th worst state for hospital quality
- 46th worst state for infrastructure issues
- 50th worst state for tax burden?
It is unconscionable to believe that the people of California have in any way consented to the type of governmental decisions that have produced such abysmal results.
Clearly, California is NOT governed by the consent of “We the People”.
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Legislators over the last 25 years, with the support of the governors’ signatures, have slowly eroded the electoral process in the state so that elections are manipulatable and out of the control of the people. Such a condition allows “elected” officials to act as they wish, without consequence, to solidify their own power and supremacy.
And what about those legislators, few as they may be, who still occasionally attempt to represent their constituents honorably and faithfully?
Last week, Assembly majority leaders cut off the microphones of fellow Assembly members when they made a simple motion on the Assembly floor to force a vote on a bill that would allow state law enforcement to cooperate with border patrol to deport any illegal immigrants who are found guilty as child predators.
The majority of Californians would never consent to that act of incivility, nor to the philosophy being protected by the action.
Following that action, the Assembly Speaker announced complete authority to determine which members of the opposing party would be assigned to which committees and then removed the Member who made the motion on the child predator bill from the Judiciary Committee as a punishment!
Because of years of reckless spending by those completely ignoring the will of the people, California is now in dire financial straits.
Their plan to extricate the state from its situation includes
- Raising taxes on businesses by $18 billion
- Spending $5 billion on FREE healthcare for illegal immigrants
- Cutting $250 million for preschoolers with disabilities to fund electric school busses
- Removing $500 million from our kids’ schools
- Funding the multi-billion-dollar High-Speed Rail disaster
- Raising the gas tax to reach almost $2 extra per gallon of gas
The California Public Utilities Commission just approved a new flat charge of $24.15 per month in addition to the usage rate on every electricity bill for SDG&E, PG&E, and SCE customers.
Surely this is not the will of the financially beleaguered Californians
and certainly nothing they consented to.
Recently Californians have qualified an initiative for the November ballot, daring to use the process of direct democracy to reign in a portion of this legislative tyranny. The California leaders have responded by designing a 2-pronged plan to foil the will of the people.
- First, they solicited the courts to remove the legally-qualified initiative from the ballot.
- In case that attempt fails, they have proposed several bills with desirable contents, each containing the provision that if the people’s initiative passes, the bills and their provisions will immediately sunset.
In other words, the legislature will punish the people for expressing their will and for the very act of self-governance.
Nothing about the current situation in California
fits the definition of “Republic.”
This is why Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) continues to pursue its federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the laws that have kept the people’s will from dominating at the ballot box.
Thomas Paine aptly reminded the Founders, and all of us - their political posterity - that “the right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in 1964, “No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.”
EIPCa is dedicated to stopping and reversing the legislative undermining of that precious right in California.
Join us in fighting these California laws that
- divide us from the Constitution,
- divide us from our rights,
- divide us from common sense,
- divide us from our money,
- and divide us from each other.
Please continue to support EIPCa as the lawsuit progresses.
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