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June 13 Legislative Alert
To paraphrase Thomas Paine, Government is an evil, but a necessary one.
Since the U.S. Constitution declares that We the People ARE the government, that makes the need to commit a certain amount of effort the Keep the Republic, though at times intrusive and stressful, absolutely NECESSARY.
EIPCa attempts to make it as easy for you as possible, but a certain amount of email, letter and/or post card writing, as well as phoning is the only way to maintain a modicum of control over those elected to carry out your will.
Your California legislators need to hear from you.
As the 2023-2024 legislative session continues into its second half, many bills are on the verge of being passed, and others of being rejected.
Don’t let either happen without expressing your opinion! Your email or phone call to your own legislator speaks louder than any EIPCa spokesperson at a committee meeting.
Below is some information to help guide you in making your opinions known:
Election bills officially supported or opposed by EIPCa:
AB 544 (Bryan), to be heard June 18 in the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments. Read EIPCa’s opposition letter.
AB 2050 (Wendy Carrillo), to be heard June 18 in the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments and on July 2 in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Read EIPCa’s opposition letter.
AB 2050 is virtually identical to AB 1206 which was killed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee in the first legislative session. For further arguments in opposition to AB 2050, read AB 1206 opposition letter dated 3/20/2023 and AB 1206 opposition letter dated 4/5/2023.
AB 2050 recently passed the Assembly floor vote with ALL Democrats voting yes, ONE Republican voting NO and ALL the rest of the Republicans choosing not to vote.
This clear partisanship coupled with dereliction of duty is NOT what these people were elected to display. Be sure they get your guidance in the future.
This bill greatly enhances the probability that more ineligible registrants will be added to the California voter rolls, including non-citizens (legal and illegal), whose citizenship status will be undetectable.
EIPCa urges you to vehemently oppose it at all levels as it goes through the Senate Committee and floor vote process.
EIPCa Legislative Alert AB 544
Assembly Bill (AB) 544 will be heard in the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee on June 4.
This is a complicated bill, basically mandating a pilot program offering grants to three counties to design and implement a program to improve voter participation in jail facilities.
The original version of this bill would have mandated these programs in all counties, which apparently was seen as a bit ambitious all at once. However, the goal is clearly to expand this program to all “jail facilities” in the state, meaning “city jails, county jails, or any other government facility that houses incarcerated persons.”
Polling Locations are defined in the bill as “a polling place, vote center or other means at the jail that permits an eligible incarcerated person” to do any of the activities offered at polling locations or vote centers.
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California and the Laws that Divide 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
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”.
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.
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When the Founders crafted the U.S. Constitution, they carefully designed our government to be a Constitutional Representative Republic.
They specifically and assiduously avoided creating a Democracy, wherein 51% of the people can tell the other 49% to sit down and shut up.
In a Republic, the individual reigns supreme.
In a Republic, everyone’s rights are protected from the tyranny of the majority. People in large states and small states, people of minority status—whether physical or ideological - cannot be squashed, minimized or marginalized just because people in larger states or with majority status want to bully them.
In a Republic, all levels of government serve by the consent of the People, expressed through their vote. The question is, who are the People?
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Santa Clarita, California (June 22, 2021)Click here to download copy of press release-- California’s November 3, 2020 election was marred by significant voting and registration irregularities, according to Election Integrity Project® California, Inc. (EIPCa). The non-partisan organization analyzed the state’s official voter list of February 9, 2021 and reported its findings to California’s Secretary of State Shirley Weber on June 17, 2021. This followed EIPCa reports of 2020 cross-state voting on April 30 and May 18, 2021 that the Secretary has ignored. EIPCa’s June report cites California’s election code that requires officials to provide timely answers to citizens’ questions.
EIPCa seeks answers to the following questions, on behalf of California voters:
| VoteCal Database Date | # Counties with Registrations Exceeding # Eligible Citizens | Total Ineligible Registrations |
| March 2020 | 11 | 1,063,957 |
| February 2021 | 23 | 1,834,789 (+72% since 3/20) |
“Many in the nation are questioning the validity of the 2020 general election in their states”, said EIPCa President Linda Paine. “Mass irregularities in California’s registration and voting numbers continue to erode voter confidence here and we are hopeful Secretary Weber will immediately address our questions.”
