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What Does it Mean to Vote in Person?

July 6, 2026

“I vote in person.” I want to make sure my vote counts!

We often hear variations of that statement from dedicated patriots who believe voting in person is the safest way to vote. Over 15 years of research and documentation have solidified EIPCa’s long-time belief in the validity of that statement.

But we also find there is often a misunderstanding about what voting in person really is.

Sealing your ballot in the return envelope and dropping it in the mail is NOT voting in person.

Sealing your ballot in the return envelope and dropping it in a community drop box is NOT voting in person.

Sealing your ballot in the return envelope and giving it to a family member, friend or ballot harvester is NOT voting in person.

Sealing your ballot in the return envelope and dropping it into the container designated for that purpose at a polling location is NOT voting in person.

Sealing your ballot in the return envelope and dropping it off at the County Elections Office is NOT voting in person.

Sealing your ballot in the return envelope and putting it directly into the hands of the County Clerk or Registrar of Voters is NOT voting in person.

To vote in person is to submit a ballot that is

NOT enclosed in an envelope.

It’s that simple.

Those who choose to vote in person do so to fulfill certain goals:

1. Expedited counting. Many who vote in person say they want to be sure their “vote is counted today.” A vote cast without an envelope at a polling location is counted that very day, or early the following morning if cast before Election Day.

2. Maintaining voter privacy and ballot secrecy. An in-person ballot is anonymous and cannot be tracked back to who cast it.

3. Avoiding errors in ballot processing. An in-person ballot avoids the delay and potential for error or intentional manipulation inherent in the processing of envelope ballots.

4. Maintaining chain of custody. By law, an in-person ballot goes from the voter’s hands to a secure ballot container. At the end of the day, it is moved by at least two people to a smaller transport container which is tamper-evident sealed. That container is taken by TWO trained individuals to the counting center or to a collection point, where it is transferred with signed chain of custody to the TWO or more trained individuals who will take it to the counting center.

Once at the counting center, it will be unsealed and its contents will be moved “in front of God and everybody” to the tabulation room and tabulated. The chain of custody is never broken.

Achieving these goals is not possible

when the ballot is in an envelope.

1. Expedited counting. Ballot envelopes must be sorted and scanned. Then they are signature verified, a highly subjective process which is so diluted by California’s weak standards as to be basically useless, but nonetheless time consuming.

Depending on when ballots are mailed or dropped off, processing delays range from 24 hours to several weeks.

2. Maintaining voter privacy and ballot secrecy. The return envelope has the voter’s name and address clearly printed, as well as the voter’s signature, which in most counties is not obscured under the flap but clearly visible and open to mischief as it passes through the hands of postal workers and drop-box transporters.

The ballot only becomes “secret” after it is removed from the envelope after the signature verification process.

During signature verification, the verifiers have access to the voter’s entire record, including party affiliation.

While they are not supposed to allow partisanship to influence their decisions, they are only human, and even subconsciously may be influenced by that knowledge.

3. Avoiding errors in ballot processing. Besides being vulnerable to the inherent inaccuracies in signature verification, ballots are subject to damage as the envelopes are mechanically sliced open and extracted from the envelope. Many are caught in the slicer and must be pieced together and re-made (duplicated) before tabulation, another process that could produce error or intentional manipulation, or even make some portions of the ballot indecipherable.

All extracted ballots are examined for damage (stains, smudges, tears, extraneous writing, water spots, etc.), and sent to be re-made if any are detected.

4. Maintaining chain of custody. Envelopes and the ballots they contain lose chain of custody the moment they enter the USPS system.

They pass through many unsupervised hands during the USPS processing, are transported to and from the voter’s mailbox by only ONE, unsupervised carrier, and removed from USPS mailboxes by ONE, unsupervised worker.

Every election, media reports abound of batches of ballots found dumped in ditches or under bushes by a worker wanting to finish rounds early or just create mischief.

Envelopes returned by community drop box sit in that box (many remote and unsurveilled) for up to 96 hours by law, vulnerable to vandalism, accident or the forces of nature.

Every election since the implementation of drop-box use, there have been media reports of burned or substance-damaged ballots inside those boxes.

As the boxes are emptied, the ballots can be exposed to careless handling, which may misplace, “fold, spindle or mutilate” envelopes and their contents. They are also vulnerable, especially during inclement weather, to water damage.

All of these consequences condemn the ballots to the remake process, which creates further delay in counting and subjects ballots to potential error or malfeasance.

Regardless of how you submit your ballot (mail, drop box, polling location, elections office, third person), if it is in an envelope, it is NOT an in-person vote!

It…

will NOT be expeditiously counted,
is NOT a secret ballot,
IS subject to mishandling and abuse, and
does NOT have chain of custody.

The only exception is a ballot submitted by a person who registers to vote and votes simultaneously.

This process is called Conditional Voter (same day) Registration, and while the ballots are submitted in an envelope, the only processing required is the entering of the voter’s information into the county and state database.

The ballot’s only vulnerability is during slicing/extraction, or if the voter somehow damages the ballot while marking it.

The decision to vote in person in California or use the envelope option is entirely the voter’s, and there are pros and cons to each method of voting.

EIPCa encourages voters to consider them all, and choose the method that gives them the most comfort and satisfaction.

Currently, for many reasons--mostly nefarious (see the EIPCa article coming soon) -- the majority of Californians vote by mail. Because that is a fact, the participation of citizen observers is critical. Please see EIPCa’s article series on how and why to become a citizen observer, and do your part in the Fall to protect the integrity of the process.

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Federal Investigation Comes to California’s Election Process:

Will Anything Result From All the Hoopla?

June 23, 2026

Discussing all of the faults, weaknesses and corruption in California’s electoral process has become a national pastime these days.

Never mind that EIPCa has been shouting the same message from the hilltops for 15 years. Because of the clear and indefensible electoral situation surrounding Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt, Californians and the rest of the country are FINALLY listening, and experiencing the Truth in real time.

Patriots and election integrity enthusiasts are energized by the hope that FINALLY something will be done to clean up and legitimize California’s election process.

The brutal reality may be something quite different.

But let’s start with the good news.

It is the constitutional duty of the federal government to ensure that the election of federal representatives (Congress members, Senators, President/Vice President) is conducted following constitutional and federal law mandates.

In other words, if it is in the Constitution or federal law, it is the obligation of the executive branch of government to execute the mandate.

Unenforced laws are not laws at all.

That begins with the voter rolls. NO, they are not the private property of the individual states, and no state has a constitutional or federal legal leg to stand on when refusing to allow federal access to them.

That is because the constitution demands that only U.S. citizens be allowed to vote, and that each citizen vote once and once only. The federal government cannot fulfill its duty to ensure adherence to that mandate without full and consistent review of state voter rolls.

California and other states show a complete lack of understanding

of what “United States” signifies or how the union came to be.

The framers of the Constitution were careful to recognize each state as a largely autonomous entity with great independent authority over its own affairs.

However, no state has the authority to contradict constitutional and federal dictates.

The Founders desperately desired autonomy for their states rather than a single, centralized government that would swallow them all up and condemn the smaller states to the tyranny of the larger, but they also recognized that no state, large or small, could exist completely independent from the others.

Thus, they created America’s unique system of government, wherein each state retains all possible independence while both bowing to and benefitting from the union of the whole.

We are 50 separate states, but UNITED for very practical reasons.

States benefit from belonging to the union. The federal system protects all states equally from foreign aggression, ensures smooth commerce among all states, administers civil rights to all citizens equally in every state, funds much within each state that is of benefit to the country as a whole, and provides assistance beyond what a state can do for itself in the form of disaster relief, etc.

For that trade-off, states have an obligation to abide by the Supremacy Clause, and recognize that for constitutional and civil rights issues (among others) the federal government’s authority is supreme.

California wants to eat its cake and have it too. It rebels against the federal government like a petulant and disobedient child, but is quick to request, beg, demand federal assistance when it gets itself into trouble.

No state can have it both ways, as California and other states have now begun to learn through the withholding of federal monies that have naively been funding gigantic, now-outed fraud schemes.

EIPCa alleges that California’s election process is

one of the biggest fraud schemes going.

Federal officials are currently showing an imposing presence in Los Angeles County as California’s seemingly endless vote count of the 2026 Primary Election continues and vote counts flip improbably and at times impossibly (Pratt v Raman).

California’s suspect laws, such as universal mailing of ballots guided by egregiously unmaintained voter rolls, late ballot acceptance, and unreconciled voter-to-vote counts are under the federal microscope.

If justice is real this time, and the federal agencies actually do their job,

things will go badly for California’s government,

and will be liberating for California’s beleaguered citizenry.

The sprawling county of Los Angeles encompasses one-third or more of California’s registered individuals, and has been the “tail that wags the dog” for decades!

It is generally alleged to be

one of the most corrupt counties in the nation.

It is the logical place to start, and any “corrections” that may result will be equally applied to the smaller counties, some potentially equally off the rails.

Now for the brutal reality.

Already we are hearing pundits and even federal mouthpieces wave the white flag, declare that all is definitely not well in California, and then retreat under the banner of dismissal that reads: “But it’s legal in California.”

They are right - California has “legalized” an electoral fraud machine. To see how it was built law by law, refer to EIPCa’s document, the Golden State Agenda.

But if the situation is left there, with a shoulder shrug, a sigh and an “Oh, well, what can we do?” Californians will once again be disheartened, condemned to the despotism of the ruling class and denied the “blessings of liberty” by the continuance of an oppressive, one-sided and corrupt oligarchy they cannot vote themselves out of.

To the pundits, and more importantly to the investigators, we say:

California has proclaimed “legal” what inherently cannot, by the Constitution and federal law BE legal, and those laws must be challenged, neutralized and exchanged for what is truly legal and due to every citizen of the United States, even Californians.

Do NOT turn your back on your duty now. Use your Constitutional authority to give Californians back their birthright as Americans - the right to live in a Republic.

Make this investigation COUNT, or the judgement of history will be unkind.

This is an existential moment,

not just for California but for the country.

To the citizens of the other 49 states, we say:

BEWARE.

Examine closely what has happened in California and DO NOT allow the same thing to happen to you by allowing the adoption of unconstitutional election laws used to implement California’s “easy to manipulate” election system.

Some of you are already far down the same road! Making a U-turn now will avoid much future heartache.

Pull those weeds of unconstitutional election laws now, before they become entrenched and you become transformed into another “California”.

To the authorities within the other 49 states, we say:

Do not condone California’s rebellion and despotism, nor its cruel removal of freedom of choice from its citizens.

Refuse to use the hard-earned tax dollars of your citizens to bail California out of troubles of their own making.

Do not seat California representatives who were “selected” by a corrupt process rather than elected by the People through a fair, honest, transparent and constitutional process.

Do not acknowledge California’s Electoral College votes until its process is renewed and the true will of the California citizens is reflected in its elections.

Hold other, similarly despotic state governments that have adopted the California Model to the same standards.

Demand that all 50 states once again recalibrate to the proper balance between 10^th Amendment autonomy and Constitutional supremacy.

Only then will the Republic survive to celebrate another 250 years

as the most free, prosperous and glorious nation the world

has ever known, or will ever know.

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