State Republicans are installing dozens of unofficial ballot boxes in at least three California counties. Secretary of State Alex Padilla — a Democrat — tells NBC News that he has security concerns about what he calls “fake” boxes, but Republicans say the boxes are legal.
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Controversy In California Over Republican-Installed Unofficial Ballot Boxes | NBC Nightly News
Illegal box means legal destruction!!!!!
It goes like this, if your proud to be an American you will vote for Trump. If your ashamed to be an American you support Biden. Wake up America!!!
If you’re a proud American, you’ll celebrate whenTrump is dragged out of the Weird House and hung up by his thumbs. Wake up America!! Trump’s killing you, and he doesn’t care, because HE’s got the happy pills.
How do you know which ones are official and ones that are not? That is the problem
Look for the…’Made in Russia’ …label. …Trump’ll try anything.
I’m single 😥😥😥😥😥
Why tho?
Why rock the boat…. Jesus christ
That’s unbelievable, Americans were afraid they would become a Venezuela… what about the GOP desire to transform the whole US becoming a Mississippi or Alabama? scary
Love you 💋💋😘😘❤️💯
Take it off all.arrest those people put it there..
Republicans and Democrats are full of it you can’t trust venom from a two-headed snake they paralyzed people on both sides of the aisle you can’t challenge it or spin it our country well their country is what they make it not us it’s been proven
Republican Cheaters!
However, if you were another party, your ballot may bever get to the elections office.
We need a conviction as quickly as possible so nobody can say
“alleged tampering.”
Meanwhile NBC did their due diligence After this aired and found out who it really was. 🤣😂
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With all this seeming historic evidence of being uncaring, the Democratic Party has the audacity to make the outrageous claim that it cares about minorities. Ignore what the Democrats say .Look at the evidence of what Democrats have done and continue to do to minorities—– as well as to the rest of America’s citizens — as they now embrace the failed agenda of Socialism
……what the?? So Republicans are collecting ballots now after they cried foul about mail in ballots?? OMFG the hypocrisy on the right remains undefeated
Wow I am wondering that you all have been /are watching the FAKE NEWS MEDIAS such as cnn, nbc, msnbc, abc..ect. all days???? WAKEUP PLEASE! without MR. TRUMP2020 WE ARE ALL DEAD UNDER THE CHINA’S HANDS ALREADY!
Vote in person! This is too important to vote by mail
Oh sure try to blame the republican party for something the Dems pushed for that’s funny
So unethical! They all need to be charged! WOW!
People Dems and Reps make sure your vote is counted. There is a way you can check if your ballot was received. Make sure your vote was not changed. I swear Republicans are getting bold next thing they will come to your house and make you give them their vote. Do ya think that trump is trying to start something here?
Democrats suppressing the vote….
The fraud is being committed by republicons.
Okay republicans in the comments, defend yourselves. I want to hear what Fox News has implanted in your heads concerning this particular issue.
GOP running scared, so they steal votes to destroy them. Trump truly fears becoming a Jimmy Carter… a one-term president. When he sees the handwriting on the wall he may lose the rest of his marbles. Hope the Secret Service and senior military are prepared for this.
Cheaters
I bet those pesky republicans did not consider this. every ballot they collect would be invalidated because the california law specifically requires the ballot to be signed over to another person for harvesting
Surprise video for you all to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4J9db3V8Ag&ab_channel=TheScoop. Please comment after watching the video. Times might have past but Joe is still the same old Joe. Would you allow such a person to be the next president of the United States?
Government Democrat go crash the f****** boxes that’s not right they try to stealing make a fraud
Republicans have NO integrity!!!
No one knows who set them up. Why do they go straight to the “Republican Party” all the time. That’s finger pointing. There is no evidence to suggest that. Who knows, it could have been the Democratic Party that did it.
They literally admitted to it
https://youtu.be/pWUs6bQlz98
THIS IS A CRIME!!! You can’t tell people “deposit your ballot here and that’s the same as turning it in” when those ballot-boxes are just, nothing. This is a crime!! This is election fraud!!
This is actually shocked me, didn’t think that was still possible. Don’t drop boxes have to be sanctioned by the people in charge of the election, not anyone who feels like it? Surely this is interference with an election and these people should be charged.
My shocked face🥴
talk grandayy life mccreamy thething
total fake news
Just get spray paint, ..And writte on it ”FAKE BALLOT BOX” How hard can that be?
America is a shithole this kind of stuff happen in a third world countries.
Looks like more of these idiots out of California took their brain from Trump they may want to give it back to Trump when they’re done with it! This is deliberately illegal in front of the American people right before our eyes and these idiots are going to go to jail or prison and join the rest of the other corrupt Republican party! How really stupid are these people that claim to be following the law out of California? They must have been taking a mind-ending drug from Trump’s cabinet to try to pull such a stunt on Californians! Welcome to jail or prison soon boys I hope it was worth it for you!
And one of them even took a picture of himself right in the middle of incriminating himself with thumbs up! How really stupid is this guy and the others who participated in this that you want to follow your fearful leader into jail in his footsteps? Just how really stupid are these guys? And what’s more how did they become elected Republicans? Did they take or recite them the person man woman camera TV test? Were they considered stable geniuses to try to pull off such a stunt? Prisoners are going to have fun with these clowns! Like a deranged version of a Ringling Brothers circus!
When we see these boxes we should destroy them.
Shame on you!!
Shame. Change the debate times.
This is surreal. Why aren’t they being arrested? Perhaps it’s technically legal for someone to deliver the votes of another person but they are aware that a person or organization is acting on their behalf and have requested that service. This is completely and obviously not that when they place boxes with the words official drop box. Take your ballot to the election office or vote in person and don’t let anyone prevent your vote from being counted.
LOL, at this rate you guys are going to need UN observers on the ground to have any hope of even the appearance of democratic elections.
Isn’t it funny that Trump and his dirty minions keep saying that the Democrats will cheat and fraudulently try to steal the election when it’s clear they are doing everything to suppress the vote? Breaking the law that won’t be prosecuted and will just get pardoned if they try to prosecute? Pretty much looks like without a doubt the conservatives are doing just that.
Republican Party leaders on Wednesday said they will not comply with an order” so much for the Law and Order loving people 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they also love the police because they go after the people they don’t like but they Hate the FBI for going after Clorox Donald criminal syndicate.
We all can see the hypocrisy you don’t believe nothing but yourselfs.
“Really Official Ballot Drop Box, We Promise!” will read the next one.
NBC: please make a newer end card. It feels so out of touch, like a grandpa talking about “this new fangled internet thing”
What is the controversy? Aren’t there laws against this? Start arresting people responsible for it and immediately inform the population what is happening and where is safe to deposit their ballots. Banana Republic?
U guys voting? Wow
Why republicans are even allowed to do this???? No one going to jail for this???🤦♀️
As I’ve been saying the last 2 years, if your system is rigged against you, there is no point to vote. You must defend your democracy by taking back your house.
#RemoveBox ASAP
And here in red Texas, the governor reduced the number of ballot drop-boxes to just one per county. It’s hardly bigger than a blue mailbox outside of post offices.
It’s not “controversial”, it’s fraudulent.
Yes, state law allows organizations to collect completed ballots, but only if the voter KNOWS who is doing it and how it is being forwarded to the voting station. Unofficial drop boxes that mislead voters into thinking they are official boxes, and which lack normal drop-box security and vote-submission protocols, are misleading at best and, in some cases, illegal.
Full disclosure of who collects the drop-box ballots, and proper security for the box, are lacking for these unofficial boxes.
Whoever is responsible for this should be publicly executed, voting is the most important thing in our country and for anyone to interfere with it should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
How about a “no knock” warrant on the Republican campaign HQ?
Cheating cheating cheating.
This is literally republican voter fraud
Insane… criminal. Put them behind bars!
Beautiful DRAMA
Mail in Voting for TRUMP …..LEGAL
Mail in Voting against TRUMP … ILLEGAL
Drop boxes for DEMOCRATS … ILLEGAL
FAKE Drop boxes …LEGAL
DO YOU SEE A PATTERN ? 😠🇺🇸
Brazen cheating?
Anymore, the Republican Party disgusts me. Their dirty tricks to stay in power are nauseating.
They will do anything Trump and GOP.The symbols of frauds.555
There is no standard for the Republicans, they break all the rules and violate all the ethical rules concerning our elections. It’s a disgrace that our democracy has been eroded by Americans with Russian proclivities. Where did the American people get the notion that the two worlds could become one. Russia has been a thief and a thorn to all the free world economy for its own purposes. We need to know that trump is a Russian lover.
You really don’t understand this at all do you? The GOP is challenging the liberal CA AG’s opinion that what the Dems have been doing for years is illegal because the GOP is doing it now. SMH
That’s fraud and should be prosecuted. Arrest them ASAP.
There is no Law that says the DEMS Cannot Collect the Ballot Boxes, and Ballots.
bannana republic
And to think, it’s people going to jail for the smallest things, while they cheat, lie, steal and let Americans die. I don’t understand
So they collect the ballots. Look up to see if they’re Republican. Discard the ballots if they’re Democratic. Makes sense.
I’m sure the left won’t lie
This should be the message of this news report: Please go and vote in person at a ballot office. Do not mail in your ballots or put your ballots in drop boxes. Election fraud at a huge scale is happening this year.
Republicans dont trust cheating democrats.install drop boxes, liberals heads exploding. 🤷♂️
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They should just watch the boxes and charge anyone who collects the ballots with tampering. Then take the ballots to the county election board and have them properly processed.
There is nothing ‘illegal’ about ballot harvesting in CA. The only thing illegal about this is the Lib CA AG’s opinion that they cannot put the word ‘Official’ on the boxes. The Dems have been collecting ballots door to door for years. There is NOTHING in the law that prohibits people ‘collecting’ ballots. The Libs are fighting this because now, for a change, the ballots are being collected from predominately conservative locations. Please research your facts my friend.
BLM
I turned my dog house into an unofficial GOP ballot box and I am getting a lot of ballots for trump should I put them into an official box?
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The new lows to which the Republican party will stoop amaze me more as each day passes. I believe the republicans are trying to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the elections to give Trump and company grounds to contest the election.
republicans claim the boxes are legal yet illegally put official drop box on it. so they won’t mind if the other side puts their own official drop boxes right next to them right
Since some seem to be thinking that whether or not this is illegal is up for debate:
The California Secretary of State announced such unauthorized ballot drop-boxes are illegal: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccrov/pdf/2020/october/20240jl.pdf
In addition, the GOP have acknowledged that the boxes are theirs. Therefore, they have committed an illegal act.
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It is a SHAME that usa that lectures other Nations about Democracy & Equality, makes its OWN people wait 7 hrs in Lines to Vote (that too in EARLEY VOTING !!). SHAME ON AMERICA & ITS GOVT Make america Great ? my a*s, America is worst then Africa Banana Republices. Bet Russia & China have more EQUALITY & RULE OF LAW then america does. Your days are over america, you are just “all talk, no substance”. The world sees you in your TRUE COLOURS.
Why are you Americans still using such a stupid and backward voting system? Is it because it facilitates fraud? My gosh… even here in Brazil we have a better one.
No No
Listen to the California Secretary of State
Yes, let the weasel watches the chicken…
I live outside Modesto, CA. The pastor of a local mega church, who is also running for mayor, had one of the illegal unauthorized ballot boxes installed at his church campus, Big Valley Grace. His name is Rick Countryman, phone 209-577-1604
Wtf. Why aren’t those boxes are just removed?
you are fake news
If you’re too dumb or lazy to vote in person and are willing to trust a drop box then you deserve the potential consequences.