House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has cast serious doubt over the “bizarre” California midterm election results, where it appears that seven GOP-held seats will flip to Democratic control, weeks later.
The election result “just defies logic to me,” said Ryan during a Washington Post live event.
“We were only down 26 seats the night of the election and three weeks later, we lost basically every California race. This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”
Ryan, who is retiring after this year, has previously declined to side with President Trump and other Republicans who have complained of election related irregularities and suspected fraud in places such as Florida and California, according to The Hill.
California does have a more liberal policy when it comes to counting ballots. The Golden State allows absentee ballots to be counted if they are mailed by Election Day and arrive at the registrar by the Friday after the election. That’s why results in a handful of close California House races were not called until days, or weeks, after Nov. 6.
In many cases, the GOP candidates had been leading on Election Night, but Democrats ultimately prevailed as additional absentee and provisional ballots were tallied in the days after. –The Hill
“In Wisconsin, we knew the next day. Scott Walker, my friend, I was sad to see him lose, but we accepted the results on Wednesday,” said Ryan following the election. In California, however, “their system is bizarre; I still don’t completely understand it. There are a lot of races there we should have won.”
When pressed about his California comments, Ryan said it seemed “bizarre” and “strange” that Democrats would win all seven competitive House races in California. Democrats ousted GOP Reps. Mimi Walters, Dana Rohrabacher, Jeff Denham and Steve Knight, and won seats held by retiring GOP Reps. Ed Royce and Darrell Issa. GOP Rep. David Valadao is trailing Democrat TJ Cox, but the race is too close to call. –The Hill
“The way the absentee-ballot program used to work, and the way it works now, it seems pretty loosey goose,” said Ryan. “When you have candidates who win the absentee ballot vote and then lose three weeks later because of provisionals, that’s really bizarre. I just think that’s a very very strange outcome.”
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla defended the process in an interview with CNN.
“The philosophy here is, while it may take a little bit longer to finish counting ballots in California, the policies are in place to ensure that all votes can be properly processed and added to the tally — and I guess better said, that all voices can be heard in the political process,” said Padilla.
By “all voices heard”, I presume he means dead ones whose votes are “channeled”, Hispanic votes who are not yet “formal” citizens, and 7 to 8 ballots each for the schizophrenics.
That asshole is trying to reinvent himself as a Republican conservative punching bag on MSNBC. It’s a pay off for his sabotage of conservatives the last few years. Like Michael Steele. Screw Him.
Democrats cheat in elections? No shit!
Vote early, vote often. Help get out the vote in the cemeteries, help the mentally disabled to vote.
California, and every other Democrat run State, is an open sewer of vote fraud. Good luck in 2020, with a DOJ that supports these criminals.
TINVOWOOT
Amen, Pastor.
war is when the govt tells me who the enemy is,revolution is when i figure it out on my own–
Not by actual votes cast by actual citizens.
Notice she said “all voices” not legitimate citizens voices with the right to vote!
Ryan is a retard.
Ryan gives us a blink or two-thanks asshole, now FOAD.
Call me Mr Silver Lining but the demographics are such that 2020 will probably be the last time we’ll see such blatant voter fraud. Oh bet your ass that’ll what goes down in 2020 will defy our senses but the million+ we’ve been LEGALLY allowing to emigrate for decades will finally have caught up with us.
That is looking on the bright side…in the future they won’t have the commit election fraud because they will be able to win legitimately.
I saw where the Republican for Governor, Cox got more votes by tens or hundreds of thousands than the congressional candidates in the same districts. It does not add up.
Last week there was a “mistake” where a public official mistakenly told the truth releasing jury duty stats. It showed that in California in 2016 and 2017, 600,000 people called for jury duty which involves names taken from voter registration rolls told the circuit clerks they were not eligible for jury duty because they were not citizens. Motor Voter is working as intended apparently. It is an easy assumption that there are millions of non-citizens registered there. THAT was the source of Hitlary’s popular vote margin.
Of course that tepid “oh gee” was all the RINO traitor could muster.
Perhaps the most milquetoast individual to ever walk the halls of congress.
You forget Bob Michel.
bob michel had no power,ryan did–
no excuse 4 ryan–
It was an ugly election in Santa Cruz. There were 10 candidates for city council, 2 of which are extreme socialists who backed each other running on platforms of class warfare, rent control, homeless advocacy. There are already 2 such types on the council of 7. The city clerk allowed same-day registration on UCSC campus (something many other universities elsewhere in the state don’t allow). I have spoken before just how left UCSC is, and anecdotal reports of illegal campaigning near poling place reported. Many of these SJW won’t even be living here in a few years. Because the “normals” had too many candidates (8), the votes were split enough to allow both extremists TO WIN by slim margins. Now the communist inspired radical measure ‘M’ rent control was defeated by the public 2 to 1 , as was repeal of Costa-Hawkins prop 10 state wide rent control, yet existing radical elements on city council just passed through their own rent control since ‘M’ failed. When the radical socialists take over WITH A MAJORITY next year we can look forward to full commie rent control be instituted over the clear rejection of the vast majority of voters ,as well as repeal of homeless outside sleeping ban, more homeless funding, whitey bashing (both new members are NAACP racist watchdogs). The next few years is going to be UGLY here in Santa Cruz. Normal people are losing here already.
Here in Minneapolis, we have gone full retard Progressive / Communist.
Ahhh…the perfect combination of motor voter and early voting bears fruit, of the bitter power craver kind.
The Paulistas know the red team isn’t any better.
Fraud minus russians equals democrats