Part 1 of this series dealt with California’s unwise policy and regrettable inability to not verify registrants’ citizenship before adding them to the voter rolls. If you missed it, we urge you to read it soon.

We now turn to the problem of faulty voter rolls, which pose notable problems for election integrity. EIPCa data experts identified (conservatively) almost half a million “bad” registrations on the rolls before the 2020 election: duplicates, deceased, relocated, and significant numbers who had not voted for many years, sometimes decades.

If in-person voting with photo ID were the only way to vote,

the chaos in our voter rolls would pose less of a problem.

But California has relentlessly pushed citizens to vote by mail since 1998, and in 2020 began universal mailing of ballots to every registrant on the “active” voter rolls.

Because those rolls are unreliable and woefully inaccurate,

communities are flooded with ballots that do not necessarily

have a valid voter to receive them.

• Ballots arrive at addresses where voters no longer live, making it possible for the current resident to complete and return that ballot.

Because of the lack of a voter ID requirement and almost non-existent signature verification standards, almost all fraudulently submitted ballots will be accepted, and even if they are not, there is no consequence to the persons who sent them in.

It’s a crime, the perfect, undetectable crime!  

• One individual may receive multiple ballots due to registration duplication and the state’s reluctance to remove the duplicates.  This makes it possible for such individuals to vote more than once. The state simply trusts people not to do so.

Another dangerous, “on your honor” loophole.

EIPCa analysts found that in California’s 2020 election, there were 124,000 more votes counted than voters recorded as having voted, including 116,000 vote by mail ballots with no apparent voters attributed to those ballots.

They also found more than 7,700 voters with two votes credited to their vote history.



• Suspicious addresses, such as post-office boxes, storefronts, and office buildings, enable bad actors to locate, complete, collect, and return ballots that never reached valid voters.

Envelope ballots have virtually no reliable chain of custody.

Allowing widespread use of them is naïve and dangerous to integrity.

Lured by the convenience of voting by mail, and ignorant of the threat to integrity inherent in any envelope ballot, over 80% of Californians now vote by mail, even though every voter has the right to cast an in-person vote at the polls and circumvent all of the uncertainty of voting by mail. Clearly among them are the innumerable and undetectable bad actors of questionable honor who use the state’s reckless On Your Honor and universal mail ballot systems to skew elections and create wide-spread lack of confidence in election results.

California’s “on your honor” mentality strikes again!!  

Please stay tuned for the rest of this On Your Honor article series..

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