We all remember our parents and teachers warning us: “Don’t believe everything you hear or read.” It was, and still is, wise advice. “Common wisdom” is rarely “common” and even more rarely “wisdom.”

There is no shortage of “common wisdom” circulating regarding our elections. It is high time some of those widely-held beliefs be exposed as false, and be stamped with the label, “It Just Ain’t So.”

Part 1 of this series called into question the widely held assumption that it is desirable to make voting easy and convenient. We now turn to the next “truism” about our elections that too many people in our nation unquestionably believe:

False Notion #2: Universal Vote By Mail is Wonderful!

Universal mailing of ballots (and eventually universal vote by mail with no other option) is arguably the final goal of those pushing a clear and unsavory legislative agenda.

In 2020 the California Governor and legislature quickly took advantage of a blown-out-of-proportion “crisis” and mandated universal mailing of ballots statewide for that election.

Then, they perpetrated the demonstrably false mantra far and wide that the 2020 election was “the cleanest and most secure election in history”. It was anything but that!

From the perspective of the Progressives’

alleged agenda, it was a huge success.

The 2020 election DID, as a result of the mail ballot mandate:

• distance citizens from the electoral process
• discourage voting in person
• inject chaos into the election system
• facilitate lack of transparency
• lead to more illegitimate votes being cast and counted
• lead to more actual voters being disenfranchised without their knowledge
• facilitate invisible election manipulation

In 2021, with their 2020 lies firmly gripped as a club against opposition and their ears and eyes closed tightly against the truth, the Governor and legislature established the universal mailing of ballots as a permanent mandate.

Unfortunately, California tax payers pay the price for this legislative malpractice. The universal mailing of ballots is a financial catastrophe.

Voter turnout, even in high-profile elections, is nowhere near 100%. The unnecessary expenditure of sending ballots to those who either choose not to or cannot (moved or deceased) use them boggles the mind.

By printing and mailing hundreds of thousands of ballots that won’t get used, the State has engaged in a colossal waste of millions of taxpayer dollars each election!

If stacked one on top of another, the number of unused printed and mailed California ballots from 2016 to 2022 would be 187 times taller than the tallest building in the world, reaching just under 60 miles, 2 miles short of reaching space! (Statistics courtesy of Patriot Force.)

Voter confidence and finances are not the only downside of universal vote by mail.

In our On Your Honor article series, we described the many ways that pushing millions of unsolicited ballots into circulation has destroyed the integrity of our elections. It is a system that operates outside the view of observers and the general public and can thereby be easily manipulated.

There are plenty of reasons to believe

that not all voted ballots are used legitimately.

By depending on a system of ballot delivery, return and acceptance that has weak accountability and no reliable chain of custody, it is impossible to determine how many ballots are voted and counted illegitimately.

Finally, universal vote by mail encourages early voting, which in turn provides election manipulators the information they need to alter final results by injecting counterfeit ballots into the system and altering algorithms in the electronic voting and tabulating systems.

Universal vote by mail is definitely NOT wonderful.

From the perspective of electoral fairness, honesty and integrity, it is monumentally non-transparent, expensive, and insecure.

Until these laws can be overturned and the state returns to sanity, one way every voter can lessen the risk to their own vote is by choosing the option to vote in person, which EVERY California voter has the right to do.

• Polling places and Vote Centers should be used for in-person voting!

• Mail ballots should be used only in case of emergency, DEFINITELY not for convenience.

• The more people who reject the mail-in option and vote in person, the more integrity there will be in our elections.

We still have the power. Let’s use it.

Please stay tuned for Part 3 of this series, It Just Ain’t So.