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Ramin begins by noting that California said 657,000 people voted in Riverside County on Prop 50, but the registrar’s handwritten logs show 611,000 ballots came through the door—a gap of 45,896 ballots. He adds that a sheriff, sworn in with a badge and a court-issued warrant, says he’ll count those ballots himself, and the California attorney general “loses his mind” over the idea of stopping someone from counting paper.
Speaker 1 clarifies the numbers: the registrar of voters’ logs show 611,428 ballots cast, while 657,322 votes were reported and certified to the secretary of state, a difference of 45,896 votes.
Ramin uses a simple analogy to illustrate the discrepancy: if you squeeze 20 lemons and sell cups all afternoon, but someone later claims 28 cups were sold, eight cups exceed the supply. He says this is the gist of Riverside’s situation: 611,000 ballots entered, 657,000 votes certified, and a 45,896-vote gap, which he calls unacceptable.
He emphasizes that this is not a local school board vote, but Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50, officially called the Election Rigging Response Act. Prop 50 gave Sacramento the power to overturn California’s independent redistricting commission and redraw all 52 congressional districts to benefit Democrats, with maps crafted by Democratic operatives and in effect through 2030. It passed statewide 64% to 36, with over 8,000,000 votes cast.
Ramin notes that while the phantom Riverside votes did not flip the statewide result, the point is about potential partisan impact: Republicans currently hold the House by six seats, and California’s new maps are designed to flip five of those seats. He mentions representatives Kevin Kiley and Darrell Issa as examples of Republicans in districts that were redrawn to become more favorable to Democrats. If Democrats flip those seats in November 2026, they would take back the House.
Buried within the election that made all of this possible is the 45,000-vote gap in a single county. He extrapolates: if Riverside County’s 7% turnout were representative of all 8,000,000 statewide votes, that could imply over 500,000 “ghost votes.” He explicitly says he is not asserting that this happened and that nobody knows, because no… (the excerpt ends abruptly).