30daysof… Election Facts
1. March 3, 2020 we had a primary election in California.
2. The results are still not complete as of March 17 but you can find the tallies and results here* (April 10 is the date the votes must be certified)
*Official Semi-Final Election Results Consolidated Presidential Primary Election Riverside County – March 3, 2020
3. How to check if your vote counted in this past election.. Click here and enter the last four digits of your social security and your birthday. Results usually take 30 days to process.
When you voted by mail or at the ballots, you were to tear off the perforated area before submitting to show proof od voting in case your vote is not counted. .
4. Our general election will be on Tuesday November 3rd, 2020
5. Make sure you are registered to vote or register at registertovote.ca.gov
6. Know who is currently “working for you” and decide if you like them. This tool at Ballotpedia.org list all the people who represent you at your registered address.
7. Research your candidates.
I personally don’t vote for lawyers, community service organizers, people without children, and people without business experience. I prefer family oriented candidates, natural born citizens, business owners with experience of success and failure and they must have a twitter account and be talking to their constituents. A website with their stance on immigration, healthcare, abortion, foreign policy, and their stance on big government or small government matters to me. They must post solutions, not just say what is wrong.
8. Follow your candidates on Twitter.
9.. Make notes in your ballot as you learn about all candidates.
10. Create your own playlists to track contests. This is a great tool to track your own choices. Choose My Contests.
11. Sign up to volunteer as an elections officer. It is a process every American should take part in once in their life
I did this and had an incredible experience learning how it all worked. And as you would imagine, It’s a mess. There were over 7 different ballots. SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY.
People came in and said they never got their ballot, or they got it and didn’t bring it. Many said they didn’t want to be vote by mail but were registered that way. 70% of the vote by mail people who came in and didn’t bring their ballot to surrender, had to fill out a provisional ballot.
No ID was asked for. Voter ID is not required.
Only 4 people used the EVU (electric voting unit) that day out of over 500 voters. Brand new machines and they werent even used.
After the polls closed at 8, it took us another 2.5 hours to separate the ballots and put it together in bags and boxes with seals. There are so many rules. Bad process.
When voting, it’s a rule you can’t wear clothes with a particular candidate. But when we dropped off ballots, the people who take them are wearing “their” candidates branded items. Not sure how this is Fair.
12. You get paid to be an elections officer. I think it ends up being about $5.62 an hour. I worked 15 hours + training for three hours. ($90/day)
13. Report all election fraud to your Attorney General. Remember, politicians work for You!
14. Election Fraud Reports can also be made to the FBI 225-291-5159 and the US Attorney General at 225-389-0443
15. The law changed in California to allow the top-two voting system which has since made equal representation unbalanced. That is why there is only Democrats on our ballots. UNFAIR!!! (see an illustrated example of this here)
For Example: Let’s say six Republicans, six Democrats, two Libertarians and one Green Party candidate are running for a state Assembly seat in your district. You’re free to vote for any candidate you want, regardless of party affiliation. The top-two vote getters in that race then face off in the general election. That could even result in two candidates from the same party running against each other.
16. No Party Preference In California, many registered voters are not affiliated with any party (known as “No Party Preference” voters). These voters receive a default non-partisan ballot that does not list any presidential candidates. However (and here comes the “modified” part), NPP voters can request to receive the presidential ballot of either the Democratic Party, the American Independent Party or the Libertarian Party (but not the Republican Party), and vote for those parties’ respective candidates.
17. California has six political parties:
DEM = Democratic Party
REP = Republican Party
AI = American Independent Party
GRN = Green Party
LIB = Libertarian Party
PF = Peace & Freedom Party
18. Electoral Votes to be replaced with popular votes aka The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The NPVIC is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. See why the electoral college is important versus the popular vote.
19. In order for the NPV to be effective, they need 270 electoral votes to pass. As of March 2020 there are 170. Following are the list of states who have signed on to the NPV Compact. It has been enacted into law in 16 jurisdictions possessing 196 electoral votes, including 4 small states (DE, HI, RI, VT), 8 medium-sized states (CO, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NM, OR, WA), 3 big states (CA, IL, NY), and the District of Columbia.
20. There are a total of 538 electoral votes
21. Currently Californians are trying to recall Gavin Newsome due to his sanctuary city policy. The petition at Change.org is almost to 300,000 signatures.
22. Other recall efforts in the State of California can be see here
23. Any California voter can put an initiative or a referendum on the ballot by following the “How to Qualify an Initiative process.”
24. People with a criminal history are allowed to restore their vote with this criteria
25. List of California’s County Election offices by county.
26. My local election office is, What is yours? (link above)
- Rebecca Spencer, Registrar of Voters
- 2724 Gateway Drive
- Riverside, CA 92507-0918
- (951) 486-7200
- (951) 486-7272 Fax
- Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- E-Mail: rovweb@co.riverside.ca.us
27. Use this form if you dont want to be a voter by mail.
28.. Use this form if you need to change spelling or you moved
29. Voters with disabilities have all the resources they need.here.
30. Schoolhouse Rocks still has the best fundamental way to explain the electoral college
