Does Your Vote Really Count

Written By:  Andrew Eide

I do not believe that all votes cast in every election are counted. I also believe in many elections there are lots of illegal votes consisting of either non-United States Citizens voting or legal voters voting more than once under different variations of their names.

I will give you two examples. One is from Orange County California and the other is from California when it comes to counting Absentee Ballots.

I forgot the year this happened but the Incumbent United States Congressman representing Orange County was Robert Dornin a Republican. He was challenged by Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat, for his United States Senate Seat. After the election Dornin filed a protest stating he believes thousands of illegal aliens voted for Sanchez.

When the investigation was run by both the Registrar of Voters of Orange County and the Secretary of State of California they found that Sanchez had over 5,000 illegal votes with most of them cast by illegal aliens who are not legally authorized to vote. Authorities ordered another election between Dornin and Sanchez.

In this second election Dornin again demanded an investigation. This time the Registrar of Voters and the Secretary of State found that Sanchez had 1,200 illegal votes. They determined, though, that when those 1,200 illegal votes were removed from her vote total she was still around 500 votes ahead of Dornin so they gave the election to Sanchez to become United States Congressman for Orange County.

In my opinion if you have any illegal votes that should totally invalidate your candidacy and you should be kicked out of the race.

The second incident involves Absentee Ballots. In the State of California the Absentee Ballots favor Republicans over Democrats of a margin of around 70 percent to 30 percent. This means if you have one million Absentee Ballots you would end up, after counting them, around 700,000 votes for the Republican and 300,000 for the Democrat. However I have heard from very reliable sources that they place all Absentee Ballots into a secure warehouse and they only count them if an election is very close. If the election is classified as a wide margin they will not count the Absentee Ballots and then destroy them, uncounted, after the election has been officially declared decided.

When my friend, Matt Fong, rang for the United States Senate seat in California against Barbara Boxer. When all the regular votes were cast Barbara Boxer was declared the winner by around 100,000 votes.

Say there are one million Absentee Ballots and let’s say that all of them are counted (which they were never counted in this election between Boxer and Fong). Considering the 70-30 ratio of Absentee Ballots favoring Republicans, let’s assume that Matt Fong would have received 500,000 votes from the Absentee Ballots and Boxer would have received 200,000. Since Matt Fong was behind in regular votes by 100,000 if you were to add the 200,000 to Boxer’s vote count and 500,000 to Fong’s vote count, that would have placed Matt Fong with 200,000 more votes than Boxer and he should have won the election for United States Senate in California.

However due to the State of California never counting Absentee Ballots unless an election is very close Matt Fong was cheated out of a victory to become United States Senator for the State of California.