California election process criticised as vulnerable to fraud

Two opinion pieces allege that California's election system is deliberately structured to allow fraud. They cite the statewide mailing of ballots to all registered voters, the lack of voter ID, and the practice of ballot harvesting that lets unlimited third parties collect and submit completed mail‑in ballots. The authors also point to duplicate registrations created after the 2011 online voter‑registration law, the use of non‑citizen poll workers, driver‑license‑linked registrations for illegal aliens, and centralised county‑level vote counting that can delay results. One commentator asks, “If you make election fraud legal, is it still fraud?” and another quotes a U.S. attorney saying, “Our system sucks… We have universal vote by mail. We have no voter ID. That is a recipe for fraud.” The pieces argue that these features make the primary results for the governor and Los Angeles mayor unlikely to be certified for weeks and that the Democratic‑controlled election administration cannot be defeated under the current rules.