BREAKING CALIFORNIA ELECTION NEWS!! 18,000 BALLOTS HAVE BEEN REJECTED BASED ON SIGNATURE – STEALING THE ELECTION FROM SPENCER PRATT
OR did they? – perhaps this post should be titled…
BREAKING NEWS – INFLUENCERS PUT CLICKS BEFORE TRUTH – HARMING THE ELECTION CONVERSATION MORE THAN HELPING!!
Word around the internet lately, particularly in the “Election Integrity Influencer” circles, is that 18,000 Spencer Pratt voters have received letters telling them that their vote was ‘thrown out’ due to ‘signature irregularities’.
So, let's look at the claim first – is it true?
Short answer, No it is not true. How can I say this with certainty? Well, let's look at California law and the currently ‘in-flight’ election results.
California uses signature verification to identify voters even in person – we’ll talk more about this in a minute.
Mail-in ballots can only rely on your signature because you have mailed it in. You’re not there to provide anything else. So, CA law has responded to that with one of the most ‘friendly’ ballot curing laws around. What is does is gives every voter weeks to respond if there is a problem with their signature.
So, could people have received letters from the state or their county about their signature on a mail-in ballot? YES
Did the letter say we don’t like your signature, so we are throwing your ballot away? NO
If they got a letter, it instructed them about how to ‘cure’ their ballot and the deadline for that for the CA primary election of June 2nd, is June 24th. They would also get a form to fill out and return to resolve the problem. Very convenient – too convenient – still not protecting our elections.
For this post though – it is most important to understand that they did not get a letter telling them their ballot had been discarded. Actually even if they did, they could go to the California elections page and get the instructions to fix it.
So this claim…
“18,000 SPENCER PRATT BALLOTS HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY” is not true
Let’s get back to the second title on this post. Why is this even a story at all right now – it is because influencers want to capture your attention and your click. Sensational news gains followers. Verifying sensational news is usually challenging and in the landscape of social media, most are scrolling from one idea to the next and they don’t take the time to go ‘look it up’.
THIS IS DANGEROUS
It is dangerous for the truth, and it spreads ideas that are false, making everyone pursuing legitimate claims about election validity look like our claims are bogus and exaggerated - when they are not.
You have heard this many times in the last 6 years in particular…
BE CAREFUL WHO YOU FOLLOW
and… DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
This is as relevant now as ever.
The research is not always easy, but you need to do it. Do it for the info we post too. We don’t want blind followers. In fact, since our work is backed by years of data analysis by a team of about 100 Data engineers, architects and analysts, we WANT you to check our work.
To confirm what we say above, check out the link below…
Go to the CA voting website. Click on the link for the June 2, 2026 Primary, Click the link that says ‘How to Fix a Missing or Noncomparable Signature on Your Vote-by-Mail Ballot Return Envelope’ – it’s all there in black and white.
…and when you see someone posting about the 18,000 deleted votes – spread the truth – the real truth and help others not be fooled.
A quick extra note about ‘signature verification’ in lieu of ID – this is another reason why it poses a problem for our elections. The focus is usually that it does not properly protect the act of voting in the first place, but this story (even though it is bogus) shines a light on the fact that using your signature does introduce subjectivity into the process of accepting votes. A huge problem! We’ll post more on this soon.
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