According to The Post Millennial, US Attorney for California Bill Essayli has moved to investigate the state’s allegedly fraudulent voting process, declaring that “protecting the integrity of California's elections is a top priority for my office.” Yet he now reports that California officials are actively blocking a federal audit of the state’s voter rolls, raising serious questions about what they may be trying to conceal.
Essayli points to a registration regime so lax it would be unthinkable in many other democracies, noting that this is a state that “allows first-time voters to register” using gym membership cards, employer ID cards, credit or debit cards, prescription drug labels, and insurance cards. None of these documents confirms a Social Security number or proof of US citizenship, a glaring omission in a state that also extends state-funded insurance to illegal immigrants, prompting Essayli to conclude that this “policy deserves a closer look."
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The US Attorney further observes that California fails to promptly remove dead voters, residents who have moved, or those “convicted of disqualifying felonies” from its rolls. At the same time, the state permits ballot harvesting, in which ballots pass from the voter to third-party collectors—often Democrat-aligned organizations—before being delivered for counting.
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“This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot,” Essayli noted, underscoring the vulnerability of a system that effectively severs the direct chain of custody between voter and election officials. He explained that his office and the Department of Justice have spent more than a year attempting to audit the rolls to ensure that only US citizens are voting, but California has obstructed those efforts, forcing Essayli to sue; the case now sits before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
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State officials insist they are under no obligation to comply with the federal review, invoking state privacy laws as a shield. Essayli counters that DOJ Civil Rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon “sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context."
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While polling shows most Americans support limiting voting strictly to citizens with proof of eligibility, Democrats in Washington have blocked the SAVE America Act in the Senate, legislation designed to reinforce that basic standard. Republicans, who nominally control the chamber, have so far declined to defy procedural roadblocks and push the measure through, leaving states like California free to continue practices that critics argue erode confidence in the ballot box and undermine the principle that American elections belong to American citizens.
