PREVIEW – Looking Back with a Critical Eye on the Wildly Successful Test Run of the Progressive Ballot Harvesting Scheme (Orange County, 2018)

Or…the alternate title: Eighty-Plus Million Biden Votes My Arse.

While I’m sure this has been done before, I feel it needs to be done again under the critical eye of my very important agenda. I am working on a post to evaluate the impact of the basic strategy noted in the title above as demonstrated in Orange County where the party distribution across the six districts appears to have been stable as shown below for the three election cycles running up to 2018. 

During those three election cycles only one of those red districts failed to get greater than 57% of the vote (District 49 in 2016 received only 50.3% of the vote). Then, after implementing the harvesting scheme for ballots in that 2018 cycle, in this very controlled/controllable test bed, the districts took on a very different primary hue.

The four previously red districts were flipped even while turning out their Republican voting masses at a rate 7% higher in relation to the preceding Presidential election (2016) than they did in the second Obama cycle (2012 and 2014). For reference, the democrat “turnout” in those districts was 56% higher in the same comparison and actually increased “turnout” in the off-year tally over the preceding Presidential election year. Unbelievable!…?…! (Philadelphia responded with a terse: “Challenge accepted!”) Just imagine the power of such a thing if strategically implemented in favorable urban areas with a special enabling factor of tens of thousands or even millions of untraceable mail-in ballots tied to hopelessly polluted voter registration rolls and backed by inexhaustible funds (see Zuck Bucks). But now I’m getting ahead of myself…

I hope to have the post…with appropriate data tables…ready this weekend. I hope you enjoy this little teaser. 

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