California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, is already claiming that Gov. Gavin Newsom survived a Republican-backed effort to remove him from office because of voter fraud, one day before the election.
“They say that in America, there are four boxes of liberty. The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammo box,” a form on Elder’s website read. “When we vote we exercise our rights as Californians and as Americans to make our voices heard via the ballot box, having listened to others make theirs heard through the soapbox. We trust in our elected officials to safeguard that ballot box, such that its results will truly reflect our will as Californian’s.”
“However, when those officials, either through laziness or incompetence, allow thieves to steal amidst the dead of night and cheat our ballot box, we can no longer rely on its contents. Will we now have to fight the California jury box, in the hope that the final box — the one most akin to Pandora’s – remains closed?,” the message continued.
Elders campaign said “statistical analyses used to detect fraud in elections held in 3rd-world nations (such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran) have detected fraud in California.”
The message was accompanied by a petition asking voters to sign “demanding a special session of the California legislature to investigate and ameliorate the twisted results of this 2021 Recall Election of Governor Gavin Newsom.”
Results will not be available until Tuesday, after the election.
Republicans in California have been setting the stage to claim that there was fraud in the election since polling suggest Newsom might survive the recall effort.
“The 2020 election, in my opinion, was full of shenanigans,” Elder told Fox News earlier this month. “And my fear is they’re going to try that in this election right here and recall. So I’m urging people to go to ElectElder.com. Whenever you see anything, hear anything suspicious, go to my website. We have a battery of lawyers. We’re going to file a lawsuit in a timely fashion this time.”
Elder has also refused to say whether he will accept the result of the election or not.
Trump also told Newsmax that the recall election is “probably rigged.”
