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Election integrity or political partisanship?

July 13, 2025

Allan Cooper

OPINION By ALLAN COOPER

Regarding the San Luis Obispo County clerk-recorder being accused of violating the Public Records Act: Shiloh Marx, the plaintiff and founder and director of the so-called California Election Integrity Initiative, was quoted recently saying, “Gavin Newsom used the two million inactive and ineligible voters in 2022. Just like Biden used the 5.3 million inactive voters to win by 5.1 million in 2020. We have removed 1.3 million inactive and ineligible voters— and we have 15 months left. California will have a shot at a Republican Governor.”

Experts refute claims of widespread election fraud in California. These allegations are largely considered deceptive and based on flawed data analysis, according to election officials and experts.

Inactive voters do not receive ballots according to the Secretary of State’s office. The state only counts active voters when tallying the total number of registered voters.

Mr. Marx, the plaintiff, appears to be less concerned with election integrity as he is hell bent on getting a Republican elected Governor of the State of California by spreading these conspiracy theories.

Alan Cooper, a long-time San Luis Obispo resident, is a member of Save Our Downtown.

 


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Facts and reason have no bearing on the MAGA mind. Even asking for basic decency is a stretch these days. They have lost the plot and are only out to satisfy themselves with no concern for anyone else’s well-being.


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Facts and reason have no bearing on the MAGA mind. Even asking for basic decency is a stretch these days. They have lost the plot and are only out to satisfy themselves with no concern for anyone else. Disgusting people imo.


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Wow the exact same thing could be said about the left wing radicals that have hijacked this State and intent on destroying it. Disgusting people imo.


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I really don’t know about the veracity of Mr. Marx’s claims, but why would anyone oppose trying to achieve the cleanest, most-accurate voter rolls possible? Don’t we have a State law regarding removal of inactive voters? Shouldn’t we require our officials to be in compliance with the requirements of these laws? This seems like a no-brainer: ensure that every voter registration is associated with an actual, living person who resides in the state. This doesn’t seem like too much to ask.


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In spite of my frequent vehement disagreements with Mr Cooper, on this matter he is absolutely correct.


Many of those who remain the the GOP have discarded all sense of shame and connection to reality by convincing themselves that the problem isn’t their unpopular and frequently anti-constitutional stances, but it’s that a vast conspiracy of foreigners stealing democratic elections from them. Blaming the election counters is delusion at best, a deceptive rejection of pluralistic small-l liberalism in favor of blood and soil nationalism at worst.


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My sister received ballots for the last two elections. She had already passed away. If Cano has nothing to hide, why does she continually hide it? All we election “deniers” want, is the truth. There is and has been a great deal of evidence that something isn’t right with the elections, just stop hiding information and prove it! Oh yeah, the left says that our attempts at cleaning up elections amount to nothing more than denying certain citizens the right to vote. What about the poor fellow that gets up on election day and heads to the polling location where he has voted for years and then finds out his precinct was changed from Creston to the south side of Atascadero, or that he no longer is registered in a precinct at all and must only vote by mail? And I really can’t figure this one out, how does a box of 300 plus ballots found in a locked cabinet be put in the cabinet via a spreadsheet error? What does a spreadsheet have to do with the placement of a box a ballots? The basic point is, Cano does not seem to be capable of doing her job openly and honestly. All we want is for her to be open and honest and to prove that she can actually run an honest and open election.


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And did you use those ballots to vote illegally? No, you did not, because doing so would draw the ire of law enforcement. What other “evidence you got?”


Trumpers tried like hell to prove nefarious goings on in 2020 and ALL of their lawsuits were laughed out of court. And, it is your fault not check your ballot for polling locations rather than just going to the old location. Things change.


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Any mathematician or statistician looking at the total Biden votes in 2020, compared to historical trends before and after that election will tell you that something stinks. That coupled with refusals to allow forensic reviews of voting machines tells you someone’s hiding something. Yeah, the 2020 election was stolen; no doubt about it.


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In the last election I received TWO ballots as did another adult member of my family. Not withstanding claims of “ widespread voter fraud” or “stolen elections …” it seems to me that there is nothing wrong with tightening up the process. Nothing wrong or “ MAGA” about continuous improvement of any government process.


By the way we each voted only once.


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