While the results of the marquee primary contests in California are still unknown — and may remain unknown, if history is any guide, for weeks — there is one thing we know for sure: California’s entire election system is rigged, and, as a result, California’s elections will not be fair and secure until changes are made. Enacting the SAVE America Act would be a perfect start.Over the last generation, California’s Democrats have made significant changes to election laws and procedures. Each reform was sold as nonpartisan, an example of good government at work. Each came wrapped in the language of fairness, transparency, independence, moderation, and democracy.And each, not incidentally, tilted the playing field further to the left and further toward the Democrats.
TURNING POINT THREATENS TO PRIMARY JOHN THUNE IF SAVE AMERICA ACT DOES NOT PASS
It began when voters passed Proposition 11 in 2008 and Proposition 20 in 2010 to take the state legislative district and congressional district line-drawing power out of the hands of lawmakers and put it instead in the hands of an independent redistricting commission, a change that simply moved power from Democrat elected officials to liberal activists (who worked closely with Democrat elected officials) who drew the same gerrymandered maps, now under the guise of an independent citizens’ commission.
