Americans across the country are watching California count their primary election ballots with astonishment, disbelief, and disgust. Home to the most high-tech companies, the most populous state in the union cannot count their votes on election day like every other state; it will take them more than a month after the election to come up with a final count. How can Florida count their millions of votes in just a few hours, but California cannot do it in weeks?

The short answer is the California election system is specifically designed to take weeks to count ballots after the election. Some joke that California needs that much time so that Democrats know how many votes they need to manufacture to beat Republicans. Watching the reality of this unfolding mess is not funny.

The entire California election is quite simply broken, but that’s how Democrats want it. To register to vote, anyone can use any form of identification, like a gym membership card or just the label of a prescription medication; that means voters actual identity is never verified. Then when a voter shows up to vote or turn in a mail in ballot, California prohibits asking voters for any form of identification, so they do not know who is actually voting.

Furthermore, California has no idea who is on their voter rolls because they never audit or maintain their voter rolls. Anyone who ever registered to vote in California for more than the past half century is STILL on the voter rolls. And then, California mails every one of them a mail-in ballot without request, so there are millions of mail-in ballots laying around all over California.

With millions of mail-in ballots floating around and “ballot harvesting” is legal in California, what could go wrong?! Well, we are watching Democrats steal yet another election in the broad daylight. Just last month, a Los Angeles woman was convicted for paying more than twenty homeless people to vote in several elections, so we have proof it happens. No one with a brain thinks she is the only one.

Upstart independent journalist, Nick Shirley, found a 126-year-old voter on the California voter rolls that had voted in the last 51 elections. He went to the registered address and met the woman who was 86, not 126; and she plainly said she had no idea about voting because she had never voted. Again, does anyone think she is the only one?!

The closely watched Los Angeles mayoral primary election is patent evidence of the massive electoral fraud in California. On election night, renegade challenger, Spencer Pratt, came in a solid second place some 9% ahead of Democrat Socialist Nithya Raman in third place; she conceded that night. But little more than a week later, Raman overtook Pratt in a twelve-point reversal! Stacks of mail-in ballots showed up after election day almost entirely for Raman; that is statistically impossible. This is brazen fraud in the broad daylight.

The Department of Justice has repeatedly asked California for their voter rolls to conduct an audit and California consistently refuses because they say it would violate California's privacy laws which is absurd because the federal government issues the sensitive information in question. The only reason to resist an audit of their voter rolls is to preserve their fraudulent election system.

California has the highest cost of living; the middle class is being decimated. A family of four needs more than a $250,000 household income to even consider buying a home. While the middle-class fades, California has the highest rate of poverty and homelessness. Corporate headquarters and industry are fleeing California. With unbridled illegal immigration, the sanctuary state of California is becoming a third world country and with a corrupt election system has become a banana republic.

Rush Limbaugh postulated that Americans would finally understand the failures of socialism not from some failed nation in Asia or South America but rather from the abject failure of the once Golden State. And here we are.

This past week a random ignorant MS NOW analyst defended the California election system praising their effort to afford every person the opportunity to vote and then their extraordinary effort to count every ballot they can find. And literally, California will count any and every ballot anyone can find. Ballots will be accepted for weeks after election day without a postmark; the cheaters only need write the election date on the ballot. She claimed this is what democracy looks like. No, Americans know this is what electoral fraud looks like.

Republican candidate for governor, Steve Hilton, is still in second place, but with weeks to go and still millions of ballots to be found, his place is not secure. They cheated Pratt, so there is no reason to believe they won’t cheat Hilton too. However, the problem for California is they have lost public trust in their elections. Even Democrats are acknowledging it’s a gross charade.

The sliver lining is Americans are watching Democrats steal California in the broad daylight, so they are realizing election fraud is a real problem and most likely in other states too. The California election debacle shows we must pass the SAVE America Act to restore election integrity and save our Constitutional Republic. Senator John Thune, you have no more excuses; pass it now!

“The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them” (Proverbs 11:3).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.