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Election denial has become characteristic of President Donald Trump\u2019s political movement, with him and his allies consistently promoting conspiracy theories to explain away their electoral losses. The latest example has involved Republican claims that the Los Angeles mayoral primary was stolen. Now, MAGA lawmakers in Washington State have begun leveraging conspiracies about California elections to attack their own state\u2019s mail-in-voting system in an effort that even a former state GOP chair has called baseless. <\/p>\n

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According to the Seattle Times<\/u>, \u201cThe latest conspiracy theories center on California\u2019s slow vote-counting. Like Washington, California counts ballots postmarked by Election Day, often requiring several days before final results in close races are known. Election-night results in Los Angeles showed Spencer Pratt, a conservative former reality TV star, potentially advancing past the primary to face Mayor Karen Bass. But as more ballots were counted, progressive City Council member Nithya Raman surged into second place<\/u>, securing a November matchup against Bass.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Times notes that this outcome wasn\u2019t surprising given Los Angeles\u2019 strongly Democratic demographics, \u201cbut some conservative media influencers who had pumped up Pratt\u2019s chances have questioned the outcome, egged on by President Donald Trump and trillionaire Elon Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, \u201cthe state GOP has repeatedly amplified claims that the California election was rigged and asserted that Washington\u2019s similar mail-in ballot system is also corrupt. The party shared a post from an online conservative influencer known as \u2018Libs of TikTok\u2019 claiming \u2018They just cheated in an election right in front of our eyes.\u2019 Another post shared by the state GOP asserted the California election was clearly fraudulent even if it can\u2019t be proven.\u201d This comes amidst a months-long campaign by Washington State GOP officials trying to argue that the state\u2019s vote-by-mail program is corrupt, \u201ceven as the party tries to convince its voters to cast ballots this fall for its preferred candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMail-in ballots are how blue states cheat and win elections,\u201d the party claimed on X last week, saying it\u2019s been going on \u201cat least since 2004\u201d when a Republican candidate lost a historically close race. When asked by the Seattle Times what evidence there was of untrustworthy mail-in voting, current state GOP Chair Jim Walsh \u201calso cited the 2004 race, and a 2019 Seattle City Council election in which Kshama Sawant, a socialist, surged in late vote counts to win reelection after lagging far behind on Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to tie the LA election to his claims, saying, \u201cThe recent, statistically unlikely post-Election Day results on the Los Angeles mayoral primary are not directly relevant to Washington elections, of course. But they have raised concerns about election integrity generally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe state GOP has even questioned Gov. Bob Ferguson\u2019s election, claiming in a post on X that he \u2018wouldn\u2019t be gov\u2019 if the state voted in person with ID instead of via mail,\u201d writes the Times. \u201cThe party offered no evidence to support the claim. Ferguson defeated Republican Dave Reichert by more than 430,000 votes in 2024, continuing a 40-year winning streak for Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

But not all state GOP officials are on board with the conspiracy claims. State Republican Party Chair Chris Vance \u2014 who oversaw the controversial 2004 race \u2014 told his fellow officials to \u201cPut up or shut up\u201d in a recent op-ed. <\/p>\n

According to the Times, \u201cHe said Republicans documented plenty of mistakes in the 2004 election, including ballots cast in the names of deceased voters and by ineligible felons. But, Vance said, they found zero evidence of a fraud scheme carried out by Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t have looked harder than we did,\u201d he said. \u201cThere has never been a scintilla of evidence of organized fraud out there that actually makes a difference in an election.\u201d He went on to assert that his party\u2019s parroting of \u201cinsane conspiracy theory nonsense\u201d is only hurting its electoral chances in the state. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is red meat for the MAGA part of his party,\u201d said Secretary of State Steve Hobbs. \u201cBut I will tell you most of the Republican legislators know we have a good system.\u201d <\/p>\n

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