🚨 CALIFORNIA’S ELECTION STORY JUST CAUGHT FIRE — AND THIS GOES BACK TO ALEX PADILLA.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is simply Newsom vs. Bill Essayli.
Newsom is stepping into the fight now.
@SenAlexPadilla helped build the system they are fighting over.
Before Gavin Newsom defended California’s voter rolls, Padilla served as California Secretary of State.
Under Padilla came the expansion and implementation of the election architecture I have spent months investigating:
• VoteCal
• Motor Voter
• DMV voter-registration transfers
• Vote Centers
• Ballot drop boxes
• Expanded vote-by-mail
• The Voter’s Choice Act
• The unanswered Riverside voter-registration problems
• Documented DMV errors involving thousands of Californians
I wrote this story BEFORE DOJ arrived with more than 20,000 names it says are likely noncitizens registered to vote in California.
Now DOJ has sued California.
This did not begin yesterday.
🚨 READ THE PAPER TRAIL:
PART I — The 2020 Election Steal Was Built Before COVID
Zuckerberg money, Alex Padilla’s election model, and the Sacramento County paper trail:
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🚨 PART II — Sacramento Had Election-System Warning Signs Before CTCL Money Arrived
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🚨 PART III — After the Grant: The Alarm Sacramento and California Cannot Ignore
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🚨 BECERRA AND PADILLA — THE 2016 ELECTION-SECURITY QUESTIONS
Riverside. VoteCal. DMV failures. Change Request #14.
What did California know, and what was done about it?
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🚨 CALIFORNIA’S VOTER-ROLL PROBLEM IS BIGGER THAN NONCITIZENS
Published September 30 — before this lawsuit.
I asked the question California still needs to answer:
If California will not use the expanded federal SAVE system, what independent system is California using to verify citizenship?
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And now, October 15, 2026:
The United States Department of Justice has sued California after federal investigators said they identified more than 20,000 registered voters they believe are likely noncitizens.
That allegation still has to be proven in court.
But California can no longer dismiss the underlying verification question as hypothetical.
Newsom may be standing at the podium today.
BUT TO UNDERSTAND HOW CALIFORNIA GOT HERE, GO BACK TO ALEX PADILLA.
Follow the documents.
Follow the timeline.
And ask the question I have been asking from the beginning:
WHO VERIFIED THE VERIFIERS?
— Christine Bish
THE BISH REPORT
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