Daily PUMA Column - Commentary by Alessandro Machi

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

California leads the U.S. in Renewable Energy, but it's not all good news.

The irony of renewable energy is renewables absolutely have to have battery back-up before it can ever lead the way for supplying energy to all. Renewables by themselves require many built in safety checks to ensure the renewable energy source is not volatile, but stable. Battery storage back-up will always be needed whenever renewable energy is mentioned.
 
So, while California can tout they are number one in the U.S. in renewable energy sources, it is because there is also hydro, nuclear, natural gas, geothermal, and biomass that steadies out the unsteadiness of Solar and Wind energy.
 
 
What does this all mean? Effective Battery Creation that does not use child labor is required. Once the child labor issue is resolved, then hopefully battery storage can be used to preserve and steady out solar and wind energy. 
 
Until battery storage is safe, ethical, cost effective and available, there is no such thing as "we're number one" when it comes to renewables because the renewables are unsteady and absolutely require several other forms of steadier energy sources to be up and running for solar and wind to be relied upon.

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

DeSantis knocks it out of the Park with his description of Russia with Putin in charge, or was it John McCain's quote?

Quick update: Monday Mar 27, 2023: About a week ago The View mentioned that DeSantis's "gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons" comment was actually first said by John McCain around 2014. If this is true, then shame on DeSantis for plagiarizing someone else's comment, that's what Joe Biden did back in the 90's when he plagiarized several speeches from British Politicians. 
end of Monday, Mar 27, 2023 update:

After calling the Russia-Ukraine war a 'territorial dispute,' DeSantis says Putin is a 'war criminal' and 'basically a gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons'

Desantis's quote about Putin is pretty accurate specifically because of when Putin decided to go to war. After two consecutive budget surpluses, the second surplus bigger than the first, and with Europe and India lapping up all the petro and natural gas products Russia can export, Putin decided to start a war of destruction.

An imbalanced leader of the largest territorial country on the planet, twice as large as the next largest country, sees no value in having a highly successful economy that was running surging budget surpluses with no end in sight.

If Putin had not gone to war, Russia would probably be heading towards its fourth consecutive budget surplus. Instead, 20,000 to 80,000 Russian families have lost a son and there is no end in sight for this war. 

Viewing Russian Soldiers in Syria and Turkey helping with the Earthquake recovery while other Russian Soldiers are launching missiles doing the same type of physical damage as the earthquake, is surreal, and brings home De'Santis's point. Putin has turned Russia into a Gas Station with Nuclear weapons.

 


 

 

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

2017 Los Angeles County has over 800,000 Permanent Vote by Mail voters and an ever increasing percentage of Mail In Voters.

DailyPUMA was surprised to discover that there such a thing as a Permanent Vote by Mail designation for Los Angeles City.


 
Over 800,000 Permanent Vote by Mail voters are on the Voter Rolls. (see above illustration) as of 2017.
  

 

Above are yearly tallies showing the remarkable rise in vote by mail as the percentage of total votes. Sure seems odd that it takes a week to count mail in votes that are locally mailed in. Local mail is supposed to pretty much be overnight, maybe 2 nights max.

Please feel free to review the links and leave a comment regarding your observations.

 

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

L.A. Registrar's Office required 2022 George Gascon Recall Petition Drive to collect an extra 68,000 valid signatures than were lawfully required.

According to the LA Times, To put Gascon's job on the ballot, the campaign seeking his ouster needed to gather 566,857 valid signatures by mid-July (2022); the figure reflects 10% of the people who were eligible to vote in the election cycle when he won office in November 2020. The L.A. County registrar-recorder/county clerk's office said about the 520,000 of the signatures submitted were valid.

According to Breit Bart discussing the Judicial Watch Lawsuit,

In its statement, Judicial Watch noted the lawsuit alleged several key facts, which included, the following:

 According to the Judicial Watch Lawsuit

What does all of this mean? It could mean that when the LA county registrar mandated that the Recall George Gascon Petition drive needed 566,857 votes to qualify, it was based on falsely inflated voter registration rolls of 5,668,570. 

According to Breit Bart

If Los Angeles and California have been routinely not cleaning up voter rolls since the National Voter Registration Act was passed in 1993, the non compliance has helped insulate elected officials from voter recalls by artificially inflating the number of valid petition signatures needed to place a recall of an elected official on the ballot.  

It seems plausible that a judge would prefer to rule in favor of a retroactive reduction in the number of valid petition signatures needed to recall George Gascon, or, it would incentivize non-compliance of Federal Law such as NVRA with the worst penalty being nothing but, compliance? How would that be fair to the Voters who were thwarted from being heard due to bloated petition signature requirements?

I am not sure how a lawyer for the recall George Gascon Petition would argue in court for a retroactively assessing a lower number of required signatures, but there may be an argument waiting to be made in court that would make the 2022 George Gascon Recall Effort instantly valid and whole.

If a judge did nothing more than agree that an instant reduction from 112% to 100% of all LA adult age voters as a way to establish a new, lower Gascon Valid Signature number, the 2022 George Gascon Recal petition would have passed! When we subtract 12% from 5,668,570 overinflated LA Voter Rolls it would decrease LA Voter Rolls by 680,228 voters. This would make the NEW 100% total voter rolls in LA 4,988,342. 10% of 4,988,342 equals 498,348 valid signatures needed for the Gascon Recall to go through. The "failed" 2022 Gascon Recall netted 520,00 valid signatures! The 2022 George Gascon Recall should be declared as having reached the proper signature total, AS IS!

The 2022 George Gascon Recall Petition netted 21,500 more valid signatures than were legally required based on 100% of all LA Adult Voters!

Put another way, the L.A. Registrar's Office required 68,000 additional valid signatures than were legally required for the George Gascon Recall Petition Drive to have been approved.

Wed. Mar 22, 2023 5:51 am, Update:  This is a link to the LA Vote total Almanac pictured below.


 End of Wed. Mar 22, 2023 5:51 am, Update.



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The 2022 George Gascon Recall Petition netted 21,500 more valid signatures than were lawfully required based on 100% of all L.A. Adult Voters!

According to the LA Times, To put Gascon's job on the ballot, the campaign seeking his ouster needed to gather 566,857 valid signatures by mid-July (2022); the figure reflects 10% of the people who were eligible to vote in the election cycle when he won office in November 2020. The L.A. County registrar-recorder/county clerk's office said about the 520,000 of the signatures submitted were valid.

According to Breit Bart discussing the Judicial Watch Lawsuit,

In its statement, Judicial Watch noted the lawsuit alleged several key facts, which included, the following:

 According to the Judicial Watch Lawsuit

What does all of this mean? It could mean that when the LA county registrar mandated that the Recall George Gascon Petition drive needed 566,857 votes to qualify, it was based on falsely inflated voter registration rolls of 5,668,570. 

According to Breit Bart

If Los Angeles and California have been routinely not cleaning up voter rolls since the National Voter Registration Act was passed in 1993, the non compliance has helped insulate elected officials from voter recalls by artificially inflating the number of valid petition signatures needed to place a recall of an elected official on the ballot.  

It seems plausible that a judge would prefer to rule in favor of a retroactive reduction in the number of valid petition signatures needed to recall George Gascon, or, it would incentivize non-compliance of Federal Law such as NVRA with the worst penalty being nothing but, compliance? How would that be fair to the Voters who were thwarted from being heard due to inaccurate petition signature requirements?

I am not sure how a lawyer for the recall George Gascon Petition would argue in court for a retroactively assessing a lower number of required signatures, but there may be an argument waiting to be made in court that would make the 2022 George Gascon Recall Effort instantly valid and whole.

If a judge did nothing more than agree that an instant reduction from 112% to 100% of all LA adult age voters as a way to establish a new, lower Gascon Valid Signature number, the 2022 George Gascon Recal petition would have passed! When we subtract 12% from 5,668,570 overinflated LA Voter Rolls it would decrease LA Voter Rolls by 680,228 voters. This would make the NEW 100% total voter rolls in LA 4,988,342. 10% of 4,988,342 equals 498,348 valid signatures needed for the Gascon Recall to go through. The "failed" 2022 Gascon Recall netted 520,00 valid signatures! The 2022 George Gascon Recall should be declared as having reached the proper signature total, AS IS!

The 2022 George Gascon Recall Petition netted 21,500 more valid signatures than were legally required based on 100% of all LA Adult Voters!

Put another way, the L.A. Registrar's Office required 68,000 additional valid signatures than were legally required for the George Gascon Recall Petition Drive to have been approved.



 

 

 

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Southern California 50 dollar Natural Gas refund is not enough.

To anyone who may normally pay 100 to 200 dollars a month for natural gas, suddenly getting a 250 dollar to 575 dollar gas bill, followed by a 50 dollar rebate a month later, is a Cruel JOKE. If it were me, I would consider taking a 50 dollar bill and burning it in front of the Gas company headquarters to show them how insulting the $50 dollar rebate was.

All the Gas company had to do was take the hit themselves for one month of really high natural gas prices, and then be more frugal with their own executive bonuses in the upcoming year. All gas paying customers who normally have a 100 dollar or higher gas bill, are STILL OWED MONEY (in my opinion). The credit to their natural gass account should be equal to HALF of the record billing amount of their January 2023, bill.

Perhaps the Gas company is relying on someone filing a class action lawsuit so they can kick their problem down the road a few years by stalling the lawsuit. Call District 12 City Council Member John Lee's office and demand a 50% rebate from your January gas bill. 

If the Gas company is not held accountable this time, and if their executives receive their normal bonuses going forward, then where is their incentive to do better the next time?

 

 

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Monday, March 13, 2023

L.A. County Registrar and the Missing Mayoral Election Vote Update Links.

Please look at this LA country Nov. 8, 2022 thirteen Vote count update image, should not every vote update in the first column be linkable? Do not click on the image below. Click here for the link to the actual page this image appears on.

Here is the link to the above image. 

If you click on the link, try clicking on any of the "updates" numbered 1 through 13 in the first column. The Updates numbered 1 through 13 don't link to anything! This seems to be an act of omission in which necessary data for transparency purposes, is omitted from the record. Those Update totals exist, and since I like statistics, I want to study the updates. Where are the linkable updates? I won't claim the omission is intentional, but the omission needs to be "updated" and linked to actual vote totals that match the time and date of the update.


 

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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Using Math to prove the 2022 Recall Gascon Petition gathered enough Valid Signatures.

Judicial Watch has pulled the scab off of a very serious situation involving Registrars who do not keep their voter rolls current. It becomes increasingly difficult to remove an elected official through a recall petition drive because the 10% Petition signature threshold fraudulently inflates as the number of no longer valid voters kept on the voter rolls keeps rising.

A 2017 Judical watch lawsuit results in over 1.2 million voters being removed from the 2023 L.A. registrar voter rolls.  

However, the 1.2 million L.A. voters being removed opens up a Pandora's box of issues related to what is the correct number of valid signatures needed for a Recall Petition campaign.

According to the LA Times, To put Gascon's job on the ballot, the campaign seeking his ouster needed to gather 566,857 valid signatures by mid-July (2022); the figure reflects 10% of the people who were eligible to vote in the election cycle when he won office in November 2020. The L.A. County registrar-recorder/county clerk's office said about the 520,000 of the signatures submitted were valid.

When the L.A. Registrar's office attempted to quantify how many total signatures the Recall Gascon Petition needed to gather, what L.A. Voter roll total were they using? Was the L.A. Registrar's office using a 2020 voters roll that had minimally removed voters from their voter's rolls going back a decade or longer, or were they using an updated 2020 voters roll that included subtracting a significant percentage of the 1.2 million voters that were recently removed from the LA voters roll?

When the LA Registrar gave the Recall Gascon Committee a signature goal of 566,857 signatures they needed to collect, how many of the 1.2 million no longer valid voters were still being counted to inaccurately inflate the Petition Signature Requirement? 

The difference in Recall signatures needed to remove an elected official before and after 1.2 million voters has been removed is statistically astounding. 5,668,570 total L.A. voters requires 10%, or 566,857 valid petition signatures for the recall to be approved. However, since we know that 600,000 L.A. voters had not voted in 10 years or longer as of 2022, we can at the very least remove 60,000 petition signatures from the total needed for the Gascon recall to have had enough signatures.

The properly updated number of petition signatures needed to qualify would have been at the most 10% of 5,068,570, or 506,857. The Gascon Recall Committee produced 520,000 valid signatures, also known as 13,143 signatures MORE than what should have been the 2020 Gascon Recall Petition minimum needed to qualify. 

The 600,000 L.A. voter roll reduction is a VERY CONSERVATIVE AMOUNT. As of 2020 when Gascon ran for office, the actual number of L.A. voters who should have been removed from the L.A. voter's rolls was probably closer to 650,000 to 750,000, which would have meant 65,000 to 75,000 less valid petition signatures than the L.A. Registrar's office had mandated.

The question that a court needs to decide is what is a fair estimate of the total L.A. voters roll as of 2020 when Gascon was elected. I doubt any court would claim the increasing numbers of L.A. voters who were no longer eligible in 2020 was zero, nor would the court agree that all 1.2 million voters should be subtracted from the L.A. Voters roll in 2020. Clearly a number in the middle would be a fair result, and if that number is 400,000 or higher out of 1.2 million, the Gascon Petition recall already has enough valid signatures. Considering that 600,000 voters had not voted since 2012, 650,000 to 750,000 sure seems like a conservative estimate, which is well above the 400,000 threshold needed for the Recall Gascon Petition to have been accepted, AS IS.

No matter how one slices it, it looks like the Gascon Recall petition already has enough Valid signatures with at the very least, 13,143 petition signatures to spare. 

This is the follow up article to the 1.2 million voters removed from the L.A. Voters Roll could reverse the failed 2022 George Gascon recall.

 

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Friday, March 10, 2023

The 1.2 million voters removed from Los Angeles County Voter Rolls could reverse the failed George Gascon Recall.

The George Gascon recall drive may have been thwarted by bloated Los Angeles voter rolls that most likely inaccurately raised the recall signature threshold needed to recall George Gascon.

The recent removal of over 1 million, 2 hundred thousand voters from the LA voter Rolls may, or may not, have inflated the number of petition signatures required for the George Gascon recall vote. And, even if the argument is made that that was then, this is now, we would then have to ask how long was the voter roll reduction stalled before it came to be. 

Voter Roll Removal could become a quid pro quo in which LA Officials were stalling before the voters were removed from the voter rolls, thus inflating the number of signatures needed to recall George Gascon. 

Stay tuned as Daily Puma attempts a calculation to see how many less signatures the George Gascon recall actually needed.
 
  
On first glance this would mean the recent removal of 1.2 million voters from the rolls has no standing in regards to the Gascon recall. However, lets backwards engineer the numbers. From a claimed 5.67 million LA voters, the new numbers reflect a drop of 1.2 million voters, meaning there are now 4.47 million voters. This would mean only 447,000 votes would now be needed to recall George Gascon. 
 
Is it fair to just suddenly jettison 1.2 million voters and claim it had no effect on recent recall attempts? DailyPUMA believes the 1.2 million votes that were removed would have to be charted on a graph as if the voter rolls were actually being cleaned up every year. Just because 1.2 million voters were removed from the voter rolls does not mean they all "rolled off" this year. A calculation would have to be made going back at least 10 years and the 1.2 million removed voters could be calculated at 120,000 per year.

2012 to 2020 equals 8 years x 120,000 per year voter attrition. That would mean 960,000 thousand more voters were on the roll in 2020 than actually existed. Instead of 5.67 million voters, the argument can be made that when Gascon was elected, there were only approximately 4.71 million voters. This in turn means the Gascon recall only needed 471,000 votes to qualify, NOT the mandated 567,000.

This also raises the issue that by not updating voter rolls, local Governments are engaging in a power grab in which voters ability to recall an official diminishes the more bloated the voter rolls actually are. This also means vote percentage totals have been significantly inaccurate, which in turn can demoralize voters into thinking their city is apathetic because of inaccurately lower voting percentage totals.
 
If I were involved in the Gascon Recall effort, I would be in court demanding the petition total required to recall Gason was based on voter rolls that were not in compliance with FEDERAL LAWS, and that a new calculation needs to be retroactively applied that would instantly make the Gascon recall valid. 



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