The LA County Registrar has responded after a tweet Wednesday by President Trump claiming voting fraud with ballot collecting.
Trump retweeted a video that was filmed on Nov. 4, the day after the election. In it, the person filming walks up to two men collecting ballots from an official LA County ballot drop box and asks questions that seem to cast doubt on the validity of the ballots. Mr. Trump tweeted quote- "You are looking at BALLOTS! Is this what our Country has come to?"
The LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office responded to the President saying, "Yes, they are ballots; valid, legally cast ballots collected and processed by authorized election officials in accordance with the California Elections Code."
In a statement issued Wednesday, the office reiterated that the ballots were properly cast and collected and would be processed and counted.
“All Official Ballot Drop Boxes were closed on Election Day at 8pm and the scheduled ballot collection took place the following day. The ballots in the footage are valid ballots that will be processed and tallied in our Official Election Canvass. Additionally, the individuals in the video are Registrar staff.”
“The rule is you have until 8 p.m. on election night — you either postmark your ballot by Election Day, you go into a polling place or you use an official ballot drop box,” Levinson said. “But, if we didn’t count those ballots, we’d be going against what the law says, and we’d be disenfranchising a lot of valid votes.”