No Elections Using Computers in California as State Officials Freeze Spending State Faces $68 Billion Deficit
“The State’s spending freeze means there will be no money in California to spend on multibillion dollar computer systems. Counties will have to use same day paper ballots with hand counting which cost a fraction of the complex machines to operate”. Chriss Street, CEO New California State, Former Treasurer Orange County, CA
The most recent information received from state officials of California is that there has been issued a spending freeze immediately for all state agencies by the DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE:
“The State of California anticipates significant General Fund budget deficits in fiscal years
2023-24 and 2024-25. Accordingly, this BL directs all entities under the Governor’s direct
executive authority to take immediate action to reduce current-year General Fund
expenditures. Departments shall also take measures to ensure more prudent spending from other state funds given the fiscal outlook. Statewide Constitutional Officers are strongly encouraged to comply with the provisions of this BL“.
This freeze is to last for the remainder of the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 fiscal years. New California State has been predicting for at least seven years the collapse would happen and its happened. California has “run out of other peoples money”. Now what?
According to Chriss Street CEO New California State, Former Treasurer Orange County, CA: “The State’s spending freeze means there will be no money in California to spend on multibillion dollar computer systems. Counties will have to use same day paper ballots with hand counting which cost a fraction of the complex machines to operate. The savings to the counties and state are in the tens of billions of dollars”.
In spite of numerous conversations with California state officials over the years by New California state officials about inaccurate financial statements, California’s lack of the annually required federal Audit Report since 2018 (only state in the union without a report), the loss by fraud of at a minimum of $180 billion through the Employment Development Department (EDD) and slow pay to vendors it looks like Newsom’s own fraud as Governor about the real California financials are now exposed.
California Gov. Newsom unveils historic $97.5 billion budget surplus (NBC) May 13, 2022
Chriss W. Street: CEO New California State wrote in a December 10, 2023 article for American Republic News:
“The non-partisan California Legislative Analyst Office just acknowledged the State of California business model has collapsed. After projecting $14 billion in deficits for the next two years in May, the LAO now projects the State of California faces $100 billion deficit over the next 18 months and $187 billion over the next four and a half years.
The Legislative Analyst Office(LAO) came up with a figure of $68 billion shortfall currently in this 2023-2024 fiscal year. New California State believes the LAO’s number of $68 billion shortfall is much less than what we predicted the real number maybe be well over $100 billion as a shortfall of cash.
New California expects a recession hit California in January 2024 which will add an additional $35-45 billion added on to the LAO’s own numbers. When everything is all said and done in the next couple of months this number maybe as high as $200 billion. We are expecting more numbers in the next week.
“This is something the state of California cannot overcome. We knew it would come to this, that there would be a financial collapse of the state of California and here it is now. This is an important story from the standpoint that there has been issued by the state a spending freeze by all aspects of the state”.
“We wanted to look at the impact that would have on the upcoming primary election in March and also in November 2024 so we asked our CEO of new California state Chris Street the former treasurer of Orange County California who served as a member on the five member panel of county treasurers in 2008-2010 when California was also challenged by the recession. Chriss helped to save California in that time frame from default so understands the numbers coming in and out of the state. As California refused to stop spending and the numbers continued to rise predicting current circumstances became obvious. They’ve now run out of tax payer money”. Paul Preston, President , New California State.
So what that means though in terms of the elections. Elections are very expensive especially in the computer world. It looks like there is no money that is going to be allocated to the counties to conduct elections using the various and sundry election systems. That means that these counties are going to be forced to go to one day paper ballot elections because the cost savings is enormous compared to the billion dollar industrial level vote systems that they have in California.
It means also that there will be no mail in ballots. There will be no chain of custody issues like we find with mail in ballots, there will be no 29 days of voting with your mail in ballots before the election day and there will be no 27 days after election day allocated to count the paper ballots. The amount of time to vote before and after election day have been open invitations to fraud so that problem is gone. The other problem of course is the electronic changing of ballots as whole numbers into fractionated votes inside the machines as weighted numbers that problem will no longer exist.
