Here we go again.
The latest vote tallies from Los Angeles have found previously surging, buoyant, well-funded mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt slipping into darkness. He is now in third place, behind weeping, underfunded, overlooked City Councilwoman Nithya Raman. Even further Left than far-Left Mayor Karen Bass, Raman practically conceded the race last week after seemingly losing the second spot to Pratt in November’s two-candidate face-off.
But wait.
In a Hollywood-worthy plot twist, a sucking eddy of last-minute magic ballots began to swirl around Pratt after Election Day. As we have seen all too often, the Republican or conservative contender who is poised to win slowly but surely gets pulled down as his margin of victory disappears, and he vanishes into a whirlpool of magic ballots. (RELATED: What’s Happening in Los Angeles Is an Exercise in Brute-Force Politics)
This provides yet another reason for the U.S. Senate to pass the damn SAVE America Act already.
Senate GOP Leader John Thune of South Dakota is waiting for exactly…what?
SAVE would place major limits on the Democrats’ promiscuous distribution of no-excuse, mass mail-in ballots. It would finally end the “temporary,” “one-time-only” COVID-era practice of blasting unsolicited ballots, as if via fire hose, to every name on the voter rolls. Those sprayed with ballots have included foreign citizens, others who moved across town or out of state, and even Americans who relocated to Heaven or Hell. (RELATED: Senate GOP Needs New Leadership_
In fact, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told Just the News in March that the Justice Department scrutinized only 16 states and discovered “hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls.” In September 2020, the Public Interest Legal Foundation found 349,773 deceased people registered on 41 state voter rolls. In 2018, PILF concludes, 6,718 of these dead folks appear to have voted, down from 7,890 in 2016.
Rather than this fine mess, SAVE would reintroduce what Americans once called “absentee ballots.” Election officials would dispatch them only to the military, the homebound unwell, and those away on Election Day. And, yes, it should be Election Day, not Election Quarter.
SAVE also would require that state and local officials scrub voter rolls clean of ineligible, relocated, or deceased voters. Ballot-integrity expert Jay Valentine has given himself a virtual tracheotomy from fruitlessly repeating that election authorities absolutely must scrutinize not just fishy names, but also unqualified addresses:
Voters have registered at 9145 Mann Street, a vacant lot in Las Vegas. Photo: Public Interest Legal Foundation.
Voters must be registered at residences, where human beings actually live. So, no more “voters” enrolled at a gravel-strewn vacant lot in Las Vegas, another patch of dirt in Reno, an empty homeless shelter in Atlanta, commercial warehouses in Mississippi, or 9909 Jefferson Boulevard, the repurposed Culver City, California, back lot where Desilu Studios filmed CBS’s Hogan’s Heroes in the 1960s. (For real — in each of these instances and thousands more.)
Like a modern-day Cassandra, Valentine repeats this message via his Omega4America Substack and e-mail missives to honest-election activists: It is well past time for county clerks and state authorities to use quantum computing to cross-check names and, more important, addresses on voter rolls against the U.S. Postal Service’s change-of-residence registry, Social Security’s death lists, catalogs of confirmed U.S. citizens, records of certified illegal aliens, property-tax documents, building-permit applications, drivers licenses, rosters of felons who may not vote, and other relevant government forms.
Unqualified names can and should be challenged. However, Left-wing lawyers will rush in to defend every suspected fake voter, right down to those named Darth Vader or Daffy Duck. Such legal responses must be taken seriously and litigated by pro-clean-election attorneys, almost exclusively on the Right.
Nineteen “voters” are registered at this empty, rotting, Atlanta residence. Photo: Google Maps, March 2025.
But phony addresses have no constitutional rights. It’s far easier, faster, and more effective for election-integrity advocates to insist, for instance, on junking all 19 “voter” registrations at 850 Oak Street NW in Atlanta, specifically because it is a deserted, decaying house with busted toilets, collapsing ceilings, parched pipes, and zero residents.
The SAVE America Act would go far toward ending such Fourth World election conditions. It would also require voters to show photo ID at the polls and, before that, mandate proof of American citizenship before registration. No less than former Democrat President Jimmy Carter recommended U.S. citizenship verification. Confirming that voters are American is beyond farcical in California.
Bill Essayli, Esq., the U.S. attorney for greater Los Angeles, is appalled at the vast potential for vote fraud, given registration “standards” that are looser than a door hinge marinated in WD-40.
“California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising,” Essayli explained Sunday via X. These include, Essayli added: “Gym membership card, Employer ID card. Credit or debit card, Prescription drug label, Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants).” Sensing that something stinks statewide, Essayli has launched a full federal investigation into Golden State vote fraud. And not one shady ballot too soon.
Democrats treat the SAVE America Act’s universally popular reforms as if Republicans aspired to throw gasoline and lit matches at the Star-Spangled Banner, on solemn display in the Smithsonian Institution. But photo ID, U.S. citizens-only ballots, and pristine voter rolls leave foreign eyebrows perfectly flat. The Democrat Party is guilty of imposing on the Land of the Free an election system that Mexicans and Nigerians mock with derisive, totally justified laughter.
Sad, sick, and disgusting.
The Associated Press on Monday night projected that Nithya Raman would take second place against Mayor Bass. However, new ballots arrived on Tuesday night and still are being counted. Albeit faint, Pratt still has a political pulse. On Monday, via X, Pratt observed that “there’s still hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding, and LA officials have given us the next 3 weeks to count! Let’s git-r-dun!”
Indeed, as of Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles County Clerk reports that “The estimate of outstanding ballots to be processed is 148,100.” That office has scheduled vote-count updates through June 26 — 24 days after polls closed!
Spencer Pratt is likely going to be overtaken by far left Nithya Raman today. This graph shows the count on Election Day through last night.
Nithya did this by suddenly winning 1st in every new ballot drop.
North Korean “elections” have more self respect. Even they’d find it… pic.twitter.com/fL0nU5k8Ma
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 7, 2026
Raman currently has 229,576 votes, many of them statistically dubious. Pratt holds 207,757. Can Pratt find 21,820 votes among 148,100 uncounted ballots over the next 16 days, while Raman sits there like a bowl of cold noodles? Probable? No. Have stranger things happened? Yes — every day of the week!
AI-generated image by Deroy Murdock, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Jun 9, 2026
If the talented, refreshing, and inspiring Spencer Pratt somehow escapes the Democrats’ whirlpool of magic ballots, Hallelujah. Los Angeles deserves and needs his energy, ideas, and leadership.
However, if the magic ballots ultimately drown this Great Right Hope, then his dodgy defeat should catalyze a final, robust, and successful Republican push to pass the SAVE America Act and place it on President Donald J. Trump’s desk for signature.
Until that happy day for SAVE, the Right should focus on three words: “Fight, fight, fight!”
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Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.
