g with this mask thing. It's useless data in any case.

California has an interesting situation. Apparently some GOP entity has put up ballot collection boxes of their own. You didn't see that coming, did you? So there are these official-looking ballot collection boxes that are not trying to look like government entities, so they're not pretending they're the post office. It's just obviously a private GOP thing. And you can just throw your ballot in there. Do you trust that? Would you trust a private ballot collection box that's not a government mailbox? If you trust that you're really gullible.

Now I'm not going to say that the people who put them up there have bad intentions. I don't know. I'm just saying that I wouldn't put my ballot in a private ballot collection box. And if you're dumb enough to do that you shouldn't be voting. You're not smart enough to vote. If you put your ballot in Bob's collection box you're saying to yourself, well, it looks like they spelled all the words right on the collection box. Looks good enough to me. What could go wrong?

And so the government of California has declared that these things are illegal. But here's the funny part. How can it be illegal to have a box with some words on it? It couldn't possibly be illegal because it's not pretending to do anything or be anything other than what it is. It would certainly be illegal if it were pretending to be the US Postal Service. Right, that would be illegal. It would be illegal if they were claiming to be something they weren't. But it's claiming to be exactly what it is: a convenient way to have your ballot get picked up. Now I certainly wouldn't trust it but how is it illegal?

Let me ask you this. If I took a box, you know, just a box I could carry, and I knocked on your door and I said, hey, you know, I'm picking up some ballots and I can save you a trip to the mailbox if you like. You can throw your ballot in my box that's in my hand and I'll carry it over to the mailbox for you. I'll carry it to the post office. Would that be illegal? Well it depends on your state, right? If you live in a state where ballot harvesting is illegal, yes. Doesn't matter if you have a separate box. Doesn't matter if you knock on the door. If your state says you can't bring somebody else's ballots in, it's illegal. But in California apparently that's not illegal. It's not illegal to knock on the door and say can I take your ballot. So the state of California is trying to claim that these little boxes that do the same thing as knocking on the door — it's just a little bit more efficient. Why knock on the door if you're not ready? You know, wait till you're ready. You just put it in the box.

And the thing that's hilarious about this is that I'm pretty sure Democrats thought they had the advantage with this ballot harvesting stuff. And then the Republicans do what Republicans do. What is it the Republicans do that's better than what Democrats do consistently? They come up with better systems. If you're going to build something or manage something, call a Republican. Republicans are pretty good on systems. They're pretty good at setting up a mechanism, figuring out how to make something work. That's what they do, right? It's what they do. Democrats, their system looks a little bit like a CHOP or CHAZ. It looks a little bit more chaotic. So you don't want to trust the Democrats to set up a system.

So they set up this thing and the very first thing that happens is the Republicans in California come up with a superior system and they get these boxes built and distributed all over. And now the government's going to have to fight with what it means to be harvesting ballots. And as far as I know they're going to have a hard time declaring these things illegal because I don't think there's any law that says you can't have an accurately labeled box sitting on your lawn if it's accurately labeled. It's accurate.

So anyway, that's hilarious.

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