HUNTINGTON BEACH Mayor Pat Burns.
By Jim Tortolano
Orange County Tribune
The shadow of Proposition 50 hung over Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council as it hosted a presentation on alleged widespread voter fraud across the United States, California and Orange County.
That was followed by approval – on a 5-0 vote with two councilmembers (Don Kennedy and Chad Williams) absent – of a resolution by Mayor Pat Burns in favor of “immediate action to ensure a legally valid and transparent 2026 general election.”
“There’s been so much question the last several elections that it bothers me because of the importance of our republic and everything is that we have solid, trustworthy confident truth in your elections,” said Burns.
The resolution contained no specific action for the city council to take, but did criticize – indirectly – Proposition 50, a measure on the November ballot to redraw Congressional districts to create five new “winnable” seats for Democrats, in response to Texas’ action to take similar steps to assist Republicans.
A spokesperson for Unite4Freedom – who did not give her name – told the council, “We do have a special vote coming up in the redistricting and what’s going to be happening is Huntington Beach is going to be extremely at risk because they are going to be put into place with Long Beach and parts of Los Angeles, and the dissimilar cultures are now going to be represented by competing forces … and have a different approach … the law enforcement and crime enforcement is very different from what you going to need at the beach, considering what you’re going to need in Long Beach or some of these other locations that are more urban-based and the infrastructure is going to be extremely adverse.”
She added that “Huntington Beach is definitely in danger of being completely inundated by people who have different beliefs.”
Unite 4 Freedom is a volunteer organization that has alleged – without support from election officials – that millions of votes are fraudulent, incorrectly counted or discarded in elections regularly.
