Cal-Incompetence

(NBC-LA story here)

Californians pride themselves on their technological prowess, efficiency, accuracy, and ability to "work smart". Unfortunately, such qualities appear to be limited to the private sector.

Sacramento Bee: More than 26,000 people over age 100 in the Golden State had blue disabled placards...But there are only about 8,000 people older than 100 in California. Centenarians represent only a fraction of the placard problem [bold added].

A California State Auditor report in April said the DMV needed to significantly beef up efforts to prevent fraud, noting that officials accept applications without required medical documentation, issue too many duplicates and fail to cancel the placards of people who have died.

Auditors estimated that several hundred thousand of the state’s three million placards were likely being used fraudulently.

Washington Times: Dirty voter rolls create situation ripe for polling-place scammers

the Election Integrity Project said...that, when inactive voters are factored in, an unrealistic 98 percent of eligible Californians are actually registered.

Combine an estimated 5 million inactive registrants, who have typically died or moved out of state, with California’s lack of a voter-identification requirement, and you have a scenario ripe for polling-place scammers intent on casting illegal ballots...

The report said that eight of California’s 58 counties now have more than 100 percent voter-registration rates, based on figures posted Feb. 10 by Secretary of State Alex Padilla on his website — a sign that some county clerks may not be keeping their lists current.

LA Times (2015): California, which gains $400 million in unclaimed assets a year, urged to find owners.

Every month, the state transfers all but $50,000 in the unclaimed property fund to the state's general fund budget. According to the governor's proposed spending plan, those revenues will add up to $442 million in revenue in the next budget year, the analyst's report stated.

Disability placards, voter registration rolls, and inactive bank accounts are the responsibility of different departments, the State Transportation Agency, the Secretary of State, and the Controller's Office, respectively.

I'd say it's a good thing that the CalExit movement has stalled, wouldn't you?