# Badlands Daily: 7/24/26 - California's Ballot Switch, Elon's Pushback & Mamdani's Vote Bombshell

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-07-24T17:52:45+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-72426-californias-ballot-switch-elons-pushback-mamdanis-vote-bombshell/
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Duration seconds: 6877

## Resource

CannCon and Chris Paul open with California's Attorney General quietly rewording a voter ID ballot measure to sound far more restrictive than it actually is, and dig into why the polling on this issue is so lopsided in the first place. From there they play a clip of Elon Musk pushing back hard on a European interviewer's framing of mainstream border and spending policies as far right extremism. The back half turns to a genuinely stunning claim out of New York, where an election integrity researcher says a data review found hundreds of thousands of votes tied to people who simply do not exist and Social Security numbers flagged as impossible, numbers that exceed the mayoral race's entire margin of victory. They also touch on a wild trial clip with a language warning attached. Expect strong opinions and some real back and forth between the hosts.

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