Ghosts in the Machine: Nearly One in Five California Votes Are Unverifiable Phantoms
October 24, 2025
SACRAMENTO, CA —In a chilling revelation just ahead of Halloween, Unite4Freedom (U4F), a leading national organization dedicated to election transparency and civic education, has unveiled its latest Phantom Voter Study. Presented by Chairman Harry Haury during high-energy meetings with community leaders and volunteers across California, the report exposes a haunting flaw in the state’s election system: nearly 20% of votes cannot be verified.
This launch kicks off U4F’s October outreach series, empowering citizens, policymakers, and civic groups to grasp how election data is handled—and how to fortify transparency before the 2026 elections. Throughout the week, Haury led dynamic briefings in Southern and Northern California, unveiling U4F’s Solution Document— a bold, non-partisan blueprint for enhancing data integrity, voter verification, and public access to records. Participants were fired up to join local chapters, lend their expertise in tech or research, and fuel the nationwide push for trustworthy elections.
The study’s bombshell? A staggering 18.4% of California’s voters are “phantoms”—either nonexistent or ineligible under the law.
That translates to 2,965,861 inadmissible ballots, a massive bloc capable of flipping statewide races.
These findings, drawn from official certified election records, demand urgent scrutiny and action. As advocates gear up to contest Proposition 50—the redistricting ballot measure hitting voters in November 2025—U4F warns that millions of shadowy voter records could taint any outcome, especially those redrawing political maps. Without swift reforms, California’s elections will linger in a fog of doubt, undermining the very foundation of democracy.
“This isn’t a spooky story—it’s a stark reality,” said Harry Haury, Chairman of Unite4Freedom. “Our election system is infested with phantoms that erode public trust. Verification isn’t optional; it’s the exorcism we need to banish uncertainty and ensure accuracy.” This systemic breakdown isn’t a minor glitch—it’s a crisis screaming for solutions. As Halloween nears, U4F calls on all Californians and to confront these ghosts and reclaim the integrity of the ballot box.
California 2024 Phantom Voter Report
This study measures suspected fraudulent registration and voting in the 2024 election in California. The study uses the Unite4Freedom copywritten process for performing comprehensive identity verification using commercially available fraud-prevention tools. A randomized sample of 609 voter records, taken from the entire population of 16 million voters in the 2024 election, was generated based on a 90% confidence interval, a precision of 0.02 and a predicted prevalence of P = 0.1.
The first check of the data is to see if the voter “exists” in any of the identity verification databases used and if there are address or other compliance issues. Only the people who pass the first check are run through the SSN check. Identities that fail one of the checks are not run through additional checks to ensure they are not “double counted.
” When extrapolating the sample results to the population of vote records in the 2024 Election in California, the following was found:
Credentialed programmers and cybersecurity and election experts conducted the analysis using official state and county records received from their custodians. A private investigative firm assisted, producing law enforcement compliant evidence of suspected illegal voting and election misconduct.
* Voter Not In Compliance: Records were found to have deficiencies, including being outside the election window, meaning if they have any documented affiliation with the address provided, it does not match the timing of the election, or the address is unverifiable meaning either the address itself is not valid (meaning there is no such place—no building with the address in question) or there is no record of the person in question ever being associated with the address—in any government database.
**Vote Missing a Voter: The difference between the certified total ballots cast according to California Statement of Vote, official certified election results, versus the number of votes appearing in an official copy of the California Voter database provided by CA SOS, dated December 16, 2024
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