California GOP in legal trouble for unofficial ballot drop boxes – CalMatters

At issue: Unofficial ballot drop boxes that the state GOP purchased and set up at conservative churches, party headquarters, gun shops and other likely Republican voter haunts across the state. Some of the drop boxes, first reported in detail by the Orange County Register, were affixed with the label Official Ballot Dropbox.

As all active registered voters are due to receive a ballot in the mail this election, Californians can cast their vote by mail, in person or at secure drop boxes. State law requires each county to set up a certain number of these drop boxes based on its size. 

These makeshift GOP collection points are not among them.

State Republican spokesperson Hector Barajas said the statewide ballot box operation was fully consistent with the 2016 state election law allowing voters to entrust someone else to deliver a ballot on their behalf. 

We didn t write the rules. The Democrats wrote the rules, he said. They set up the chessboard. We are just playing with the chessboard that they put in front of us. And now they re upset about it.

They are indeed. 

via calmatters.org

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