Voters will cast ballots on Tuesday in a statewide special election to decide Proposition 50, a measure that would authorize temporary changes…
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The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from their state Republican parties. The DOJ announced Friday it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions: Passaic County, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno counties in California "to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." Both states feature races of national prominence in an otherwise low-key election year — a governor's race in New Jersey and a congressional redistricting special election in California. Some leading Democrats in the states blasted the DOJ decision and vowed to ensure that voters would not be intimidated.
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President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is calling on Republicans to drop lawsuits targeting mail voting now that Donald Trump has embraced the method. The Republican National Committee has filed multiple lawsuits seeking to limit provisions of mailed ballots, including in states that allow ballots to arrive after Election Day as long as they were postmarked by then. For years, Trump has falsely alleging that mail voting is riddled with fraud. But Trump has started to urge his supporters to vote through the mail if it's convenient for them. Republicans say there's no contradiction between supporting mail voting and suing to make it more secure.
California is hailed as a national leader for voting access, but visually impaired voters and their advocates say they still face unnecessary barriers. They argue that people should be able to return ballots electronically. Disability advocates are asking a federal judge to compel Secretary of State Shirley Weber's office to allow voters who have difficulty using printed materials to return their ballots via fax in the November election. Weber's office declined to speak about the lawsuit, but opposed a 2022 bill that sought to let voters return ballots electronically. Weber cited security concerns including the threat of cyber attacks. The case is set to be heard this month in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
An additional 23,214 vote-by-mail ballots were received Wednesday by the San Mateo County Elections Office and remain to be processed, accordi…
