Get Ready: California-Style Elections Are Coming to Your State

Get Ready: California-Style Elections Are Coming to Your State

https://pjmedia.com/election/get-ready-california-style-elections-are-coming-to-your-state/?utm_source=PJMCoffeeBreak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=January2019

Excerpt: If you thought the 2018 elections in California were a mess, you were right. Dangerous new election laws and lax practices contributed to that mess, and now they want the rest of the nation to suffer the way Californians do. First, the mess. Election Integrity Project, California (EIPCa), a group of concerned citizens in California, has been documenting problems in the state’s election system for years. We have done the hard, messy work on the ground to catalog the problems. California election officials and legislators have turned our elections into a free-for-all, with few safeguards, all in the name of “voter access." Recent initiatives include “top two” primary elections, automatic voter registration, allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections, allowing mail ballots to arrive after Election Day, rejecting voter ID, removing restrictions on who can handle and return mail ballots (aka ballot “harvesting”), same-day registration and voting, allowing voters to “cure” their mail ballot signature mismatches via the honor system and, in 2020, providing all registrants with mail ballots.