California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes Around State
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to election fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.
The California Republican Party has admitted responsibility for placing more than 50 deceptively labeled %u201Cofficial%u201D drop boxes for mail-in ballots in Los Angeles, Fresno and Orange Counties %u2014 an action that state officials said was illegal and could lead to election fraud.
The dark gray metal boxes have been popping up over the past two weeks near churches, gun shops and Republican Party offices, mostly in conservative areas of a deep-blue state, affixed with a white paper label identifying them as either an %u201COfficial Ballot Drop off Box%u201D or a %u201CBallot Drop Box.%u201D
To the average voter, they are virtually indistinguishable from drop-off sites sanctioned by the state, which are governed by strict regulations intended to prevent the partisan manipulation of ballots.
The actions of the largely marginalized state party come at a moment when Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a bitter national struggle over voting rights, with President Trump%u2019s allies accusing Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere of undermining the integrity of the electoral process by expanding absentee voting and other measures to increase ballot access.
And last week, a supporter of a Republican congressional candidate in Orange County, Michelle Steel, posted a picture of himself on Twitter dropping off a ballot at one of the party%u2019s boxes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-gop-drop-boxes.html
I think it should say herself instead of himself.
I am not surprised with the GOP. And the joke continues!
I guess be careful when you drop off your ballots.
Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to election fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.
The California Republican Party has admitted responsibility for placing more than 50 deceptively labeled %u201Cofficial%u201D drop boxes for mail-in ballots in Los Angeles, Fresno and Orange Counties %u2014 an action that state officials said was illegal and could lead to election fraud.
The dark gray metal boxes have been popping up over the past two weeks near churches, gun shops and Republican Party offices, mostly in conservative areas of a deep-blue state, affixed with a white paper label identifying them as either an %u201COfficial Ballot Drop off Box%u201D or a %u201CBallot Drop Box.%u201D
To the average voter, they are virtually indistinguishable from drop-off sites sanctioned by the state, which are governed by strict regulations intended to prevent the partisan manipulation of ballots.
The actions of the largely marginalized state party come at a moment when Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a bitter national struggle over voting rights, with President Trump%u2019s allies accusing Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere of undermining the integrity of the electoral process by expanding absentee voting and other measures to increase ballot access.
And last week, a supporter of a Republican congressional candidate in Orange County, Michelle Steel, posted a picture of himself on Twitter dropping off a ballot at one of the party%u2019s boxes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-gop-drop-boxes.html
I think it should say herself instead of himself.
I am not surprised with the GOP. And the joke continues!
I guess be careful when you drop off your ballots.