An official Orange County election ballot drop box is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., October 14, 2020. — Reuters pic
Padilla and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, both Democrats, said they were giving party officials until Thursday to comply with terms of the order or face legal action, including possible prosecution. The latest clash over drop boxes in California, a Democratic stronghold, appeared to turn the usual partisan dynamic on its head.Becerra and Padilla asserted that under state law, only local elections officials can legally operate drop boxes — secured, clearly marked, publicly placed receptacles where voters can submit their ballots rather than entrust them to the Postal Service or brave potentially crowded polling places on Election Day.
Those boxes, they said, were placed inside churches, party campaign offices and private venues of other participating entities, including gun shops and firing ranges, where voters can deposit ballots with attendants posted there to accept them. Those ballots, party officials say, are then turned over within 72 hours to county election offices, as state law requires.
A small, “isolated” number of the party's ballot boxes were briefly mislabelled as “official” — a violation corrected within hours, state Republican Party attorney Thomas Hiltachk said in a telephone conference call with reporters. Temporarily holding completed ballots “in a locked box at a church of local party headquarters is more secure than a party volunteer or paid operative holding harvested ballots collected from voters at a senior centre in the backseat of his or her car — though both are legal,” Hiltachk wrote.
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