09 Jul

While some progressives are bullish about the outlook for the November election, Tatenda Musapatike surveys the political landscape and sees masses of unregistered voters who were supposed to be on the rolls by now, but for the pandemic. It is making her increasingly anxious, and she is not alone.Source: As voting rolls plunge amid pandemic, progressives try to reinvent the...

00:27 / vblog / Voter Registration
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18 Jun

The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic — and before the killing of George Floyd and so many others forced us yet again to confront the painful reality of systemic racism in America.Source: Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout...

00:27 / Technology / vblog / Voter Registration
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07 Nov

On November 6, the California Secretary of State released a Report of Registration, the first state tally since February 2019. All six of the qualified parties increased their share of the registration. The number of independent voters decreased, both as a percentage and in absolute numbers.Source: California Releases New Registration Data; All Qualified Parties Increase; Independent Voters Decrease...

19:27 / California / vblog / Voter Registration
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02 Oct

A Republican attorney filed a lawsuit on Tuesday demanding that two California agencies develop a better system to verify the citizenship of people who register to vote through the Department of Motor Vehicles. In the lawsuit filed in the U.S.Source: California isn’t doing enough to verify citizenship while registering voters, lawsuit says...

23:47 / California / RNLA / vblog / Voter Registration
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02 Oct

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Republican lawyer who has waged lawsuits on behalf of the Trump administration sued the state of California and its Department of Motor Vehicles Tuesday, saying the agency is failing to verify citizenship for voter registration.Source: GOP attorney sues California for alleged voter violations...

02:32 / California / election administration / vblog / Voter Registration
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17 Sep

On September 13, the California legislature passed AB 681. It lets voters change their party affiliation as late as primary day, without filling out a new voter registration form. It lets voters change their party by telephone, fax, or e-mail, as well as in person at the polls.Source: California Bill to Let Voters Change Their Party Immediately Before a Primary...

16:28 / California / parties / vblog / Voter Registration / y class
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10 Aug

Six California residents who were erroneously added onto the voter rolls voted in last year’s midterms, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday afternoon following a months-long investigation.Source: Six Californians who shouldn’t have been registered voted last year due to ‘DMV errors’...

01:24 / California / dmv / vblog / Voter Registration
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10 Aug

California’s ambitious effort to automate voter registration at Department of Motor Vehicle offices produced almost 84,000 duplicate records and more than twice that number with political party mistakes, according to an audit released Friday by state officials.Source: Nearly 84,000 duplicate voter records found in audit of California’s ‘Motor Voter’ system...

01:24 / California / dmv / vblog / Voter Registration
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