He has proposed legislation to require counties to automatically send mail ballots to all active registered voters (some already do) and to offer tracking services so voters can make sure their ballots are received. That's what Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), chairman of the Assembly Elections Committee, thinks too. This is exactly how every election should go, pandemic or not. So many Californians voted early ― motivated, perhaps, by the stories about possible mail delivery delays ― that election day was relatively calm, with only a few long lines reported around the state. Nearly 18 million Californians voted in this election, more than ever before. (In the end, the only potential large-scale voting fraud in California was perpetrated by the California Republican Party, which set up dozens of phony ballot drop boxes in violation of state law.) 3 election in California was held successfully, despite all the wild-eyed stories and false tales of mail ballot fraud spread by the president and his loyalists. The state also extended the grace period for mailed-in ballots to 17 days. Counties were directed to mail ballots to all voters, whether they requested one or not, and, with an onslaught of mail ballots expected, were allowed to start processing ballots extra early. 3 election, lawmakers acted to ensure that all active registered voters in California could participate without risking infection. When it became clear this spring that the pandemic was not likely to end before the Nov. But California would benefit by keeping at least one of them in place for good: mailing a ballot to every active registered voter in the state. Though it may be hard to imagine now, sometime in the not distant future, the emergency measures adopted this year to control the spread of COVID-19 will no longer be necessary.
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