Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice sued California, along with 22 other states and Washington, D.C., for access to their full, unredacted voter files. That includes driver's license, social security numbers and other sensitive data. DOJ officials said they needed the data to assess whether states were properly maintaining their voter rolls and ensuring "only American citizens are voting, only one time," as Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a social media post in December.
The notice said he needed to provide proof of citizenship such as a copy of a U.S. passport, birth certificate or naturalization certificate within 30 days. Otherwise, his registration would be canceled, though it said he could be immediately reinstated if he showed that documentation at a later date. Nel, who was born in South Africa, became a U.S. citizen as a teenager, more than a decade ago.
Voter registration has increased over the past decade since California began automatically registering motorists to vote when they applied for or renewed a driver license, the researchers said, following a similar move by Oregon. This change made citizens' right to vote not different from other rights, like free speech and due process, which do not require opt in' processes, said IGS Co-Director G. Cristina Mora. Eliminating such voting barriers has increased voter participation and diversity, the effects of which we are witnessing now.
The mayoral election is around the corner in my hometown of Montreal, so I wanted to confirm whether I was registered to vote at my current address. What I naively assumed would be a simple task turned out to require a trip to a local community centre. I gave my name, they flipped through a binder, and gave me the thumbs up within 3 seconds of arriving.
“Californians have been uniquely targeted by the Trump Administration,” Newsom said in signing a bill authorizing the ballot measure. “Thanks to the hard work of the California legislature, they will have a choice to fight back.”
California residents who are eligible can register and vote through Election Day. But if you want a ballot mailed to your door beforehand, you'll have to register online before the deadline at midnight on Monday. (You can also check your voter registration status at the link above.) After the deadline on Monday night?
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On Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors directed staff to cross-reference voter rolls with pet registration data in the county in order to make sure there are no four-legged voters with names like Fido, Fifi, Spot, Sparky or Lucky casting ballots in the next special election in November. "How do we check that dogs and cats or whatever are not on our (voter) rolls?" Supervisor Dan Wagner asked during the meeting Tuesday.
Tom Lopach, president and CEO of the Voter Participation Center, a nonprofit focused on registering people of color, unmarried women, and young voters-three groups that make up what the organization calls the New American Majority-described the severity of the situation to NPQ: "We've seen an unprecedented effort to reduce access to voting on so many levels." He noted that executive orders, federal and state legislation, court rulings, and policy and staffing changes across government agencies form "a multi-pronged attack on voting."
A notice from Congregation Shaare Zion in Gravesend obtained by The Post warns that the election's outcome could pose "serious problems" throughout the city and left the synagogue "no choice" but to require proof of voter registration for tickets to Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services. Mamdani isn't directly mentioned in the announcement, but a source with the Orthodox synagogue said the move was directed at the Democratic mayoral nominee.
Gavin Newsom's gambit, which is what it is, is going to disenfranchize millions of California voters because they all supported their redistricting commission, the Citizens Redistricting Commission. He has to traverse and trample upon or shred the state constitution to do this.
The League of Women Voters of Cupertino-Sunnyvale is inviting residents to think nationally and help out locally on National Voter Registration Day. The league needs volunteers to help at its voter registration and information table on Sept. 16 at the Cupertino Library. Visit https://bit.ly/3UuWkrQ to sign up for a shift to help with voter registration, voter education and spreading the word about the league. Training will be provided. For questions, email Pam at voterservice@lwvcs.org.
Jobs involving partisan or nonpartisan voter registration, voter assistance at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker—whether this takes place on or off campus—involve political activity because these activities support the process of voting which is a quintessential political activity whereby voters formally support partisan or nonpartisan political candidates by casting ballots.
