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Proposed Bill to ID Recall Petitioners Withdrawn From California Senate

Proposed Bill to ID Recall Petitioners Withdrawn From California Senate Proposed legislation that would have allowed California politicians facing the threat of recall to identify and contact petition signers has been shelved. Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who authored Senate Bill 663 (SB 663), pulled it from consideration on April 20. The proposed legislation would have given politicians access to the personal information of petition signers so they could be contacted to see if they wanted to change their minds. Though Newman made it clear the proposed changes would not have applied to the current petition to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill sparked a lengthy debate in California’s Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments on April 12, when opponents suggested that giving politicians access to the personal information of petition signers was an invasion of privacy rights and could lead to retaliation.

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California Lawmakers Debate Privacy Rights of Recall Petitioners

California Lawmakers Debate Privacy Rights of Recall Petitioners Proposed legislation in California that would allow targets of future recall movements to identify and contact petition signers to potentially change their minds sparked lengthy debate in a recent state Senate committee meeting. Senate Bill 663 (SB 663) would provide data access to recall targets, allowing them to contact petition signers and correct any potential misleading information they might have received from signature gatherers. Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who authored the legislation, said voters are often tricked into signing recall petitions and should be more easily able to withdraw their signatures if they feel they’ve been deceived.

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California mulls relaxing rules about ballot signatures

SACRAMENTO, Calif. California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature is considering whether to make it more difficult for local election officials to reject ballots because a voter’s signature doesn’t exactly match what’s on file. Voters who cast ballots by mail must now sign their ballot. Election officials then compare that signature to the one in the voter’s registration file. Election officials can disqualify ballots if the signatures don’t match. But comparing signatures can be tricky because people don’t always sign their name the same way. It’s a bigger issue after the November election, when more than 86% of votes in California were vote-by-mail ballots.

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California mulls relaxing rules about ballot signatures

California mulls relaxing rules about ballot signatures
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California mulls relaxing rules about ballot signatures

California mulls relaxing rules about ballot signatures
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