the los angeles tes attributes the high voter turnout to, quote, the pandemic inspired decision to mail a ballot to each of california s 22.3 million voters. that process has now become the law of the land in california. yesterday,california s democratic governor gavin newsom signed into law bill that permanently requires a vote-by-mail ballot be mailed to every active registered voter in the state of california. joining us now is the california democratic assembly member mark berman, chairman of the elections committee. he wrote the law that governo newsom signed yesterda thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. this turnout that you got throw the mail-in process in this last election was a real lesson in voter partipation, record highs. i think it was somewhere aroun 80%. 87% of those ballots were the