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"content": "\u003cp>Election officials across California are breathing a sigh of relief: An election that combined unprecedented changes and unmatched scrutiny amid a global pandemic resulted in historic levels of participation and few widespread issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some features of this year’s vote will hopefully go down as historical aberrations, like poll workers in protective gear and masked voters physically distanced in voting locations stocked with hand sanitizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other alterations brought on by the coronavirus — such as the expansion of voting by mail and the shift away from assigned polling places — could spur long lasting changes to the way in which Californians cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with KQED, more than a dozen election officials and voting advocates agreed that California’s recent election in the midst of a pandemic was a success, despite a tight timeline for changes and a few hiccups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is one of the smoothest elections that I’ve had,” said Neal Kelley, registrar of voters for Orange County. “I really believe we were as best prepared for a pandemic as we could ever be.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Perfect Storm’ Ends With Record Participation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the pandemic merely accelerated voting changes already in the works under Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly three-quarters of voters received vote-by-mail ballots even before the pandemic. And 15 counties had previously abandoned precinct polling locations in favor of the Voters Choice Act model — sending a ballot to every voter and opening county-wide vote centers where any voter could cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election officials faced unprecedented pressures in 2020: The logistical issues brought on by the virus were combined with attacks on the voting process by national Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a perfect storm,” said Padilla, who added that the increased focus on election administration did have a positive effect: It sharpened the public’s attention to voting rules and deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it helped increase registration and turnout as a result, then I think that is great for democracy at the end of the day,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State\"]‘Despite the pandemic, this turned out to be a very successful election year and could very well serve as a model, not just for statewide adoption going forward, but for states across the country.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, counties finally had the money they needed to conduct elections, through funding from the federal CARES Act, said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And expanding vote-by-mail to every voter allowed advocates to broadcast one set of instructions across the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We never had the ability before this election to provide that kind of uniform message to all voters,” Alexander said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result was record participation: More than 16 million Californians cast ballots, with three-quarters of votes cast before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are already eyeing the possibility of making some of the pandemic-related changes permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voting experts caution that there is still work to do to reduce roadblocks to voting, like lines, confusion and language barriers. They hope the state Legislature, freed from election-year deadlines, can carefully consider any consequences for\u003cb>\u003c/b> voters with limited English proficiency, infrequent voters and others at risk of disenfranchisement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If we are going to continue to make changes to electoral models, we should not do it in a rushed way as we were forced to do this year,” said Julia Marks, voting rights attorney at \u003c/span>Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11847168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45623_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Voters drop off their mail-in ballots at the Chase Center official ballot drop-off location on Oct. 31, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45623_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45623_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45623_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45623_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45623_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters drop off their mail-in ballots at the Chase Center official ballot drop-off location on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Changing Approaches With ‘Clock Ticking’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s March 3 primary was largely unaffected by the spread of COVID-19, but weeks later, the state was in lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, introduced legislation to mail every registered voter a ballot, and subsequent legislation allowed California counties to consolidate voting locations, if they agreed to offer three days of early voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, voting by mail became a political lightening rod, as President Donald Trump blasted the practice with unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California, the bill expanding mail voting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825137/state-legislature-approves-bill-to-mail-all-california-voters-a-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received bipartisan support\u003c/a>. In recent years, California voters of both parties have embraced voting by mail.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think the transition to sending every voter a ballot wasn’t as big a challenge as it was in some other states,” said Raúl Macías, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process still required delicate coordination between state officials and county registrars, who are ultimately in charge of local elections. Roughly two dozen counties decided to cut down on voting locations, with 17 jettisoning assigned polling places for the first time in favor of countywide voting hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County registrars described weekly meetings with Padilla’s staff, along with l\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ate night and weekend conversations to ensure a smooth transition.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nonprofits and labor groups successfully pressured lawmakers to maintain a baseline requirement for in-person voting. They argued that Black and Latino Californians are less likely to vote by mail than white Californians, and that in-person voting is crucial for voters with disabilities or language access needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“I think Secretary Padilla deserves a lot of credit for the leadership he showed to bring folks together to try to come up with a model for November,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macías\u003c/span>, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/21/opinion-california-needs-safe-in-person-voting-during-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among the voices calling\u003c/a> for the state to maintain in-person voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832331/newsom-signs-plan-for-polling-place-changes-in-face-of-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed off on new regulations\u003c/a> setting minimum requirements for in-person voting, as counties scrambled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831335/all-hands-on-deck-as-california-election-officials-struggle-to-find-pandemic-safe-polling-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find voting locations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recruit poll workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking so fast to November,” said John Arntz, director of San Francisco’s Department of Elections, who said local officials are typically “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">planning six, seven, eight months before an election.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11847171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election staff are trained at the San Mateo County Elections Office on Oct. 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Californians Embrace Expanded Voting by Mail and Early Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Election officials feared that many longtime poll workers, traditionally retirees, would stay home during the pandemic. And many houses of worship and schools were reluctant to open their doors to voters when their own operations were in flux because of COVID-19 restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the extra funding from Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-lebron-james-elections-michelle-obama-7bb8edd08e32a77b350d5cfc5512b3b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">partnerships with professional sports venues \u003c/a>and statewide poll worker recruitment drives left \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2020-general/butte-county-waiver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only one county\u003c/a>, Butte, unable to meet the state’s requirements for in-person voting services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We had thousands more people volunteer to be poll workers than we could actually assign,” Arntz said. “It was amazing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most important factor in the smooth election was that Californians bought into voting by mail and early voting at record levels, easing the burden on Election Day staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Elections Project\u003c/a>, more than 12 million Californians voted before Election Day, with upwards of 80% using their mail-in ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties, just 6-7% of voters opted to cast a ballot in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as ballots arrived, election workers were able to immediately prepare them for counting and avoid a backlog of ballots, thanks to a new state law permitting early ballot processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That took that pressure off,” said Kelley, who said despite “massive” last minute poll worker cancellations in Orange County, “we were still able to handle that volume without any issues really at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mail-in ballots go through a machine that photographs the back of each envelope at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Voters Still Faced Issues in Some Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say problems were entirely avoided at the polls. Election officials and voting advocates reported long lines in Fresno, Merced, Riverside, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Santa Clara counties. Spacing was to blame in many locations, as social distancing requirements limited the number of voters who could enter the facilities and cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s really what caused the lines,” said Brandi Orth, Fresno County clerk and registrar of voters and president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials. “We just couldn’t get as many people physically in the locations as we could in March.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Imperial and Kern counties, voters who arrived at polling places without their vote-by-mail ballots, expecting to vote in-person, were forced to cast provisional ballots, said Julia Gomez, attorney at the ACLU of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the counties lacked the ability to check in real time if a voter’s mail-in ballot had already been cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Going forward we could avoid this problem with more public education and making sure that these counties have the technology,” Gomez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What’s Next for Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In future elections, the state could also do more to expand language assistance for voters who lack English proficiency, such as Somali speakers in San Diego, Gomez said. A 2019 lawsuit forced the state to provide election materials in 14 additional languages this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the wish list of some county officials: A revision of the state’s ballot collection laws, a hotbed of partisan debate. In October, state and local Republican parties \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842237/battle-heats-up-over-legal-challenge-to-unofficial-gop-drop-boxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">created controversial private drop boxes\u003c/a> — some labeled “official” — that they argued followed state law allowing a designated person to deliver a voter’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States including Minnesota and New Jersey have limits on the number of ballots a single person can collect, while Oregon requires that all private drop boxes be clearly labeled as unofficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as more voters choose to vote by mail, counties will have to find solutions for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837810/study-finds-young-voters-more-likely-to-have-mail-ballots-rejected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">growing number of ballots that are rejected, \u003c/a>often because of an issue with the voter’s signature. One solution could be to scan and process a voter’s ballot while they are present, as Shasta County did this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond addressing the issues that voters faced this year, lawmakers and election officials anticipate that many of the changes to voting brought on by COVID-19 could become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Despite the pandemic, this turned out to be a very successful election year and could very well serve as a model, not just for statewide adoption going forward, but for states across the country,” Padilla said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Assemblyman Berman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846789/who-should-get-the-coronavirus-vaccine-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced that he will introduce legislation\u003c/a> to mail every registered voter a ballot in all future elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think it is important to move in the direction of making this permanent because more and more voters are getting used to the convenience of voting by mail,” Berman said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many counties, including Alameda, San Francisco and Sonoma, may opt in to the Voters Choice Act in future elections and leave neighborhood polling places in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the biggest hurdle is the current requirement to open vote centers for 11 days before the election which many registrars see as a waste of money for the amount of foot traffic they anticipate that far in advance of Election Day. This year, that requirement was reduced to three days of early voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, election officials in California disagree over the future need for in-person voting, given voters’ increasing preference for voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berman said he opposes eliminating in-person voting in California, and advocates argue that voting locations are essential for voters who aren’t comfortable with mail-in voting, along with those who require language assistance at the polls. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under the hybrid system used this fall, counties are “doing two elections in parallel,” said Scott Konopasek, assistant registrar of voters in Contra Costa County. He said voting by mail cost his county nearly twice as much as in-person voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You’re doing an in-person election as if everyone’s going to show up in-person, and then you’re doing a vote-by-mail election as if everyone is going to vote by mail,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, counties could tap the extra funding made available by Congress for pandemic-related election preparations. But as they prepare for 2022, local officials could be forced to reckon with tighter state budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If you want to keep that [voter turnout] increase then you need to be looking hard and fast at providing the options for counties to successfully implement some version of this process that we just did,” said Joe Holland, registrar of voters in Santa Barbara County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Sure elections are expensive, but how darn important is it?” he added. “What’s a more important government function than securing our democracy?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process still required delicate coordination between state officials and county registrars, who are ultimately in charge of local elections. Roughly two dozen counties decided to cut down on voting locations, with 17 jettisoning assigned polling places for the first time in favor of countywide voting hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County registrars described weekly meetings with Padilla’s staff, along with l\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ate night and weekend conversations to ensure a smooth transition.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nonprofits and labor groups successfully pressured lawmakers to maintain a baseline requirement for in-person voting. They argued that Black and Latino Californians are less likely to vote by mail than white Californians, and that in-person voting is crucial for voters with disabilities or language access needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“I think Secretary Padilla deserves a lot of credit for the leadership he showed to bring folks together to try to come up with a model for November,” said \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macías\u003c/span>, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/21/opinion-california-needs-safe-in-person-voting-during-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among the voices calling\u003c/a> for the state to maintain in-person voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832331/newsom-signs-plan-for-polling-place-changes-in-face-of-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed off on new regulations\u003c/a> setting minimum requirements for in-person voting, as counties scrambled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831335/all-hands-on-deck-as-california-election-officials-struggle-to-find-pandemic-safe-polling-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find voting locations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recruit poll workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking so fast to November,” said John Arntz, director of San Francisco’s Department of Elections, who said local officials are typically “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">planning six, seven, eight months before an election.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11847171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45359_001_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election staff are trained at the San Mateo County Elections Office on Oct. 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Californians Embrace Expanded Voting by Mail and Early Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Election officials feared that many longtime poll workers, traditionally retirees, would stay home during the pandemic. And many houses of worship and schools were reluctant to open their doors to voters when their own operations were in flux because of COVID-19 restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the extra funding from Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-lebron-james-elections-michelle-obama-7bb8edd08e32a77b350d5cfc5512b3b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">partnerships with professional sports venues \u003c/a>and statewide poll worker recruitment drives left \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2020-general/butte-county-waiver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only one county\u003c/a>, Butte, unable to meet the state’s requirements for in-person voting services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We had thousands more people volunteer to be poll workers than we could actually assign,” Arntz said. “It was amazing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most important factor in the smooth election was that Californians bought into voting by mail and early voting at record levels, easing the burden on Election Day staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Elections Project\u003c/a>, more than 12 million Californians voted before Election Day, with upwards of 80% using their mail-in ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties, just 6-7% of voters opted to cast a ballot in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as ballots arrived, election workers were able to immediately prepare them for counting and avoid a backlog of ballots, thanks to a new state law permitting early ballot processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That took that pressure off,” said Kelley, who said despite “massive” last minute poll worker cancellations in Orange County, “we were still able to handle that volume without any issues really at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45583_026_KQED_SanFrancisco_VotingCenter_10302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mail-in ballots go through a machine that photographs the back of each envelope at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Voters Still Faced Issues in Some Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say problems were entirely avoided at the polls. Election officials and voting advocates reported long lines in Fresno, Merced, Riverside, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Santa Clara counties. Spacing was to blame in many locations, as social distancing requirements limited the number of voters who could enter the facilities and cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s really what caused the lines,” said Brandi Orth, Fresno County clerk and registrar of voters and president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials. “We just couldn’t get as many people physically in the locations as we could in March.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Imperial and Kern counties, voters who arrived at polling places without their vote-by-mail ballots, expecting to vote in-person, were forced to cast provisional ballots, said Julia Gomez, attorney at the ACLU of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the counties lacked the ability to check in real time if a voter’s mail-in ballot had already been cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Going forward we could avoid this problem with more public education and making sure that these counties have the technology,” Gomez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What’s Next for Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In future elections, the state could also do more to expand language assistance for voters who lack English proficiency, such as Somali speakers in San Diego, Gomez said. 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Termed out in 2022, Padilla, like any career politician, is no doubt thinking about his next political move and is widely thought to be eyeing a U.S. Senate seat, like the one which would become available if Kamala Harris becomes vice president, earning her a spot in history in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Padilla is widely considered to be pondering his climb up the political ladder, some are focusing on how that ambition may influence the job he’s doing now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some election watchdogs wonder if California would be better served by having a nonpartisan or appointed Secretary of State to remove any questions about partisan leanings or political decisions in what is fundamentally supposed to be a job free of politicking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a Secretary of State in a way to be more like a judge, to make decisions based on the law and the facts, to make decisions a little bit removed from political pressure,” said Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She once chaired the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, and said it’s important for election officials to be one step removed from politics whenever possible “so that we know if there is a tough election-related call that it’s not made because of partisan affiliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades the Secretary of State position was a sleepy job, largely beyond public scrutiny. That changed in 1970, when Jerry Brown won the office and used it as a platform to strengthen campaign finance disclosure and increase transparency in the electoral process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" U.C. Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen\"]‘If I had a few million dollars, I would try to qualify a measure for the California ballot that would make the Secretary of State’s position a nonpartisan office.’[/pullquote]Four years later, Brown rode the position into the governor’s office, winning the job at the age of 36. Ever since then politicians have seen the office as a potential launching pad to higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Secretary State’s office becomes a stepping stone to other office, it’s inevitable that it’s going to serve a kind of partisan purpose. And I think that that disserves the voters,” said U.C. Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen, one of the nation’s leading election law experts. Hasen said the job should be above politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not describe the current Secretary of State. Padilla regularly endorses candidates for office and this year he has campaign committees to raise money for three statewide propositions, including ones to end the ban on affirmative action (Prop. 16) and another (Prop. 18) to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The Secretary of State] should be someone whose allegiance is first and foremost to the integrity of the election system. I certainly shouldn’t be endorsing candidates or serving on their committees,” Hasen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Padilla has focused on lowering barriers to voting in California and has had to help implement a raft of new state laws doing just that. In the process, he’s been sued by Republicans who say he’s failed to rid voter rolls of dead or duplicated voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you’re a Republican, you probably see Alex Padilla as really supporting Democratic causes. If you’re a Democrat, you probably see Alex Padilla is doing what he should be doing, which is expanding the ability of people to easily vote to make sure that the barriers to vote are very low,” said Loyola Law School’s Jessica Levinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 Padilla endorsed Hillary Clinton for president which she won over Sen. Bernie Sanders. At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that year, supporters of Sanders were furious at Padilla — shouting him down at a delegation breakfast — and claimed he had disadvantaged Sanders in the California primary.[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is episodes like that one that make Hasen, the law professor, say he would like to see the Secretary of State nominated by the governor, rather than be elected on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had a few million dollars, I would try to qualify a measure for the California ballot that would make the Secretary of State’s position a nonpartisan office,” Hasen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’d like to see is have the governor nominate someone who is above politics to run the election system and have that person confirmed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate and the Assembly. 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Since about 80 percent of voters in the county are already used to voting by mail, he doesn’t think the switch to an entirely vote-by-mail election will be all that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve done for Westminster is we’ve actually sent out a communication to every single voter in that jurisdiction,” he said. “We would do the same thing for any upcoming election as well, to let them know, ‘Hey, here’s the options for you’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary, Kelley said, Orange County for the first time allowed disabled and overseas voters to electronically mark a ballot online and then mail it in — and that option is being expanded in the upcoming election to anyone affected by the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the credit of the state, and particularly the secretary of state, they’ve already put together a working group looking forward to November, how we’re gonna meet those challenges. So those discussions are just now starting to take place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Election 2020\" tag=\"election-2020\"]Padilla, however, said that other states may not be in as good shape as California, and he slammed Congress for not putting more than $400 million in the $2 trillion stimulus legislation signed by President Trump on Friday. California is expected to get $36.2 million from that allocation of federal funds to address voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the model is very clear in terms of how to best serve the voters across the country as we prepare for the November general election: vastly increased vote by mail, vastly increased early voting opportunities, vastly expanded online registration in states that don’t have it already,” Padilla said. “Unfortunately, it was a missed opportunity by Congress to do exactly that. 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"content": "\u003cp>Technical issues plagued voting sites throughout California on Tuesday, including in the nation’s most populous county, where long lines and an overloaded new voting system prompted a legal complaint from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County rolled out a $300 million election system that raised concerns about technical and security defects even before glitches caused frustration and confusion at polling places. Sanders asked for voting centers to stay open an extra two hours, saying voters were denied their constitutional right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804553/we-get-it-we-want-election-results-too-but-its-going-to-be-awhile,Don't expect a definitive presidential primary winner tonight\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804529/help-my-candidate-dropped-out-all-your-super-tuesday-voting-questions-answered,Help! My Candidate Dropped Out: All Your Super Tuesday Voting Questions, Answered\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/GettyImages-1204945352-1020x683.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, whose primary Sanders went on to win, anyone in line by 8 p.m. can cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, election workers in 15 counties, including Fresno, Napa and Sacramento, faced technical problems connecting to the statewide voter registration database, said Sam Mahood, spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there was no evidence of malicious activity but did not explain what caused the failure. Mahood also said the secretary of state’s website experienced intermittent outages due to higher-than-normal traffic and that technicians added server capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among 14 states that held presidential primary contests on Super Tuesday, and voters in the most populous state also weighed in on congressional races, legislative seats and a statewide school bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, which has more than a quarter of the state’s 20 million registered voters, electronic pollbooks operated slowly because so many voters were trying to use them at the same time, said Mike Sanchez, a spokesman for the county registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some locations saw delays of two hours or more, including at the University of Southern California and in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint from the Sanders campaign reported a wait exceeding four hours in one location and check-in stations and voting machines that were not working. It requested vote centers stay open until 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terina Keresoma, a spokeswoman for the registrar’s office, said she could not comment on the complaint other than to say people in line by 8 p.m. would be allowed to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technicians added more devices in some polling places to speed up lines, the registrar’s office said earlier. There was no indication of security breaches with the pollbooks, which are hooked up to the state’s voter database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long lines in Los Angeles County prompt Sanders complaint\u003cbr>\nBy JANIE HAR\u003cbr>\n57 minutes ago\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 of 11\u003cbr>\nVoters wait on line at a polling station at the University of Southern California on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Some California voters are waiting in long lines because of technical glitches connecting to the statewide voter database or too many users trying to cast ballots at once. The secretary of state’s office said election workers in 15 counties could not connect to the statewide voter registration database on Super Tuesday but that the issues have been resolved. (AP Photo/Stefanie Dazio)\u003cbr>\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technical issues plagued voting sites throughout California on Tuesday, including in the nation’s most populous county, where long lines and an overloaded new voting system prompted a legal complaint from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County rolled out a $300 million election system that raised concerns about technical and security defects even before glitches caused frustration and confusion at polling places. Sanders asked for voting centers to stay open an extra two hours, saying voters were denied their constitutional right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, whose primary Sanders went on to win, anyone in line by 8 p.m. can cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, election workers in 15 counties, including Fresno, Napa and Sacramento, faced technical problems connecting to the statewide voter registration database, said Sam Mahood, spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there was no evidence of malicious activity but did not explain what caused the failure. Mahood also said the secretary of state’s website experienced intermittent outages due to higher-than-normal traffic and that technicians added server capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among 14 states that held presidential primary contests on Super Tuesday, and voters in the most populous state also weighed in on congressional races, legislative seats and a statewide school bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, which has more than a quarter of the state’s 20 million registered voters, electronic pollbooks operated slowly because so many voters were trying to use them at the same time, said Mike Sanchez, a spokesman for the county registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some locations saw delays of two hours or more, including at the University of Southern California and in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint from the Sanders campaign reported a wait exceeding four hours in one location and check-in stations and voting machines that were not working. It requested vote centers stay open until 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terina Keresoma, a spokeswoman for the registrar’s office, said she could not comment on the complaint other than to say people in line by 8 p.m. would be allowed to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technicians added more devices in some polling places to speed up lines, the registrar’s office said earlier. There was no indication of security breaches with the pollbooks, which are hooked up to the state’s voter database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC students said the delays appeared to be at check-in, where voters either needed to register for the first time or get a provisional ballot because they live outside Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimmy Huber, 22, of Whittier in LA County, said there weren’t enough workers checking in voters. 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(AP Photo/Stefanie Dazio)\u003cbr>\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technical issues plagued voting sites throughout California on Tuesday, including in the nation’s most populous county, where long lines and an overloaded new voting system prompted a legal complaint from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County rolled out a $300 million election system that raised concerns about technical and security defects even before glitches caused frustration and confusion at polling places. Sanders asked for voting centers to stay open an extra two hours, saying voters were denied their constitutional right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, whose primary Sanders went on to win, anyone in line by 8 p.m. can cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, election workers in 15 counties, including Fresno, Napa and Sacramento, faced technical problems connecting to the statewide voter registration database, said Sam Mahood, spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there was no evidence of malicious activity but did not explain what caused the failure. Mahood also said the secretary of state’s website experienced intermittent outages due to higher-than-normal traffic and that technicians added server capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among 14 states that held presidential primary contests on Super Tuesday, and voters in the most populous state also weighed in on congressional races, legislative seats and a statewide school bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, which has more than a quarter of the state’s 20 million registered voters, electronic pollbooks operated slowly because so many voters were trying to use them at the same time, said Mike Sanchez, a spokesman for the county registrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some locations saw delays of two hours or more, including at the University of Southern California and in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint from the Sanders campaign reported a wait exceeding four hours in one location and check-in stations and voting machines that were not working. 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The conditional certification was contingent on several defects being remedied — after Tuesday’s primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Beverly Hills, city spokesman Keith Sterling estimated people were waiting two hours or more. The city of 35,000 has sued LA County over the new voting system’s user interface, calling it severely flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible explanation for long lines at some places is that the new system allows people, for the first time, to vote wherever they like in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of frustration, (and) people walk away. I don’t know if they’ll come back. I hope they do,” Beverly Hills City Council member Julian Gold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues with the secretary of state’s office slowed down operations at Contra Costa County near San Francisco into the evening, said Scott Konopasek, assistant registrar of voters. 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"content": "\u003cp>California voters can breathe a sigh of relief — the Democratic debacle in Iowa will probably NOT be repeated here come Super Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't mean we'll know who won the most delegates in the Golden State on March 3 — that answer could take weeks after Election Day to sort out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can both be true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rusty Hicks, California Democratic Party chairman\"]'Everyone has to walk into Election Day understanding that there will be a significant portion of the vote that is not available, that is not accessible, that cannot be counted on election night.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put simply: We're a big state that lets people register and vote both early and late. And since it's a primary, the outcome will be determined by the number of delegates each candidate secures, which is essentially the result of a complicated math equation that can't be completed until all the votes are counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a couple of important distinctions between Iowa and California,\" said California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. \"Aside from the size of our state and our population, the first thing to remember is Iowa had a caucus yesterday. California is having a primary election. So the way elections work and the caucuses work are very, very different. Unlike caucuses, which are led by political parties and volunteers, elections in California are administered by elections professionals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike caucuses — where eligible voters gather in one specific place for a few hours to show their support for a candidate — there are many different ways, and places, that California's 20.3 million registered voters can vote over the next four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of them involve a paper ballot, Padilla said, which allow elections officials to go back and audit the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fifteen million ballots have already been sent out\" through the mail, Padilla said, noting that voters in all 58 counties can vote early by mail, or in person, at their county elections office. In 15 of those counties, he added, there are also early voting centers in additional locations; and people can register to vote up to and through Election Day at any polling location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means once the polls close at the end of the day on March 3, all those votes have to be verified as legitimate and then be counted — which can take awhile in any race. (Counties have up to four weeks to audit and officially certify election results.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"California Voter Resources\" link1=\"https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/,Check Your Voter Registration Status\" link2=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/,Check Your Ballot Status\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/SFVoter.jpg\"]\"Everyone has to walk into Election Day understanding that there will be a significant portion of the vote that is not available, that is not accessible, that cannot be counted on election night,\" said California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where things get complicated. March 3 isn't just any election — it's a presidential primary. That adds another wrinkle: delegate math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it works in California: Most of the state's 495 delegates are apportioned by congressional district. In order to get any delegates, a candidate must win at least 15% of the votes cast in that congressional district. But we won't know for sure who reached that 15% threshold until all the votes in each district are fully counted and verified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We won't know the exact delegate allocation for probably three, four weeks after the election,\" said Paul Mitchell, a consultant who advises campaigns on voter data and trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, we will know more broadly who did well in the Golden State based on the initial tallies — and that could create momentum for a candidate in other states with primaries later in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So California won't be Iowa — even if the counting takes even longer than the Hawkeye State.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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He \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/news/2018/05/21/us-election-assistance-commission-chairman-thomas-hicks-on-states-efforts-to-boost-election-security-and-resiliency/\">penned a letter\u003c/a> in response to a Politico article published last month about the low number of states that had applied for the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The states want the money, and we want to give the money out,” Hicks told NPR in an interview. “It’s mostly that they have to deal with their legislatures, and things like that. They have to jump through some hoops back at home before they can come to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if states are delaying in doing this — there are just steps they need to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, just because a state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> applied for the money doesn’t mean everything is swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, after all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now\">valid security questions\u003c/a> for election officials across the country: from the fact that 13 states still use electronic voting machines that don’t provide an auditable paper trail, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too\">security of local election websites\u003c/a> that have often never seen a major test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if every state did prioritize its own issues, bureaucracy has slowed the process. With midterms nearing, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\">intelligence community warning\u003c/a> about impending interference from Russia, that could be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each state has a completely separate set of variables to deal with in shoring up its systems, from different attitudes about election security within their respective state governments to the disparate nature of voting methods and infrastructure across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png 1582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1200x874.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1180x859.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-960x699.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-240x175.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-375x273.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-520x379.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: \u003ca href=\"https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/\">Verified Voting\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(Renee Klahr and Brittany Mayes/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The number [of states that have applied] in the abstract doesn’t worry me,” said Larry Norden, a voting expert at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, who has authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/americas-voting-machines-risk-an-update\">number of articles\u003c/a> warning about outdated voting equipment in the U.S. “But there are specifics that bother me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norden mentioned Nevada as one example; the website \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/state-websites-are-hackable-and-that-could-compromise-election-security/?ex_cid=538twitter\">FiveThirtyEight recently published\u003c/a> an article outlining vulnerabilities with parts of the state’s website (though none were related to elections). In the story, Wayne Thorley, the state’s deputy secretary for elections, said they had not yet fixed one issue because they work “in a resource-constrained world in government.” But Nevada has yet to apply for the $4.3 million it has been allocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, Thorley explained that the delay in drawing down the federal funds is not by choice. To receive the money, the state needs approval from the governor’s finance office, as well as the Nevada legislature, which currently isn’t in session. There’s a special finance committee meeting at the end of the month, where Thorley is expecting to get approval to start spending the money by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is planning to spend the money on cybersecurity improvements and training as well as improving its auditing capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said he expects every state to have turned in the necessary 2-3 page narrative application by the end of July. The amount each state receives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597077701/despite-cash-from-congress-key-election-security-issue-may-not-get-fixed\">based on population\u003c/a>, and not on any metric based on that state’s level of security or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because a state has turned in its application doesn’t indicate election security bliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota, for instance, is one of the 33 states that has turned in the necessary paperwork to receive their portion of the money. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/18/gov-mark-dayton-lawmakers-have-117-paths-to-failure-can-they-work-them-out/\">disagreement\u003c/a> between Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled legislature over a proposed budget bill means the state won’t be able to access the $6.6 million it is due until after November’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There soon will be a $6.6 million account with our name on it,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told NPR. “Earmarked for precisely the purpose we need: election security. And we can’t touch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon said his office was hoping to use a portion of the money, about $1.5 million, to hire coders for the next four years to modernize and secure the state’s voter registration system, which was built in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he “testified before legislators six different times, made numerous phone calls and held countless in-person meetings with legislators and staff” to try to convince them to separate approval for use of the election security funds from the larger budget bill, knowing that Dayton had issues with other aspects of the bill. He compared attaching approval for use of the funds to attaching the money to the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit an iceberg and did not come to pass,” Simon said. “It ended up a bad result, and the worst part is, a totally avoidable result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, and voting officials nationwide, know ensuring voter confidence is a key task of election officials. Despite the setback on getting funding, Simon remains confident Minnesota’s elections will be secure in November. The intelligence community says despite Russian hackers targeting voter registration systems in a number of states, there’s no evidence any votes were changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, the state set to receive the largest chunk of federal money, also has yet to apply for its share. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the state was busy preparing for its June 5 primary, and he wanted to wait until afterward to release its plan for the money. The exact spending details are still being finalized, but Padilla expects the state to spend about $20 million of its $34.5 million on equipment improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the money is welcome for election officials, Padilla said it’s also important to put the amount in perspective. It won’t be a silver bullet. His state alone received \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Help_America_Vote_Act_(HAVA)_of_2002#cite_note-payments-7\">more money\u003c/a> as part of 2002’s Help America Vote Act than the entire country is receiving this year from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will put more of a dink than a dent” in the broader effort to improve election security nationwide, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Congress approved giving $380 million to states to bolster the security of their elections, state officials were caught off guard but extremely grateful. Elections are notoriously underfunded and haven’t seen a windfall like this from the federal government in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting that money out to all the states, and then into the hands of localities that run the elections, with enough time to have a meaningful effect on the 2018 midterm elections is a difficult proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595305722/senators-hold-election-security-hearing-after-releasing-recommendations-for-2018\">receiving congressional approval\u003c/a>, and now less than five months from November’s midterm elections, 33 states have filed the necessary paperwork to begin receiving money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/HAVAgrants-2018.pdf\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11675516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png 1404w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1200x800.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1180x787.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-960x640.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-240x160.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-375x250.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-520x347.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number may seem “disconcertingly low” \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-cybersecurity/2018/05/17/few-states-seek-election-security-funds-221527\">to some\u003c/a>, especially when it was just 11 in mid-May, but there is mixed consensus on what it actually says about the country’s seriousness when it comes to handling threats leading up to the 2018 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED’s Election Coverage\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elections 2018 Guide and Results\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Judging a state’s preparedness and dedication to securing the vote based on this measure alone is a careless oversimplification,” said Thomas Hicks, the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, which is in charge of distributing the money. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/news/2018/05/21/us-election-assistance-commission-chairman-thomas-hicks-on-states-efforts-to-boost-election-security-and-resiliency/\">penned a letter\u003c/a> in response to a Politico article published last month about the low number of states that had applied for the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The states want the money, and we want to give the money out,” Hicks told NPR in an interview. “It’s mostly that they have to deal with their legislatures, and things like that. They have to jump through some hoops back at home before they can come to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if states are delaying in doing this — there are just steps they need to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, just because a state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> applied for the money doesn’t mean everything is swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, after all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now\">valid security questions\u003c/a> for election officials across the country: from the fact that 13 states still use electronic voting machines that don’t provide an auditable paper trail, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too\">security of local election websites\u003c/a> that have often never seen a major test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if every state did prioritize its own issues, bureaucracy has slowed the process. With midterms nearing, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\">intelligence community warning\u003c/a> about impending interference from Russia, that could be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each state has a completely separate set of variables to deal with in shoring up its systems, from different attitudes about election security within their respective state governments to the disparate nature of voting methods and infrastructure across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png 1582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1200x874.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1180x859.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-960x699.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-240x175.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-375x273.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-520x379.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: \u003ca href=\"https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/\">Verified Voting\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(Renee Klahr and Brittany Mayes/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The number [of states that have applied] in the abstract doesn’t worry me,” said Larry Norden, a voting expert at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, who has authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/americas-voting-machines-risk-an-update\">number of articles\u003c/a> warning about outdated voting equipment in the U.S. “But there are specifics that bother me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norden mentioned Nevada as one example; the website \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/state-websites-are-hackable-and-that-could-compromise-election-security/?ex_cid=538twitter\">FiveThirtyEight recently published\u003c/a> an article outlining vulnerabilities with parts of the state’s website (though none were related to elections). In the story, Wayne Thorley, the state’s deputy secretary for elections, said they had not yet fixed one issue because they work “in a resource-constrained world in government.” But Nevada has yet to apply for the $4.3 million it has been allocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, Thorley explained that the delay in drawing down the federal funds is not by choice. To receive the money, the state needs approval from the governor’s finance office, as well as the Nevada legislature, which currently isn’t in session. There’s a special finance committee meeting at the end of the month, where Thorley is expecting to get approval to start spending the money by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is planning to spend the money on cybersecurity improvements and training as well as improving its auditing capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said he expects every state to have turned in the necessary 2-3 page narrative application by the end of July. The amount each state receives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597077701/despite-cash-from-congress-key-election-security-issue-may-not-get-fixed\">based on population\u003c/a>, and not on any metric based on that state’s level of security or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because a state has turned in its application doesn’t indicate election security bliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota, for instance, is one of the 33 states that has turned in the necessary paperwork to receive their portion of the money. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/18/gov-mark-dayton-lawmakers-have-117-paths-to-failure-can-they-work-them-out/\">disagreement\u003c/a> between Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled legislature over a proposed budget bill means the state won’t be able to access the $6.6 million it is due until after November’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There soon will be a $6.6 million account with our name on it,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told NPR. “Earmarked for precisely the purpose we need: election security. And we can’t touch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon said his office was hoping to use a portion of the money, about $1.5 million, to hire coders for the next four years to modernize and secure the state’s voter registration system, which was built in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he “testified before legislators six different times, made numerous phone calls and held countless in-person meetings with legislators and staff” to try to convince them to separate approval for use of the election security funds from the larger budget bill, knowing that Dayton had issues with other aspects of the bill. He compared attaching approval for use of the funds to attaching the money to the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit an iceberg and did not come to pass,” Simon said. “It ended up a bad result, and the worst part is, a totally avoidable result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, and voting officials nationwide, know ensuring voter confidence is a key task of election officials. Despite the setback on getting funding, Simon remains confident Minnesota’s elections will be secure in November. The intelligence community says despite Russian hackers targeting voter registration systems in a number of states, there’s no evidence any votes were changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, the state set to receive the largest chunk of federal money, also has yet to apply for its share. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the state was busy preparing for its June 5 primary, and he wanted to wait until afterward to release its plan for the money. 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