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"content": "\u003cp>With fights brewing in state legislatures across the country over proposed restrictions on voting, California lawmakers are moving in the opposite direction — advancing an expansion of mail-in voting that would transform future elections in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, California enacted a universal vote-by-mail system, with supporters arguing that the policy was crucial to prevent voters from crowding and spreading COVID-19 at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eric McGhee, Public Policy Institute of California\"]‘If your goal is to increase turnout, mailing a ballot to every voter probably accomplishes most of the turnout benefits.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the pandemic waning in the state, advocates are pointing to the historic turnout and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smooth administration\u003c/a> of last year’s election in California, in a bid to make those voting changes permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your goal is to increase turnout, mailing a ballot to every voter probably accomplishes most of the turnout benefits,” said Eric McGhee, senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/vote-by-mail-and-voter-turnout-in-the-pandemic-election/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a study this week\u003c/a> detailing the turnout effects of mail-in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation that would direct counties to send every registered voter a ballot by default in all future elections faces its first hearing in the state Assembly on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push for increased mail-in voting in California stands in contrast to moves by some Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country to restrict access to the ballot. Many proposals were launched in response to false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-march-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brennan Center for Justice\u003c/a>, more than 350 restrictive bills have recently been introduced, and five have already been signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2020, vote-by-mail expansion “wasn’t really a political fight,” said Sylvia Albert, voting and elections program director at the advocacy group Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These provisions have been passed in red, blue and purple states for years,” Albert said. “It’s really just now that we’re seeing a division where states that are improving access are generally Democratic-controlled and states that are attempting to suppress the vote are generally Republican-controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Gov. 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If it passes, in-person voting would still remain an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also allow counties to begin processing (but not counting) ballots a month before Election Day, and allow ballots mailed by Election Day to count if they are received by election officials within a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we see so many efforts in other states to make it harder for people to vote, let’s have California be a real example of what works well,” said Assemblymember Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, the bill’s author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman wrote the legislation that piloted a universal vote-by-mail system in California in 2020. That bill, which gained the support of nine Republicans in the Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825137/state-legislature-approves-bill-to-mail-all-california-voters-a-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was trumpeted as a way to make voting at home\u003c/a> easy and safe during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, members of the GOP are likely to argue that long-term shifts toward voting at home are unnecessary as coronavirus cases fall. No Republican lawmaker voted in support of extending the vote-by-mail provisions through the end of the 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Berman’s bill are touting mail-in voting as a way to maintain the historic levels of voter participation seen in the 2020 election. Over 80% of registered voters cast a ballot in California, the highest mark since 1976.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe PPIC report released this week found that sending every voter a ballot is the most effective strategy to boost voter participation. While a competitive presidential election led to a jump in turnout in nearly every state compared to 2016, states that shifted to universal mail balloting, including Utah, Hawaii and California, saw the largest average increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other vote-by-mail provisions enacted across the county, such as removing the need for a reason to receive a mail ballot, or mailing all voters an application to sign up for it, had less effect on turnout, said McGhee, one of the report’s authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of receiving a mail ballot was felt especially by California voters who previously cast ballots in person at their local precinct. Turnout among those new mail voters increased by an estimated 10.6%, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sending every voter a ballot is not a panacea for boosting voter participation in all elections, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, just 21% of registered voters in San Diego’s 79th Assembly District voted in a special election, despite every one of them receiving a ballot in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mail-in-voting\"]“It is pretty consistent that turnout is lower for these special elections,” said Cynthia Paes, San Diego’s interim registrar of voters, who noted that 62,000 voters cast a mail ballot, compared with just 1,650 who showed up to vote in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our registered voters tend to appreciate the convenience of voting by mail,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some voting rights advocates argue that turnout is not the only benchmark for a successful election, and the PPIC report did not include data on turnout among specific demographic groups in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re thinking about who is most impacted by election policy, really look to folks like voters with disabilities,” said Lucille Wenegieme, director of communications with the National Vote at Home Institute. “What we’ve seen year over year is that gap does close for voters with disabilities when you’re able to create more access to voting by mail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A continuation of universal mail-in voting is likely in California, though some questions remain over how the system will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County registrars will likely request more money if they are asked to mail ballots as well as open voting locations in future years. 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"content": "\u003cp>Legislation that would gradually phase out fracking and other extraction methods that account for most of California's petroleum production faces its first big test in Sacramento on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine-member Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee is set to vote on a proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 467\u003c/a>, that would bar new permits for hydraulic fracturing, cyclic steaming, steam flooding and water flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would begin taking effect in 2023 and also prohibit renewing existing permits for fracking and the other targeted methods, which \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB467#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a committee bill analysis\u003c/a> says accounts for an estimated 80% to 95% of the state's oil production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its current form, the measure would ban all the targeted methods by 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, co-author of SB 467\"]'It will be a huge political lift to get it across the finish line'[/pullquote]The bill would also ban issuance of new permits for drilling or other oil production activities within 2,500 feet of homes, schools and health care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal would fundamentally shift energy policy in California, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPCA1&f=A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">produced 144 million barrels of oil last year\u003c/a> — seventh highest in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the bill to the governor's desk will not be easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a huge political lift to get it across the finish line,\" said state Sen. 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Last September, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Kamala Harris visited her hometown of Oakland for the first time since becoming vice president. While love was in the air at speeches made across the Bay Area on Monday, Harris used the backdrop of the working-class East Bay to tout \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983470782/by-the-numbers-bidens-2-trillion-infrastructure-plan\">President Biden's $2 trillion American Jobs Plan\u003c/a>, the administration's latest \"go big\" package before Congress.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Congresswoman Barbara Lee\"]'Vice President Kamala Harris has taken the values of the East Bay to Washington, D.C., and with her brilliance, [will] make sure that all the policies and the agenda of the Biden administration have an added lens of racial and gender equity and justice. And I think today is a reflection of that.’[/pullquote]But the trip was also a homecoming — the sense of hometown pride was everywhere, starting with Oakland Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee, one of three state officials who greeted Harris at Oakland International Airport when Air Force Two touched down Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a historic day,” Lee said at a visit later in the morning at Red Door Catering, a woman-owned catering business in Oakland. “It is so exciting for all of us, and I'm so proud and excited to welcome our vice president back home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris returned the love saying several times, \"It is great to be in Oakland and to be home.\" Speaking at the East Bay Municipal Utility District's Upper San Leandro Water Treatment Plant, Harris noted that she and her mother had lived not too far from the plant when she was growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was joined at the water treatment plant by Gov. 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The Biden administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan will create similar opportunities, Harris said, “where we partner up with the building trades, the pipefitters, the plumbers, electricians, the carpenters, understanding they have some of the best apprenticeship programs in our country to build up the skills of the American workforce to get these jobs, which are good union jobs, good-paying union jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottshafer/status/1379163050259800070\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris emphasized that “water is a right,” mentioning how contaminated drinking water has led to terrible health outcomes in places like Flint, Michigan, and parts of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must understand the equities and inequities of distribution and access to clean water, especially clean drinking water, and address it in a way that is about supporting what governments must do in a local, at a state and on a federal level,” Harris said. The Biden administration's proposed infrastructure plan would help remove lead pipes and outdated water systems, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let's upgrade them. Why? Because drinking lead will kill our children, literally,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the value of water, Harris likened it to oil, a precious resource that countries have fought over. “I would suggest to you in a short matter of time, wars will be fought over water,\" she said without further elaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris also made a stop at Red Door, a catering business founded and operated by \u003ca href=\"https://reddoorcatering.com/about/\">Reign Free\u003c/a>, who like Harris is part Indian American. Joining the entourage in the company’s kitchen were Sen. Alex Padilla, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and Rep. 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It would require all concrete, heating, air conditioning and tree service contractors to buy workers' comp right away. By 2025, all licensed contractors in California would be required to purchase coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faces no apparent opposition in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee passed the bill in a 14-0 vote after members of nine associations representing contractor groups, unions and lawyers who handle workers' comp cases voiced support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11780384,news_11405049,news_11367902 label='Related Coverage']Daum, the lobbyist with the subcontractors association, said contractors who try to hide the fact they have employees and neglect their responsibility to get workers' comp have an unfair advantage over those who follow the rules: Without paying for insurance, their costs are lower, allowing them to make lower bids on project contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill does not require a set level of workers' comp coverage. 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We're all facing issues around housing,\" said Vella, who argues that her local government experience positions her well for a move to the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s one thing to say I’ve got these pie-in-the sky ideas, it’s another to see how they are implemented,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vella also works as an attorney for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, and could bring the support of organized labor into the race. She said dealing with members' concerns is akin to working with constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I like to tell people I don’t have one boss, I have thousands of bosses, and being in the Assembly is similar to that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"rob-bonta\"]James Aguilar, the San Leandro school board trustee, is seeking state office after being elected to the school board in 2018, at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only as the youngest voice in the race, but the son of union workers and labor organizers, and as a gay Latino, I have all of these intersecting experiences that would be of value to the Assembly district,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said the debate over the resumption of classroom learning (his district is beginning hybrid learning for all grades on April 12) has been an instructive political experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been stressful, but it's also been really great because we have had an opportunity to connect with our community more than ever,\" Aguilar said. \"I would say we've had our calls maxed out on Zoom and that community participation is just absolutely tremendous and we haven't had that kind of involvement before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected, Aguilar said he looks forward to working on legislation addressing climate change, racial justice and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Likely to Be a Crowded Field\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>More candidates are expected to join the race in the coming days. A large field would almost certainly ensure that no candidate receives a majority of votes in the primary election, which would likely take place in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you’ve got seven or eight candidates, the math never works out that way,\" said Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no candidate with the districtwide name recognition needed to clear the field has entered the ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, whose term expires in January 2023, has no interest in the seat, a spokesperson for the mayor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan and Mia Bonta, president of the Alameda Unified School Board — and Rob Bonta's wife — did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If no candidates gets a majority, then the top two finishers in the primary would advance to a runoff election, which would likely take place in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding another wrinkle, the district's map will change in the next year as part of California's redistricting process, so the winner will have to run for reelection in a redrawn district in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860552/state-legislature-votes-to-extend-universal-vote-by-mail-through-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> legislation signed by Newsom\u003c/a> earlier this year, every registered voter in the district will automatically receive a ballot in the mail. 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Someone who has been working hand in glove on many of the issues that are front and center and are certainly topical today.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has represented the 18th Assembly District, which includes areas of Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, since 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If confirmed by the state Legislature, as is widely expected, Bonta will serve out the remainder of Becerra’s four-year term, which ends in 2022. As such, he would presumably run next year for a full term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has authored several criminal justice reform bills, including ones that ban the use of private prisons, mandate independent reviews by the state Department of Justice of officer-involved shootings and eliminate cash bail. 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