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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch coverage \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKy84YmL-sU\">via PBS NewsHour\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 5:05 p.m. PST\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Capitol was the scene of chaos on Wednesday, as extremist supporters of President Trump responded to his call to head to the complex and then breached it, instigating unprecedented violence in the seat of America's federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman was shot and killed during the assault on the Capitol, according to Washington, D.C., police. Her identity was not made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told NPR's Carrie Johnson that the alleged shooter of the woman was a senior U.S. Capitol Police officer and that the woman who was killed was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurrectionists interrupted proceedings in the House and Senate, as members of Congress were tallying President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The counting of the votes is normally a relatively pro forma session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for two months, Trump has falsely and continuously claimed the election was stolen from him, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/953714213/here-are-the-republicans-challenging-congress-tally-of-election-results\">dozens of fellow Republicans\u003c/a> had planned to object to slates of electors from various states they considered contested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers were debating an objection to Arizona's results — a state Trump lost narrowly — when the sessions were recessed as the U.S. Capitol Police attempted to put the complex on lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent pro-Trump insurrectionists were seen smashing windows and occupying the House and Senate floors and various offices. Police were seen with guns drawn in the House chamber, pointing their firearms at windows that were smashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006717947235-edit_custom-c4abe38dac30495873149de5f92fe131b0b80ad5-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853944\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006717947235-edit_custom-c4abe38dac30495873149de5f92fe131b0b80ad5-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006717947235-edit_custom-c4abe38dac30495873149de5f92fe131b0b80ad5-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006717947235-edit_custom-c4abe38dac30495873149de5f92fe131b0b80ad5-s1600-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006717947235-edit_custom-c4abe38dac30495873149de5f92fe131b0b80ad5-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006717947235-edit_custom-c4abe38dac30495873149de5f92fe131b0b80ad5-s1600-c85-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police with guns drawn watch as violent pro-Trump extremists try to break into the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(J. Scott Applewhite/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People inside the building were told to shelter in place, and members of Congress were told that tear gas was being used in the Capitol rotunda and that they \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PeterWelch/status/1346904269375594505\">should get ready to put masks on\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED on Wednesday morning, a staffer for Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Santa Clara, described the situation: “It’s very tense to say the least. Super chaotic, Capitol police just ran down every hall shouting to get out and bring our flow hoods, which to my understanding means there’s a fear of a gas attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unnamed Capitol Hill staffer for a Bay Area House representative wrote: “Everyone has been ordered to lock their doors, windows, and stay away from windows/shelter and stay silent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chaos ensued, several Democratic Bay Area members of Congress tweeted and told KQED that they were in secure locations. “My staff and I are safe in the Capitol complex,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepDeSaulnier/status/1346927822892191750\">tweeted\u003c/a> East Bay Rep. Mark DeSaulnier just after 1 p.m. “This type of violence has no place in a democracy.” Aides to San Mateo Rep. Jackie Speier and San Jose Rep. Zoe Lofgren confirmed that both congresswomen were also safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'It's Insurrection'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In mid-afternoon televised remarks, President-elect Joe Biden called on Trump to \"go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege\" at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me be very clear,\" Biden added, \"the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not reflect who we are,\" he said, calling the violent Trump supporters a \"small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It borders on sedition and it must end now,\" Biden said. \"It's not protest; it's insurrection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1LZYRDmjTA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault,\" Biden said. \"The words of a president matter. At their best, the words of a president can inspire. At their worst, they can incite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trump Urges Peace but Doubles Down on Election Falsehoods\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, Trump asked people to remain peaceful. He then posted a video on social media, asking people to go home — but not before reiterating his baseless claims about the election being stolen and saying: \"You're very special.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter and Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/954111914/twitter-restricts-the-reach-of-trumps-video-message-citing-a-risk-of-violence\">moved to restrict the reach\u003c/a> of the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's response to the violence came just a few hours after a midday address to supporters outside the White House, in which he repeatedly denied the results of the election, claiming without evidence that it was rigged against his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This election was stolen from you, from me, from the country,\" he said in the earlier remarks. He also urged his supporters to head to the Capitol, adding: \"You'll never take back our country with weakness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gettyimages-1294930289_custom-8bad6cd744c0531ade29bdf9a131430925cd3136-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853946\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gettyimages-1294930289_custom-8bad6cd744c0531ade29bdf9a131430925cd3136-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gettyimages-1294930289_custom-8bad6cd744c0531ade29bdf9a131430925cd3136-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gettyimages-1294930289_custom-8bad6cd744c0531ade29bdf9a131430925cd3136-s1600-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gettyimages-1294930289_custom-8bad6cd744c0531ade29bdf9a131430925cd3136-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gettyimages-1294930289_custom-8bad6cd744c0531ade29bdf9a131430925cd3136-s1600-c85-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Congress run for cover as violent Trump supporters try to enter the House chamber during a joint session of Congress. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vice President Pence \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1346918219991420928\">more forcefully condemned the violence\u003c/a>, saying that the chaos engulfing the Capitol was an \"attack on our Capitol,\" and tweeting that people involved must \"immediately leave the building\" and would be \"prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and local authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/954109355/authorities-send-reinforcements-to-help-secure-the-capitol\">scrambled\u003c/a> to send forces to help secure the Capitol after it was overrun by the pro-Trump extremists. Reinforcements were also being deployed from the nearby states of Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in downtown Sacramento just across from the Capitol building, hundreds of Trump supporters — including members of the Proud Boys — rallied late Wednesday morning, with some minor scuffles flaring up. As tensions mounted, Sacramento police fenced off the Capitol grounds, KQED’s Katie Orr reported. The situation, she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/1KatieOrr/status/1346901226827309057\">tweeted\u003c/a>, \"feels pretty volatile.\" By mid-afternoon, however, Orr reported that demonstrations had fizzled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unrest prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to cancel his planned 2 p.m. COVID-19 update “out of an abundance of caution to ensure the safety of Governor’s Office staff,” his office reported. “Peaceful protest is an important mechanism of our democracy but what we are witnessing in our nation’s Capitol building is reprehensible and an outright assault to our democracy and Democratic institutions,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany wrote that the National Guard had been called in at Trump's direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We reiterate President Trump's call against violence and to remain peaceful,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement eventually gained control of the scene, ushering people out of the Capitol. The House sergeant-at-arms informed lawmakers and staff after 5 p.m. that the Capitol had been cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington, D.C., instituted a 12-hour curfew that went into effect at 6 p.m. ET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap21006702439804-edit_custom-dfbc66a6b31db68d1e724e9a57194eb401e49a17-1-scaled-e1609964727413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853922\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Extremist Trump supporters gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, near the Ohio Clock. \u003ccite>(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'The President Bears Responsibility'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The events came as thousands of pro-Trump and far-right demonstrators congregated in downtown Washington to contest the results of the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Republicans, who spent the summer castigating the mostly peaceful protests against racial police violence, had previously encouraged demonstrations calling to overturn the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans and Democrats blasted those who breached the Capitol, with many — including some in his own party — also blaming Trump for inciting the mob through his repeated claims of a stolen election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Trump incited his followers to violence,\" Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said. \"They stormed the Capitol and stopped the House and Senate in session.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap_21006685943540_custom-1b213882c422b09aab1d90c58c62f9288289e18e-1-scaled-e1609965246900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853924\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Far-right Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, prompting U.S. Capitol Police to take further security measures. \u003ccite>(Julio Cortez/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The President bears responsibility for today's events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point,\" Sen. 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Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepGallagher/status/1346912246291603465?s=20\">video message\u003c/a> from lockdown in his congressional office. \"This is the cost of countenancing an effort by Congress to overturn the election and telling thousands of people that there is a legitimate shot of overturning the election today, even though you know that is not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have got to stop this. Mr. President, you have got to stop this,\" he said. \"The election is over. Call it off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Finish the Work'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the violent breach, congressional leaders were looking to continue the process of officially recognizing the results of the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today, a shameful assault was made on our democracy,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to members. \"It was anointed at the highest level of government. It cannot, however, deter us from our responsibility to validate the election of Joe Biden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior Senate aide told NPR the Senate was aiming to reconvene around 8 p.m. ET to continue the electoral vote count and \"finish the work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., wrote on Twitter that the Electoral College ballots had been \"rescued from the Senate floor. If our capable floor staff hadn't grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1346938705932648451?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Elena Moore, Deirdre Walsh and Kelsey Snell contributed to this story. This story includes reporting from KQED's Katie Orr, Ted Goldberg, Matthew Green and David Marks.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Her identity was not made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told NPR's Carrie Johnson that the alleged shooter of the woman was a senior U.S. Capitol Police officer and that the woman who was killed was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurrectionists interrupted proceedings in the House and Senate, as members of Congress were tallying President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The counting of the votes is normally a relatively pro forma session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for two months, Trump has falsely and continuously claimed the election was stolen from him, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/953714213/here-are-the-republicans-challenging-congress-tally-of-election-results\">dozens of fellow Republicans\u003c/a> had planned to object to slates of electors from various states they considered contested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers were debating an objection to Arizona's results — a state Trump lost narrowly — when the sessions were recessed as the U.S. Capitol Police attempted to put the complex on lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent pro-Trump insurrectionists were seen smashing windows and occupying the House and Senate floors and various offices. 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Super chaotic, Capitol police just ran down every hall shouting to get out and bring our flow hoods, which to my understanding means there’s a fear of a gas attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unnamed Capitol Hill staffer for a Bay Area House representative wrote: “Everyone has been ordered to lock their doors, windows, and stay away from windows/shelter and stay silent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chaos ensued, several Democratic Bay Area members of Congress tweeted and told KQED that they were in secure locations. “My staff and I are safe in the Capitol complex,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepDeSaulnier/status/1346927822892191750\">tweeted\u003c/a> East Bay Rep. Mark DeSaulnier just after 1 p.m. “This type of violence has no place in a democracy.” Aides to San Mateo Rep. Jackie Speier and San Jose Rep. Zoe Lofgren confirmed that both congresswomen were also safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'It's Insurrection'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In mid-afternoon televised remarks, President-elect Joe Biden called on Trump to \"go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege\" at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me be very clear,\" Biden added, \"the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not reflect who we are,\" he said, calling the violent Trump supporters a \"small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It borders on sedition and it must end now,\" Biden said. \"It's not protest; it's insurrection.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/c1LZYRDmjTA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/c1LZYRDmjTA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault,\" Biden said. \"The words of a president matter. At their best, the words of a president can inspire. At their worst, they can incite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trump Urges Peace but Doubles Down on Election Falsehoods\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, Trump asked people to remain peaceful. He then posted a video on social media, asking people to go home — but not before reiterating his baseless claims about the election being stolen and saying: \"You're very special.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter and Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/954111914/twitter-restricts-the-reach-of-trumps-video-message-citing-a-risk-of-violence\">moved to restrict the reach\u003c/a> of the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's response to the violence came just a few hours after a midday address to supporters outside the White House, in which he repeatedly denied the results of the election, claiming without evidence that it was rigged against his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This election was stolen from you, from me, from the country,\" he said in the earlier remarks. 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Reinforcements were also being deployed from the nearby states of Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in downtown Sacramento just across from the Capitol building, hundreds of Trump supporters — including members of the Proud Boys — rallied late Wednesday morning, with some minor scuffles flaring up. As tensions mounted, Sacramento police fenced off the Capitol grounds, KQED’s Katie Orr reported. The situation, she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/1KatieOrr/status/1346901226827309057\">tweeted\u003c/a>, \"feels pretty volatile.\" By mid-afternoon, however, Orr reported that demonstrations had fizzled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unrest prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to cancel his planned 2 p.m. COVID-19 update “out of an abundance of caution to ensure the safety of Governor’s Office staff,” his office reported. “Peaceful protest is an important mechanism of our democracy but what we are witnessing in our nation’s Capitol building is reprehensible and an outright assault to our democracy and Democratic institutions,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany wrote that the National Guard had been called in at Trump's direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We reiterate President Trump's call against violence and to remain peaceful,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement eventually gained control of the scene, ushering people out of the Capitol. 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I think we would have arrived there, but it would have been a slower process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it has pushed us, it has pushed us to try some new things and not only in voting but probably in every aspect of our lives. I mean, most of us didn't even know what Zoom was and now we've discovered that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you see as the future of in-person voting in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think in-person voting will continue to exist. I think we're going to see the shift where it's going to become a lot less [used].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblywoman Shirley Weber\"]'Investing in outreach, investing in creating opportunities for people to vote, giving them more options, creates a better voting environment, a stronger democracy.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>My mother used to be the poll supervisor in our home, in our living room. 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People had served time, sometimes 20, 25 years, and were out on parole, sometimes parole terms were very long depending on certain circumstances and they didn't have the right to vote. I think the public said very clearly, yes, they should have the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a bill that was going to come forward this year that I had been asked to carry. And I hope someone else [will introduce it]. It talked about when people are released, they should be given certain information. And one of those things should be a driver's license. Maybe the other thing should be a registration card so they can register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One thing I heard from election officials up and down the state this year is that they finally had the money they needed to run elections, largely because of funding from the federal CARES Act. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California is a very progressive state. And yet that was one of the areas in which we weren't very progressive. People had served time, sometimes 20, 25 years, and were out on parole, sometimes parole terms were very long depending on certain circumstances and they didn't have the right to vote. I think the public said very clearly, yes, they should have the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a bill that was going to come forward this year that I had been asked to carry. And I hope someone else [will introduce it]. It talked about when people are released, they should be given certain information. And one of those things should be a driver's license. Maybe the other thing should be a registration card so they can register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One thing I heard from election officials up and down the state this year is that they finally had the money they needed to run elections, largely because of funding from the federal CARES Act. Given that some tough budget years may be ahead in California, what’s your pitch to the governor and to your soon-to-be-former colleagues in the Legislature to make elections a budget priority?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, you know, being able to vote and having access to voting is truly, truly a part of what democracy is all about, and I think we have to prioritize that. I hope the Legislature saw that when you put the money into it, you get better results. You get people who go to vote. Investing in outreach, investing in creating opportunities for people to vote, giving them more options, creates a better voting environment, a stronger democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been tapped by Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the final two years of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ U.S. Senate term, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, who will become California’s first Latino U.S. senator, has served six years as the state’s top elections official and more than a dozen years in state and local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom offered Padilla the position in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1341444411700350976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video conference call\u003c/a> recorded on Monday night, and released by the governor’s office on Tuesday morning. During the call, Padilla reflected on his working-class roots and the sacrifices his parents made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why I try so hard to make sure our democracy is as inclusive in California as we’ve built,” Padilla said. “And it’s a hell of an important perspective to bring to Washington.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla was long the favorite to fill the Senate vacancy — created when then-Sen. Harris was elected vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom weighed the decision for weeks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849699/pressure-mounts-on-newsom-over-pick-to-succeed-harris-as-californias-new-senator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amid calls from allies\u003c/a> to name a Black, Latino or LGBT candidate. Harris is currently the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should he seek to keep his Senate seat, Padilla will appear on the ballot for reelection alongside Newsom in 2022. At just 47 years old, he is poised to hold the seat for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through his tenacity, integrity, smarts and grit, California is gaining a tested fighter in their corner who will be a fierce ally in D.C., lifting up our state’s values and making sure we secure the critical resources to emerge stronger from this pandemic,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla grew up in the city of Pacoima, in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. His parents were both immigrants from Mexico; his father was a short-order cook and his mother cleaned houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottshafer/status/1341447355233550337\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At San Fernando High School, teachers encouraged Padilla to apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — a school he had only seen in brochures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An acceptance letter was not just a chance of a lifetime for me, but frankly, the fulfillment of my parents’ dreams and struggles and sacrifice,” Padilla told KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812695/alex-padilla-on-preparing-for-the-november-vote-and-his-stint-as-mayor-of-l-a-on-9-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla returned home from college in 1994 to work for Hughes Aircraft Company as an engineer, but found the aerospace industry in post-Cold War decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for him to find his new calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many California Latino politicians of his generation, Padilla’s interest in politics blossomed that fall in response to Proposition 187, the ballot measure that aimed to block undocumented immigrants from accessing public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 187 changed my life trajectory dramatically,” Padilla said. “I realized that I needed to engage politically, finally, if we wanted to not be scapegoated anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief stint working as an aide for California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Padilla ran the upstart state Assembly campaign of Tony Cárdenas, a fellow Pacoima native, who won the seat in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went from volunteer to a volunteer organizer to campaign manager within a couple of months,” Padilla recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Padilla won a seat on the Los Angeles City Council, and two years later, he became the council president at just 28 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"alex-padilla\"]Padilla’s first political trial by fire came just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. With Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn stranded on a lobbying trip in Washington, D.C, Padilla was left as acting mayor — giving daily briefings in English and Spanish, and urging Angelenos to return to work and school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla went on to serve eight years in the state Senate before being elected secretary of state in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He inherited an office that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/132384/california-and-mississippi-together-again-at-the-bottom-in-elections\">faced criticism \u003c/a>over its administration of elections — and took the helm on the heels of a midterm with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10429365/californias-2014-voter-turnout-was-even-worse-than-you-thought\">historically low voter turnout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla presided over a number of initiatives credited with boosting democratic participation in the state, including a new “motor voter” program that automatically registered DMV visitors to vote, and the 2016 Voter’s Choice Act, under which more than a dozen counties automatically sent every registered voter a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Padilla urged lawmakers to expand the principles of the Voter’s Choice Act statewide, backing a plan to send every registered voter a ballot while consolidating many in-person voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes resulted in historic turnout: More than 70% of eligible Californians cast a ballot (the highest mark since 1952), and the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\">avoided having any widespread voting issues\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, not every initiative Padilla pursued as secretary of state went off without a hitch. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was mid-morning on Election Day when Julie Mendel, a poll worker at a voting location at Mills College in Oakland, realized that something had gone horribly wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A voter had approached her with a printout from a ballot-marking device, a machine that spits out a voter’s choices onto a piece of paper (the voter’s ballot) after they have made their selections on a touchscreen. The voter then submits the ballot into a collection bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than three days of voting, Mendel and her fellow poll workers had told voters that the piece of paper was a receipt, with the actual votes submitted electronically though the machine. She had heard the guidance from a higher-ranking poll worker at the location, and never questioned it until she looked closely at the piece of paper the man was showing her. It read ‘Official Ballot.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt really awful just about the possibility that we had told these people to walk away with their votes uncast,” said Mendel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rest of the day, Mendel and other poll workers scrambled to contact the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office, trying in vain to get clear guidance and help correcting their error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julie Mendel, poll worker\"]“We felt really awful just about the possibility that we had told these people to walk away with their votes uncast.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody was like, ‘This is really concerning, I’m going to try to figure out how to solve this problem and get back to you,’ or, ‘I’m going to send an employee to the site to talk to you and figure out what’s going on,’ ” Mendel remembered. “It was like realizing we had made this giant mistake and feeling incredibly alone in trying to handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lost votes at the Mills College location (the registrar estimates as many as 160 voters may have inadvertently taken their ballots home) were not the only issue that emerged in Alameda County’s administration of this year’s election. And more than a month after the election, the county’s Board of Supervisors has been virtually silent in response to the issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems in 2020 ‘More Systemic and Significant’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights advocates have slammed the county for a delay in setting up vote-by-mail drop boxes, and for failing to post sample ballots in multiple languages, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen issues off and on in past election cycles, but they really came to a head this cycle and were more systemic and significant than we’ve seen previously,” said Julia Marks, voting rights attorney with Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Marks, voting rights attorney with Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus\"]“We have seen issues off and on in past election cycles, but they really came to a head this cycle and were more systemic and significant than we’ve seen previously.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 election provided a host of novel challenges for California counties and their election workers, who \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\">implemented changes to the voting process\u003c/a> on a short timetable in the midst of a pandemic — with levels of turnout not matched in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issues in Alameda County raise questions about the management of the registrar’s office, and whether the state’s seventh-largest county should continue to task their top elections official with simultaneously running the county’s information technology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other county in California that is the size of Alameda County that does not have someone who is a full time registrar of voters,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. “It’s a big job, and a county the size of Alameda has a lot of voters and many diverse voters whose needs they need to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis did not respond to requests for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poll Workers at Mills College ‘Desperate for Support’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a coalition of voting rights groups first raised the issues at the Mills College voting location, Dupuis \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/news/pressreleases/TimDupuis-Nov132020-ROVElectionLong.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that poll workers should have known that the touchscreen printouts were not receipts, and that by Nov. 13, the county had tracked down 22 of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis said the county’s poll worker helpline “was up and running for on-the -spot poll worker questions and problem solving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But poll workers at the Mills College location said it was difficult to get a clear answer to their questions or instructions on how to rectify the errors they had made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we started to realize that something wasn’t right, we were desperate for support and for help,” said Claire Calderón, another poll worker at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Mendel, Calderón was volunteering at the polls for the first time, after she heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many older poll workers staying home\u003c/a> to avoid contracting COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderón said it took multiple calls to determine whether the printouts were, in fact, ballots. And when she asked what could be done to track down the votes, she says she was told to “sit on her hands” and let her team captain take the blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easily something like 70-75% Black and elderly folks at our voting location,” Calderón said. “It will go down as one of the most haunting experiences of my life, realizing that I had unintentionally participated in voter disenfranchisement and that I had seen close up the apathy with which voters’ votes were treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11851873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting rights advocates say Alameda County failed to meet language access requirements at multiple voting locations, including at Oakland Arena. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With Drop Boxes, Language Access \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/2020.11.12_Advocate_Letter_to_Alameda_ROV_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter to the registrar of voters\u003c/a>, a coalition of voting rights groups that included the ACLU, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus and Oakland Rising claimed that Alameda County’s election troubles started before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county was late in setting up 38 of the more than 60 vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes it was required to provide. Some neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/alameda-county-voters-wait-on-critical-materials-needed-to-cast-their-ballots/2376964/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lacked drop boxes for days\u003c/a> after the early voting period began. The registrar said the delay was a result of the drop box vendor and supplier getting deluged by orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also charged the registrar with failing to provide ballot materials for voters with limited English proficiency. Under state law, the county is required to post copies of ballots, called facsimile ballots, in languages prevalent in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more than 200,000 limited-English proficient people in Alameda County,” Marks said. “And so having adequate language assistance is really important to make sure we’re not disenfranchising people who live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of early voting, Alameda County posted notices that the facsimile ballots were available on demand, but did not post the actual facsimile ballots, citing a burden in printing thousands of pages for each of the county’s 100 voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the poll workers at Mills College, voting advocates say it was difficult to get a response from county officials to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an election actively underway, there needs to be extremely responsive communication and problem solving from the county,” said Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language access issues have plagued Alameda County in past elections: The U.S. Department of Justice sued the county in 2011 for violating the rights of Spanish-, Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking voters. The suit resulted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1176851/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consent decree\u003c/a> that required federal monitors to supervise voting in subsequent elections. A similar Justice Department suit against the county in the 1990’s also resulted in language assistance mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their letter to the registrar after this fall’s election, voting rights organizations said “advocates have long been concerned about your office’s lack of preparedness and transparency regarding how Alameda County prepares for elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unique Management of Elections Department\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s election management structure dates back to 2006, when longtime IT head Dave MacDonald was appointed acting registrar by the Board of Supervisors, after the departure of the county’s previous election chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Tribune reported at the time that MacDonald was only slated to hold both roles temporarily, and that a permanent registrar was to be appointed “before the November [2006] election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years later, Alameda still tasks one official to run the county’s elections department as well as its technology support division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, such as Los Angeles, consolidate record-keeping responsibilities with the registrar’s job. But Alameda is the only county of its size in California with a registrar in charge of another department, and Dupuis is the\u003ca href=\"https://acgov.org/org_charts/gov_overview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> only dual-department head\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis has held those roles since 2012 — before that, as chief technology officer, he was credited with developing the county’s first mobile app and transitioning the county’s website to the smartphone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.techwire.net/news/alameda-county-cio.html#:~:text=News-,For%20Alameda%20County%20CIO%2C%20Cybersecurity%20and%20Change%20Management%20Are%20Key,or%20two%20down%20the%20road.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told TechWire\u003c/a>, a trade website for government technology news, that technology is a key component of the county’s voter outreach programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the ROV/CIO I can bring an understanding of both professions together,” Dupuis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But election administration has become more complex in California. In 2020, election officials were tasked with sending every voter a mail ballot while still operating in-person voting sites — a management responsibility akin to “putting on a war,” said Alexander, with the California Voter Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that it’s important for the person who is managing elections in a county the size of Alameda to have that as their number one job and their only job,” Alexander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation\"]“I do think that it’s important for the person who is managing elections in a county the size of Alameda to have that as their number one job and their only job.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any changes to Alameda County’s current elections leadership would come from the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to make sure that the personnel that they’ve put in charge of elections for their voters in the county have the support and the staffing and the resources that they need to do the job to the voters’ expectations,” Alexander added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of Alameda County’s five supervisors agreed to an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Supervisor Keith Carson said that the board met with Dupuis in mid-November to review and discuss the election in a closed session, “because of the threat of litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the list of requests from voting rights organizations is an ask for more communication between the registrar and voting rights groups in the lead-up to the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a conversation between the registrar and the board behind closed doors can be a first step,” said Marks. “But there has to be something that the public can see because the registrar is accountable to everyone in Alameda County, and we all want to be assured that this won’t happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And when she asked what could be done to track down the votes, she says she was told to “sit on her hands” and let her team captain take the blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was easily something like 70-75% Black and elderly folks at our voting location,” Calderón said. “It will go down as one of the most haunting experiences of my life, realizing that I had unintentionally participated in voter disenfranchisement and that I had seen close up the apathy with which voters’ votes were treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11851873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting rights advocates say Alameda County failed to meet language access requirements at multiple voting locations, including at Oakland Arena. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems With Drop Boxes, Language Access \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/2020.11.12_Advocate_Letter_to_Alameda_ROV_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter to the registrar of voters\u003c/a>, a coalition of voting rights groups that included the ACLU, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus and Oakland Rising claimed that Alameda County’s election troubles started before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county was late in setting up 38 of the more than 60 vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes it was required to provide. Some neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/alameda-county-voters-wait-on-critical-materials-needed-to-cast-their-ballots/2376964/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lacked drop boxes for days\u003c/a> after the early voting period began. The registrar said the delay was a result of the drop box vendor and supplier getting deluged by orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also charged the registrar with failing to provide ballot materials for voters with limited English proficiency. Under state law, the county is required to post copies of ballots, called facsimile ballots, in languages prevalent in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more than 200,000 limited-English proficient people in Alameda County,” Marks said. “And so having adequate language assistance is really important to make sure we’re not disenfranchising people who live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of early voting, Alameda County posted notices that the facsimile ballots were available on demand, but did not post the actual facsimile ballots, citing a burden in printing thousands of pages for each of the county’s 100 voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the poll workers at Mills College, voting advocates say it was difficult to get a response from county officials to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an election actively underway, there needs to be extremely responsive communication and problem solving from the county,” said Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language access issues have plagued Alameda County in past elections: The U.S. Department of Justice sued the county in 2011 for violating the rights of Spanish-, Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking voters. The suit resulted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1176851/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consent decree\u003c/a> that required federal monitors to supervise voting in subsequent elections. A similar Justice Department suit against the county in the 1990’s also resulted in language assistance mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their letter to the registrar after this fall’s election, voting rights organizations said “advocates have long been concerned about your office’s lack of preparedness and transparency regarding how Alameda County prepares for elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unique Management of Elections Department\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s election management structure dates back to 2006, when longtime IT head Dave MacDonald was appointed acting registrar by the Board of Supervisors, after the departure of the county’s previous election chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Tribune reported at the time that MacDonald was only slated to hold both roles temporarily, and that a permanent registrar was to be appointed “before the November [2006] election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years later, Alameda still tasks one official to run the county’s elections department as well as its technology support division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, such as Los Angeles, consolidate record-keeping responsibilities with the registrar’s job. 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It’s not a constitutional right to have a Facebook account.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the stuff that I posted came from OANN — One America News [Network],” she said, naming a far-right, pro-Trump cable TV channel. Far-right, pro-Trump news outlets and politicians have more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847579/claiming-censorship-conservatives-head-to-alternative-social-media-sites-post-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commonly been flagged\u003c/a> for posting misinformation this year, but Estante says it’s a mistake to presume she was always posting in agreement with the articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a big thing with the QAnon. I did not like it. I think I even posted a Newsweek article about the kind of psychological need that this kind of conspiracy thing was feeding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook did not respond to requests for comment on this story, so it’s not possible to confirm exactly why Estante’s group was deactivated, but she suspects artificial intelligence software flagged the group because its admins and roughly 2,000 members posted a lot of links about hot-button topics, like QAnon. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair enough, she thought at first. “Private company. You have a right to kick me off. You have a right to ban me. It’s not a constitutional right to have a Facebook account.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was even sanguine about the fact Facebook deleted the group’s administrators, too. But then Estante discovered she was blocked from 13 years worth of photos she posted on Facebook — many of them her only copies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my grandmothers’ photos, actually. I didn’t have certain photos of her that were on my account on the anniversary of her death,” she said, adding she’s also lost access to photos of her dead German Shepherd/Doberman mix, Benji. “That dog was my companion everywhere. I’m pretty heartbroken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11851744\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 653px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11851744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/D1DF5A56-02BD-4C62-ABB1-98D0FD40DF02-2.jpeg\" alt=\"A screenshot from one of Rheba Estante's politically conservative friends on social media. 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She looked up Facebook executives on LinkedIn and contacted them directly. She opened a dispute with \u003ca href=\"https://trustarc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TrustArc\u003c/a>, a privacy compliance company that contracts with Facebook. She sent both companies copies of her driver’s license and passport, repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been going on since, you know, mid-August. It should not be this herculean task. Literally, let me just download it, and buh-bye,” Estante said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She feels the same way about her Instagram account, deleted one week after the election, though she says she sticks to New York Times links on Instagram during election years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estante even tried to line up a lawyer, but according to the state attorney general’s office, neither the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/791190150/california-rings-in-the-new-year-with-a-new-data-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844163/proposition-24-californians-say-yes-to-expanding-on-nations-toughest-data-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Rights Act\u003c/a> voters just approved would prohibit a company from deleting data or disabling accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more to the point, neither law provides consumers with a private right of action if a business does not comply with a consumer’s requests, wrote a spokesperson for the office, adding, “We encourage any Californian who believes they have been wronged to \u003ca href=\"http://www.oag.ca.gov/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">file a complaint\u003c/a> with our office.” That said, there is no promise to follow up on any individual complaint, and no threshold number of complaints that will trigger an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"misinformation\" label=\"More Coverage\"]“Any service with 2 billion users is going to make mistakes, right?” said University of New Hampshire law professor Roger Ford, who studies privacy and social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford added, “We want them to be taking down bad content, and so the law assumes that you’re going to want to immunize people who are doing that, because we don’t want people to worry about getting sued for making those mistakes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Republican campaigns to win back seven California House seats the party lost in 2018 had to contend with a basic truth in this last election: Voters there had not warmed to President Trump during his first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the race was going to come down to Trump, we had a very good idea how these seven seats were going to play out again in 2020,” said Sam Oh, a Republican consultant with the firm Targeted Victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh led the winning campaigns of Congresswomen-elect Young Kim and Michelle Steel, two of the four Republicans who ultimately flipped House seats that Democrats won in the 2018 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850925\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1270px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11850925 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1270\" height=\"2020\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races.png 1270w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races-800x1272.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races-1020x1622.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races-160x254.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/CD-Races-966x1536.png 966w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election results in four California congressional districts that Republicans flipped in 2020. Source: California Target Book \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the campaign, there was a very good chance that the Democratic [presidential] nominee would carry these districts again,” said Oh on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850650/sam-oh-on-how-the-gop-flipped-back-house-seats-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “And one of the things that we wanted to do was create a path to victory that made sense, that we thought was realistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That path included factors the campaigns could control, like recruiting diverse candidates with local roots, focusing on issues close to home and making selective (though rare) breaks with the president. The campaigns also may have benefited from having Trump on the ballot to bear the brunt of voter disappointment in his performance, potentially shielding down-ballot candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these four key California House districts, voters picked Joe Biden (often by wide margins) over Trump, but still sent Republicans to Congress, according to district data from the non-partisan California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The results confirm that in these districts, as in California as a whole, Trump is pretty massively unpopular,” said Darry Sragow, publisher of the California Target Book and a former Democratic consultant. “But it doesn’t mean the Republicans have abandoned their faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican victories in 2020 came in the Central Valley’s 21st District, the 25th District in northern Los Angeles and Ventura counties and the 39th and 48th districts in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Trump lost all four districts, which caught the attention of national Democrats and led to the 2018 “Blue Wave” — when Democrats flipped those seats and three others in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the president remained personally unpopular in California, and his policies, including the attempted repeal of the Affordable Care Act, family separations at the border and tax reform that limited deductions for many California suburbanites, drew the ire of Golden State voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in 2018, Trump wasn’t on the ballot,” Sragow said. “And so you can conclude that voters who might otherwise vote for Republican candidates for congressional and legislative seats took their anger out on the party and did not vote for those Republican candidates who they otherwise would have supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]This year, Republicans in Orange County hoped that a more diverse slate of candidates — Kim and Steel are both Korean American immigrants — and a focus on small-dollar donations could help close the gap against Democratic incumbents Gil Cisneros and Harley Rouda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh said the campaigns specifically targeted Vietnamese American voters in Orange County, who they believed might be open to voting for both Biden and a Republican congresswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that dynamic candidates, different candidates like Michelle Steel and Young Kim can do, is they can look to ethnic communities for ticket-splitters,” Oh said. “We campaigned very heavily in the 48th District to Vietnamese voters, and as we know … they are people who show up to vote, they lean Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That outreach even included gently criticizing the president, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/20/why-vietnamese-refugees-also-need-the-first-step/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steel did over a Trump proposal\u003c/a> that opened the door to the deportation of some Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes. However, other successful GOP candidates like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839743/congressional-rematch-pits-central-valley-democrat-against-the-republican-he-beat-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Valadao\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843447/north-of-los-angeles-two-republicans-chart-different-paths-for-political-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Garcia chose to align themselves\u003c/a> more closely with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s increase in vote-by-mail participation (every registered voter received a mail ballot in 2020) could have also contributed to the ticket-splitting between the presidential and congressional contests, said Sragow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more time to research and mull over down-ballot candidates from the comfort of their homes, voters may have felt more comfortable splitting their ticket instead of casting a party-line vote or skipping the congressional races altogether, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference in the total number of votes cast for president and for Congress has decreased in each election cycle since the four districts were created: from an average gap of 12,295 in 2012, to 8,280 in 2016, to just 2,970 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"election-2020\"]Voters may also have consciously aimed for the president and Congress to serve as checks on one another, said Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in an era here of over 20 years now of American voters seeking divided government, splitting the power between the branches of government,” Stutzman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticket-splitting was rare in U.S. Senate contests across the country this cycle, but more common in suburban districts like those in Orange County and northern Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And voters’ desire for moderation could inform how both parties approach the 2022 midterms, when Democrats will defend their narrow House majority in a new map determined by next year’s redistricting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To Republicans, I think the cautionary tale is these are voters that are seeking a center, center-right direction for the country, but they certainly rejected Trump,” Stutzman said. 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