1.媒體來源: CNN
2.記者署名: Sarah Moon, Stella Chan and Paul LeBlanc
3.完整新聞標題: California authorities send cease and desist to state GOP over
unofficial ballot drop boxes
4.完整新聞內文:
Washington (CNN)The California Secretary of State and Department of Justice
have sent a cease and desist order to the California Republican Party to
remove unofficial ballot drop boxes placed in at least three counties,
officials announced in a news conference on Monday.
"These unauthorized drop boxes are a disservice to state and local election
administrators who have spent months working on the placement and deployment
of official ballot drop boxes," California Secretary of State Alex Padilla
said.
Images of the unofficial boxes showed that some had been labeled as
"official," Padilla explained, adding that his office received reports of the
unofficial boxes being deployed by the state Republican Party in Fresno, Los
Angeles and Orange counties.
California state law does not allow for the use of unauthorized vote-by-mail
ballot drop boxes. Only county election officials have the authority to
oversee drop boxes and ensure that they're in compliance with the law.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, however, said Monday that his
office received "disturbing reports" that some Republican Party officials are
not willing to remove the "unofficial" boxes.
California Republican Party spokesman Hector Barajas told CNN in a statement
earlier Monday that the unofficial boxes amounted to an opportunity for
"friends, family, and patrons to drop off their ballot with someone they know
and trust."
"The Democrat anger is overblown when state law allows organizations,
volunteers or campaign workers to collect completed ballots and drop them off
at polling places or election offices," Barajas claimed.
Fresno County GOP Chairman Fred Vanderhoof also maintained that the party
wasn't doing anything wrong in an interview with CNN, alleging without
evidence that the state Democratic Party was ballot harvesting.
"We have a hypocritical situation," he said.
Padilla told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "Prime Time" later Monday that the cease
and desist order has nothing to do with partisan politics and the unofficial
ballot box operation is "wrong no matter who is doing it."
The unofficial boxes, he said, "don't have a chain of custody and we don't
have the requirements or regulations for these fake drop boxes as you do for
the official drop boxes."
"We have a ton of requirements on official drop boxes," he continued. "That's
where we should be driving voters to."
A pastor at the Freedom's Way Baptist Church in Santa Clarita, California,
even encouraged parishioners to use the unofficial ballot boxes on Sunday
after one was placed outside the church.
"Freedom's Way Baptist provides the option to its parishioners to drop off
their ballot in a safe location," Pastor Jerry Cook said.
"Isn't church pretty safe? In a safe location with people they trust rather
than handing it over to a stranger who knocks on their door, which is
something called ballot harvesting."
The installation of unofficial ballot drop boxes comes as President Donald
Trump continues to lean into a conspiratorial message around the US voting
process and mail-in voting in particular ahead of the November election.
While rare instances of voter fraud from mail-in ballots do occur, it is
nowhere near a widespread problem in the US election system.
Mail ballot fraud is exceedingly rare in part because states have systems and
processes in place to prevent forgery, theft and voter fraud. Those systems
would apply to both absentee ballots and mail-in ballots for in-state voters.
5.完整新聞連結 (或短網址): https://tinyurl.com/y632bx5d
6.備註:
大意是南加州至少三個郡的街上出現了貼著「官方投票箱」貼紙的「非官方投票箱」
這些非官方投票箱是共和黨設置的 加州檢察單位已經叫共和黨收走這些箱子並進行調查
但加州檢察總長接到報告稱共和黨不打算收
且共和黨人表示這些票箱是幫助選民安心投票的 反控民主黨才是搞收割選票的作弊仔
各新聞已經陸續改用"unofficial" ballot drop box了 剛剛看到更多直接用fake的
趣味