California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) responded Sunday evening to Republicans’ lawsuit against the state to block Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) recent vote-by-mail order, suggesting the move is a “political smear campaign” by President Donald Trump, designed to use the Chinese coronavirus pandemic for voter suppression.
The Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Congressional Committee (RNCC), and the California Republican Party (CRP) sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) on Sunday over Newsom’s order earlier this month to send every registered voter a vote-by-mail ballot for November.
Former Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Judicial Watch sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday over his May 8 executive order allowing all voters in the state to vote by mail — whether they had formally requested to do so, or not.
A group of conservative Californians sued the Secretary of State of California, and the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), in federal court Tuesday over their alleged failure to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls.
A new investigative report by the Sacramento Bee has found that California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) rushed the controversial “Motor Voter” registration program before the 2018 midterm elections, ignoring advice from technical experts who warned that the system was not ready.
Democrats are defending “ballot harvesting” in California as zealously as they are denouncing it in North Carolina.
Outgoing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) questioned California’s process of counting votes Thursday, after several races that looked to be Republican victories on Election Day were won by Democrats in the weeks that followed.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla does not know if any of the 1,500 people who were improperly registered to vote by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) this year voted in the June primary elections, the Associated Press reports.
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), already under fire for excessively long lines, told Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Wednesday that it made key errors in 23,000 voter registrations filed under the state’s 2017 “motor voter” law.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is urging residents of California to “resist” the inclusion of a citizenship question on the U.S. Census in 2020 by submitting comments to the U.S. Census Bureau by the August 7 deadline.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declared on Monday evening that he will sue the Trump administration after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that a citizenship question will be added to the 2020 Census.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is threatening to sue if the Trump administration includes a question regarding citizenship on the 2020 census.
On Wednesday, the state Legislature’s California Latino Caucus endorsed 2018 gubernatorial candidate, and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization, has sent a letter to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla on behalf of the Election Integrity Project, noting that there are 11 counties in the state with more registered voters, and alleging that the state may be out of compliance with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin says hackers accessed voter information during California’s 2016 primary elections and changed the party affiliations of both Republicans and Democrats.
The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy editorial Friday dismissing Trump’s voter fraud commission — the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PEIC) — as a “sham.”
The Election Integrity Project (EIP), a California-based volunteer organization that aims to increase transparency in the voting process, has slammed a decision by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to refuse to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity in its efforts to investigate claims of voter fraud.
Officials from three states said Thursday they would refuse to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s Election Integrity Commission.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has refused to turn over voting data to President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Thursday that a ballot initiative called “California Nation” has been approved by the state to begin collecting signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot.
The media have exhibited a pathological determination to ignore any possibility of voter fraud, in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary.
The California Republican Party is considering taking legal action to force the State of California to adopt a more secure system for online voter registration, alleging that the current system is too lax and allows for potential voter fraud.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is furious at allegations of voter fraud in the Golden State by President-elect Donald Trump.
A newly-released Field Poll shows California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom leading the 2018 race for California governor with 23 percent support from likely voters in his bid to replace retiring Gov. Jerry Brown.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office erroneously told two congressional candidates that they would be on the November ballot last month.
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) filed a federal lawsuit last Friday to extend California’s May 23 deadline for independent or “no party preference” voters to request a ballot to vote or change their registration to the Democratic Party until the day of the June 7 primary.
On Tuesday, California’s Democrat-majority Assembly approved two major pieces of legislation, together known as “motor voter” bills, that could automatically turn prospective drivers into voters by registering visitors to the Department of Motor Vehicles who are either obtaining or renewing their drivers’ licenses.
Last month, Oregon Governor Kate Brown received considerable media attention when she put her signature on a new law that automatically registers every licensed driver in the Beaver State to vote. Here in California, newly-minted Secretary of State Alex Padilla is pushing for the state legislature to follow Oregon’s lead.
