I admire my friend & State Senator @BenAllenCA ambitions to make elections in California “cleaner & fairer.” However, if we want to eliminate “dark money,” let’s start with unions especially teacher’s unions. Refuse their $ Then: 1. Voter ID 2. End universal mail in ballots 3. For all mail in ballots by request, require secure ID (not signature) of the VOTER (not witness) to prevent others from filling and signing for the intended voter 4. Make all ballot harvesting or possession of another individual’s ballot for any reason a felony 5. Robust citizenship verification 6. Annual cleaning of voter rolls with 3rd party verification 7. Force every county to make its ballot reading/counting software FULLY transparent for 3rd party independent analysis. Outlaw “we wrote our own software and no you can’t see it.” 8. Outlaw ALL campaign contributions for state and local elections from public sector employee unions. Including PAC & SuperPAC spending as permitted by SCOTUS decision. This would include teacher’s unions (again, in the meantime, all candidates must set an example by refusing such $). 9. End the concept of “election month” and move back to the concept of a real “Election Day”. Make it a holiday or mandate 3 hours pay for voting. 10. Mandate ALL ballots be counted before midnight. 11. End COVID era ballot drop boxes which are subject to tampering or abuse. 12. For mail in ballots, if not received by end of election (8p) on Election Day, they’re NOT counted. Want to use one? Mail it in early OR hand it to a polling place. We have many. Such measures would restore & build much needed trust in voting and elections that will improve voter turnout and confidence in election outcomes. Thoughts?

Assembly staff analysis of the #Gavimmander shows a lot of opposition.

Assembly staff analysis of the #Gavimmander shows a lot of opposition.