CVF advocates on a select number of budget and policy issues via the California legislative process and also comments on regulations proposed by the California Secretary of State.
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CVF, ACLU California and several other voter advocacy groups sent a letter August 5, 2020 to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to provide input on draft ballot signature verification regulations (exhibit A).
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CVF and Verified Voting submitted a Letter of Concern to the Legislature regarding AB 860 and the need to strengthen technological components of California's November 2020 election plans.
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CVF supports AB 2400/Quirk which if enacted would facilitate risk-limiting audit pilots in California elections.
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CVF's March 27, 2020 memo to Secretary of State Alex Padilla providing Ten ideas for how California can address the coronavirus pandemic and conduct a secure and safe November 2020 election.
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CVF Letter of Support for SB 207/Hurtado, a 2020 bill to allow voters who are already registered in their county to update their address or political party preference by completing an affidavit instead of a conditional voter registration application.
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CVF Letter of Support for AB 681/Gonzalez, a 2019 bill to require county registrars to notify voters of their registered party preference and Presidential election voting choices in advance of the March 2020 Presidential Primary.
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CVF Letter of Support for SB 72/Umberg, a 2019 bill to require counties to provide voters with the ability to register or change their party preference on Election Day at all polling places statewide
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CVF Letter of Support for SB 523/McGuire - a 2019 bill to require counties to notify voters whose signatures are missing from vote-by-mail envelopes and provide them with the ability to submit a valid signature so their ballot is counted and not rejected.
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CVF Testimony, California Public Hearing on Voting System Decertification, March 19, 2019
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CVF Recommendations for Improving the Voter's Choice Act Model in Sacramento County
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CVF letter in support of SB 759, a new state law enacted in 2018 to require counties to contact voters with mismatched vote-by-mail ballot envelope signatures and provide an opportunity to submit a valid signature so their ballot will be counted and not rejected
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Joint "Oppose Unless Amended" letter on AB 2125 from CVF and other election security advocacy groups - CVF teamed up with several other organizations to successfully seek amendments to AB 2125, a law enacted in 2018 that allows counties as a 2020 pilot project to implement risk-limiting audits in place of the traditional one percent manual tally to verifiy election results. The amendments ensure that only voter-verified paper ballots or audit records will be used to conduct a risk-limiting audit, that all validly cast ballots be taken into account and that the public be able to verify, not merely observe, that the audit was properly conducted.
- Ten Tips for Registering Californians to Vote
- Election Funding and Governance Proposal
This proposal was developed by CVF in collaboration with representatives of the Future of California Elections (FoCE), the League of Women Voters, the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials, California Forward, the Secretary of State, California State Association of Counties, the Deparrtment of Finance and Verified Voting Foundation. It seeks to establish a funding formula in state law where the state pays 50 percent of counties' local election costs and counties provide greater consistency in voters' services statewide. Developed by the Election Funding Working Group formed by CVF and FoCE in 2016, this proposal was the result of a year-long effort undertaken by working group members. California Forward's 2016 study, Investing in California's Democracy: Building a Partnership for Performance was also an influential resource for this proposal.
Visit CVF's Advocacy and Testimony Archives page for a complete list of positions on legislation CVF has taken on California legislation since 2013.
