A statewide program designed to allow disabled, military, and overseas Californians to print out their ballot choices remotely or at home using a computer and printer has been available to the general public for months, yet it’s not widely understood. In January 2020, California implemented the Remote Accessible Vote-by-Mail (RAVBM) program, which provides voters with a potentially faster and easier alternative to filling out a regular mail-in ballot with a pen. The RAVBM program was temporarily made available to all voters last year, regardless of disability or military status, ahead of the November 2020 election, “as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” California’s secretary of state office told The Epoch Times via email. This availability is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2022, unless a new bill moving through the legislature becomes law. Assembly Bill 37 would make RAVBM permanently available to all California voters, requiring county elections officials “to permit any …
California’s Temporary Vote-From-Home System Not Widely Understood
August 11, 2021
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