Voting
Inmate Voting (ACA 4)
Assemblyman Isaac Bryan’s (D-Culver City) bill would amend the state Constitution to allow inmates that are incarcerated for felonies to vote while still in prison. If passed by a two-thirds vote in both the Assembly and Senate, it would then require a majority of voters statewide to pass.
Under current law, those with felonies on their record are allowed to vote. A 2016 law additionally allowed county jail inmates to vote.
A sheriff’s deputy (R) talks to a detainee (L) in a high-security housing unit at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, Calif., on March 14, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
Mail in Voting (AB 13)
Assemblyman Bill Essayli’s (D-Riverside) bill would repeal existing law that every voter receives a ballot by mail. It would also reduce the deadline for election officials to receive a ballot from seven to three days after an election….