Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order Friday needing California to send by mail a tally to every citizen in the state ahead of the general election on Nov. 3.

Newsom stated the relocation was triggered by public health issues over in-person ballot due to the coronavirus.

“Elections and the right to vote are foundational to our democracy,” Newsom stated in a declaration. “No Californian should be forced to risk their health in order to exercise their right to vote.”

A number of states, consisting of Colorado and Oregon, currently mail ballots to all their voters, however California is the first to do so in action to the pandemic.

Californians who need to vote face to face (i.e., handicapped people or unhoused people who need help to vote) will still have the ability to do so at designated ballot websites.

“We are meeting our obligation to provide an accessible, secure, and safe election this November,” stated California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who will supervise the procedure. “Sending every registered voter a ballot by mail is smart policy and absolutely the right thing to do during this COVID-19 pandemic.”

California, the most populated state in the nation, has 20.6 million signed up voters. Fourteen counties in the state currently mail ballots to every citizen.

Coronavirus has actually contaminated more than 1.2 million Americans and eliminated more than 76,000 people simply in the U.S., and issues over the safety of holding an in-person election in November have actually grown.

An unmatched variety of voters are anticipated to vote by mail instead of run the risk of direct exposure at ballot websites, making it progressively most likely that the governmental election results will drip in throughout weeks or days. Vote-by-mail ballots are more lengthy to count, HuffPost’s Paul Blumenthal keeps in mind, and there are often hold-ups in states reporting thoseresults

President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has actually pressed conspiracy theories about ballot by mail, incorrectly declaring absentee ballots are ripe for prevalent citizen scams.

“Mail ballots ― they cheat. OK? People cheat,” Trump stated in April, when Wisconsin voters were required to go to the surveys in order to vote in the state’s main election, in spite of issues over coronavirus. “Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country, because they’re cheaters. They go and collect them. They’re fraudulent in many cases.”

Trump, who himself is a signed up in Florida and votes by mail, has actually used no proof for those claims. Numerous research studies have actually revealed citizen scams is incredibly uncommon.

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