The suit challenges the legality of Newsom’s decision in 2020 to mail a ballot to all “active” registrants on the state’s voter rolls. That same year, then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla “gutted” signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots, the plaintiffs contend.
Election Integrity Project California says in a press release that it has 700 affidavits signed under penalty of perjury from the group’s trained election observers, who reported that election workers weren’t verifying signatures and, in some cases, were counting ballots without signatures.