A member of the California Assembly wants Election Day focused on the voting booth instead of the mailbox.
Legislation from Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli would overhaul California’s elections and strike the requirement to mail a ballot to every California registered voter while also trying to speed up the vote count.
AB 13, which would make Election Day a state holiday, also seeks to end the practice of someone turning in multiple completed mail-in ballots, regardless of whether they live with the people who signed those ballots — an exercise known derisively in conservative circles as “ballot harvesting” that’s legal in California but banned in other states.
