[EL] Quick answer appreciated: Mailing absentee ballot requests to all registered voters vs. Mailing vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters

[David Becker]

California already has a top two primary for all but presidential elections. Everyone gets the same ballot for those primaries (excluding presidential), and the top two vote-getters advance to the general, regardless of party.

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From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Mark Scarberry
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Subject: Re: [EL] Quick answer appreciated: Mailing absentee ballot requests to all registered voters vs. Mailing vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters

Interesting point. Could there be a comprehensive ballot, with each party's primary contenders listed under that party's heading, so that voters could simply choose one?

Mark

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On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:35 AM David Segal <davidadamsegal at gmail.com<mailto:davidadamsegal at gmail.com>> wrote:
And there's the difficult question of how you deal with open or partially open primaries, because you'd need to send multiple ballots to many or all voters so that they can choose in which primary to vote.

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:29 PM Mark Scarberry <mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu<mailto:mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu>> wrote:
California Gov. Newsom has ordered that actual ballots be mailed to all registered voters. If I recall correctly, a lot of list members who often disagree on absentee ballot issues agree that it is not wise to mail actual ballots to every registered voter.

Am I right? I think I recall Rick (Hasen) agreeing on that point, but I can't find the email or source. Didn't an earlier election integrity commission recommend against mailing actual ballots?

Sorry for the senior moment here.

I have a media request and don't want to get this wrong. I won't use anyone's name unless you give me permission or unless I"m pointed to something you've written about publicly (not just on this list -- I don't refer to anything anyone has said on an Internet list using their name)..

Mark


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