With an open primary there is an increased risk of ballot fraud where absentee ballots might be requested in the name of NPA voters and filled in illicitly to aid a particular primary candidate.

: There is a new Q drop claiming that a CA absentee ballot

: request form is evidence of the state conspiring to block

: Republican voter registrations. The part of the form in

: question is shown out of context and without information on

: what the form actually is and what rules currently allow

: for open party primaries in California.

: Here are the facts: In California the Democratic Party (as

: well as the Libertarian and American Independent Party) are

: allowing NPA (no party affiliation/independent) voters to

: vote in their Presidential primary election. On their vote

: by mail (absentee ballot) application in California there

: is an option for NPA voters to request the ballot to

: include the presidential primary item for one of those

: parties. There appears to be an effort to convince people

: with certain biases that the form is somehow a scheme to

: block Republican voter registration, when it isn't even a

: voter registration form. You would have to have already

: been registered to vote to request an absentee ballot, and

: the Republican party isn't mentioned on the absentee

: request form since anyone registered as a Republican would

: automatically receive the absentee ballot for their party's

: presidential primary and anyone not registered as

: Republican can't vote in the Republican primary. Only NPA

: voters can select the ballot to include the party section

: for an open primary.

:

: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vote-by-mail/pdf/vote-by-mail-application.pdf

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