Cal republicans Not backing down

https://www.courthousenews.com/california-gop-refuses-to-take-down-unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes/

The unofficial vote-by-mail drop boxes were reported in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties over the weekend. News broke of the unofficial boxes when a southern California Republican Party field employee tweeted a picture with a ballot next to one of the boxes.

But late on Wednesday, an attorney for the California Republican Party and party chairs in Fresno and Orange counties said similar ballot collection programs were conducted in the 2020 primaries, citing state law that says voters can return their vote-by-mail ballot to anyone they most trust.

“In this case, voters have decided, for themselves, that they trust the staff and volunteers at their local political Party headquarters, or their church, or a business that they patronize, to securely deliver their completed VBM ballot to the appropriate election official,” writes attorney Thomas Hiltachk with the Sacramento-based law firm Bell McAndrews Hiltachk.

“What Democrats don’t like, is that Republicans are utilizing the very same techniques they do, and they are willing to suppress Republican votes and try to bully, threaten, and intimidate us into stopping our programs so that voters can continue to give their ballots to door-to-door union operatives with no safety or security measures in place, while our locked boxes are banned.”