California GOP rejects state's order to cease using unofficial ballot drop boxes
California's Republican Party told state officials on Wednesday that it wouldn't comply with a cease-and-desist order demanding it stop operating unofficial ballot drop boxes. "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 [vote-by-mail] ballot to the appropriate election official," reads the letter from election attorney Thomas W.