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Law enforcement officers will be banned from interfering with California elections under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday, just in time for the June 2 primary election. The law, which takes effect immediately, criminalizes the act of taking cast ballots from the custody of a local election official, as gubernatorial candidate Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco did earlier this year when he seized more than 600,000 ballots from his own county’s registrar of voters. Although Bianco claimed he was checking for proof of fraudulent voting, there was no evidence to suggest any ballots were cast improperly. Maya C. Miller, CalMatters.
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How Rhode Island’s Registration Data Dashboard Helps Election Officials and the Public
By Kira Flemke, Amelia Minkin, Kyle Upchurch (Center for Election Innovation and Research)
All states publish data about the number of registered voters statewide. But not all data displays are equal. Good displays reduce work for election officials by reducing public requests for information while increasing election transparency for the public. Our new report seeks to help election officials easily create a good voter registration dashboard.
Registration data is complicated and dynamic due to processes like ongoing voter registration and list maintenance. Without a clear and contextualized way of displaying it to the public, this data can be misunderstood and result in burdensome requests for additional information from officials.
To address this, Rhode Island’s Department of State developed a registration data dashboard that gives the public one web portal with everything they need to understand voter registration data. And thanks to some automation, monthly updating of the data is easy for department staff.
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