California governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a package of bills aimed at bolstering election security, including measures to thwart federal political interference, his office announced on Sunday.
The pieces of legislation appear to address hot button national and state electoral issues, including an extension to the hours for mail-in voting drop off locations.
Newsom singled out the vote-by-mail measure, framing it as a safeguard against the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict the practice it claims is rife with fraud. The US supreme court recently blocked the administration’s proposed changes to vote-by-mail, including an unwieldy mandate for states to submit lists of approved voters for mail ballots to the US postal service.
“Donald Trump won’t stop until he can exert dictatorial control over your free vote and disenfranchise millions of people this November. California will stop him at every opportunity,” he said in a statement. “We have no bigger task than fighting to protect the right to vote from interference and meddling – the future of democracy is on the line.”
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