Democrats want the names of voters who used GOP drop boxes. Now they're going to court

California Republicans refuse to hand over information about who used their unofficial ballot drop boxes. Now, state Democratic leaders are taking them to court.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday filed a petition in the Sacramento Superior Court requesting the court order the CA GOP to comply with “investigative interrogatories,” or questions posed to the party about the use of unofficial ballot drop boxes.

Becerra is asking the court to force Republicans to provide the name, address and birth date of all individuals that deposited a vote by mail ballot in any of Republicans’ non-official drop boxes, as well as the number of drop boxes deployed by the party and their locations, according to court filings.

“Here in California, we’re doing everything in our power to protect the integrity of our elections,” Becerra said in a statement. “As part of that and pursuant to our statutory authority, we issued subpoenas and interrogatories to determine the extent to which the deployment of unauthorized ballot drop boxes may have impacted Californians.”

Last week, Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla issued a cease-and-desist letter to the California Republican Party and three local chapters in Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange counties, to stop the use of unofficial ballot boxes. The boxes, which were found at churches, gun stores and other private businesses, were incorrectly marked as “official” and misled voters to believe they were secure, according to Becerra and Padilla.

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