The new law makes voting in California and another state in the same election a misdemeanor; prosecutors say the existing statute was vague when they probed a Monte Sereno council member.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill explicitly outlawing California residents from voting here and in another state for the same election, closing a loophole brought to light by the case of a Santa Clara County elected official who had repeatedly voted in elections held on the same day.
“Voting twice in the same election in two different states is a violation of the principle of one-person, one-vote,” Berman said in a statement.that Monte Sereno City Councilmember Rowena Turner and two relatives had voted in elections held on the same day in California and in Oregon, where they also had a home.
“It was important for us that if this were to happen again, we wouldn’t have to rely on another state,” said Jason Malinsky, a Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who reviewed the South Bay double-voting case.A major exception to the law involves what are known as landowner voter districts, and any other district that does not have residency requirements to vote.
Which means it’s possible that the residents voted for president on only one of their state ballots. But Malinsky said that’s beside the point, and that the new law ensures that people with the means to have homes in several states don’t have the opportunity to unfairly amplify their voting power.
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