Nope, nothing to see here. All the voting is secure and safe and fraud free. Move along, now. Move along.
After reading the article, I discovered this tid-bit:
On its website, the Fresno County Republican Party also shared a list of “secure” ballot collection locations. None are official county drop box sites, with the local GOP instead listing its own headquarters, multiple gun shops and other local businesses.The state is still looking into the source or sources of the boxes, Mahood said.
The California Republican Party did not respond to requests for comment about the boxes by deadline. But they’ve been defending the practice in replies on Twitter, alleging the process was made legal under a 2016 law that allows California voters to designate a person to return their ballot for them. The GOP calls the practice “ballot harvesting” and blames it for losses to the Democrats in OC and other places in 2018.
But state officials clarified that using an unauthorized vote-by-mail drop box would not meet the requirements of the 2016 law. No designated “person” would be signing for the ballots as required by state law.
But once the ballots are taken out of the drop box, someone would sign for them.
So the Republicans are trying to play the ballot harvesting game like the Democrats did in 2018, but the Democrats are now crying 'foul.'