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Sun May 9, 2021, 02:03 AM May 2021

Voting Rights Advocates Take Aim at Alameda Registrar After 'Devastating Errors' in 2020 Election

Voting rights advocates lobbed criticisms at the top elections official in Alameda County, and the county's five-member board of supervisors, during a Tuesday hearing reviewing the 2020 election.

For the first time since a series of issues plagued the county in the administration of the November election, Alameda County Registrar Tim Dupuis spoke publicly before the board to defend his office. He also detailed his plans to improve the voting process before the county is set to hold multiple elections later this year.

But voting rights attorneys at the hearing expressed little confidence in the county's elections leadership after an election in which ballots were inadvertently discarded, ballot language requirements were flouted and advocates struggled to communicate with the registrar's office.

“I am sorry to say that I have never felt that this office and its leadership meet the standards set by the elections officials around the rest of California," Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, told the board. "I felt this way before the devastating errors in the November 2020 elections."

Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/11872161/voting-rights-advocates-take-aim-at-alameda-registrar-after-devastating-errors-in-2020-election

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