Alex Padilla

California law empowers voters to decide for themselves who they trust to return their ballot for them.

The House of Representatives has already taken a significant step in passing the HEROES Act.

We are certainly hoping to properly support and fund the U.S. Postal Service so that members of the military... can participate in our democracy and not be disenfranchised.

There is no reason for no-excuse vote-by-mail to not be in effect nationally when the security measures show that it works.

Voter fraud is exceedingly, exceedingly rare, so the current safeguards are working.

If we are really concerned about, you know, the unfortunate disenfranchisement of so many eligible citizens, then we should fully fund the U.S. Postal Service and we should fully fund elections.

The fundamental right to vote, to making it easier for eligible citizens to register to vote and to stay registered and to cast their ballot, should not be a partisan issue.

The California voters will not have to choose between exercising their right to vote and protecting their health.

I want to talk about the two greatest threats to a free, fair, and safe election this November: the COVID-19 pandemic and election disinformation.

If your premise is, look, this is the United States of America, and if you are 18 years or older and a citizen with minimal exceptions, you have the right to vote, exercise that right vote without any--without any unnecessary obstacles…

Additional resources on the table that are desperately needed.

The safeguards are working, by and large.

I very much appreciate the question.

California's share of last year's appropriation was about $34 million.

So there is an element to H.R. 1 that establishes not just time tables for EAC--or excuse me--DHS testing and certification of voting systems prior to their being used by States.

If we agree that defending the integrity of our elections is a matter of National security, then we must act accordingly.

The defense of our Nation's elections must be a top priority for all of government; Federal, State, and local.

The integrity of our elections is a matter of National security

Our National response is severely lacking.

Elections officials are on the front lines. We are the first responders to attacks on our democracy.

Our democracy is under attack

The president's allegations of massive voter fraud are simply not true.

Election integrity is paramount, we take all accusations of voter fraud very seriously, and to me, that's what was most troublesome of the tweet yesterday. Significant allegations with no proof, no evidence, if you have it, team Trump…

Absolutely not, Anderson and I think that's a big part of the problem here.

His unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in California and elsewhere are absurd. His reckless tweets are inappropriate and unbecoming of a president-elect.