In California, what’s particularly interesting is that Republicans are claiming their private drop boxes are just their version of “ballot harvesting,” or having someone from the party collect completed ballots from voters and then turn them over the election officials — which is legal.
So in California, the GOP has set up these unofficial collection points in churches, gun shops and party offices. But the problem is if you set up drop boxes that claim to be official but don’t have the authority, which is the case for a political party, that could lead to mass voter confusion.