Voting in Butte County may be mail-in only for the presidential election come November.
Action News Now Brandon Benitez reports.
Voting in butte county may be mail-in only for the presidential election come november -- action news now reporter brandon benitez joins us live, brandon, what's behind the move?
Butte county supervisors voted unanimously today to send a letter to the governor...suppo rting mail in only ballots statewide in the next election... because of the coronavirus.
The agenda item in butte county shows that county clerk candace grubbs is asking the board to adopt a resolution of support.
It says some of the polling sites in the county and many staff have indicate they will not serve in november because of the virus... vote by mail is perhaps one of the greatest freedoms there is.
You can vote at your dining room table you can vote in your car you could go have a dinner party and vote.// as we look at the voting model that we've previously used we are needing to look at the possibility of okay we have folks that are still sheltering in place how do we conduct voting in a way that is the least risk to the health and saftey of our citizens lucero is also open to the idea of electronic voting like through an app for example... this could help because another concern is that many of the staff at voter assistance centers are over 60 and following stay at home orders... live in chico brandon benitez action news now coverage you can count on... tehama county is also considering keeping everyone home -- and having everyone vote by mail come november 9th.
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