California Early Votes Are Shattering Records — Why That Matters When Trump Plans to Cheat

More than 60% of the total votes cast in the state in 2016 have already been sent in early

Steve Kettmann
The Bold Italic
Published in
6 min readOct 30, 2020

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Stacks of mail cartons full of ballots being sorted by a person in the background wearing a face mask.
Photo: Robyn Beck/Getty Images

San Francisco philanthropist Uli Schmid-Maybach was planning on voting as always this year — until he talked to his wife, Danielle. She implored him to see this…

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I write on politics now and then, starting with belief that 2024 could be the end of U.S. democracy, and that California leadership matters.