Shasta County supervisors signed a support letter for AB 2604, a bill that would create a statewide ballot-curing process for unsigned or mismatched vote-by-mail ballots, according to the county’s July 14 board record.
The letter says the Board of Supervisors supports AB 2604 and urges passage of the measure, which it describes as an elections bill that would standardize how ballot curing works statewide. The supporting materials say the secretary of state would implement the system under the amended proposal and note Colorado as a place already using text-message-based ballot curing options.
The AB 2604 letter was a separate elections-policy action from another July 14 item tied to SB 1420, which asked supervisors to support a different bill focused on vote-by-mail scanning and early voting. That staff report also said the county’s Elections Office has been handling a surge of vote-by-mail ballots and overtime work, and it cited Placer County as an example of a pilot that reduced ballot-processing time by three to four days.
If enacted, AB 2604 could change how counties handle unsigned or mismatched vote-by-mail ballots and affect canvass timing and voter-rejection rates, but the board record does not show a vote tally or whether any supervisor dissented on the AB 2604 item.
