They are not as secure as government drop boxes, which are put in well-lighted places and are tamper-proof,” he said.
The California GOP drop boxes are a new version of “vote harvesting," which is legal in California and allows party volunteers to collect multiple ballots and deliver them to election officials.
Some of the party's drop boxes were labeled as “official,” even though they are not authorized by county election officials.
Jessica Levinson, an election law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles said labeling the boxes official clearly was illegal.
“I'm assuming they decided on less labor-intensive ways of trying to get at it,” he said of the Republican drop boxes.