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This bill introduces comprehensive changes to California's election procedures aimed at enhancing voter verification and election integrity. The bill would require voters to provide documentation proving their citizenship when registering to vote, rather than simply self-certifying, and would mandate that voters present a valid government-issued ID when voting in person or include the last four digits of their ID on vote-by-mail ballots. The State Auditor would be tasked with periodically reviewing voter rolls to identify ineligible voters and auditing signature verification processes, with counties having more than a 5% error rate required to develop remediation plans. The bill also establishes new procedures for ballot counting, requiring elections officials to count most ballots within 72 hours of an election, and imposes penalties on counties that fail to meet these requirements, such as restricting their ability to automatically mail ballots to all registered voters in subsequent elections. Additionally, the bill repeals previous restrictions on local governments enacting voter ID requirements and adds new signature verification steps for vote-by-mail ballots, including comparing the last four digits of a voter's government-issued ID across different documents. These changes are intended to improve election security and maintain more accurate voter registration lists by creating multiple verification checkpoints throughout the voting process.

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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB25