President Donald Trump has been lying for years about elections in California. He has done it again in the days prior to the state’s Tuesday primaries for governor and other offices.
In a Fox News interview that aired Saturday, Trump falsely claimed of California, “Their elections are a fraud; their mail-in votes are a fraud.” There’s simply no basis for those vague assertions. Then, later in the interview, Trump said, “You know, they don’t have voting booths. Everything’s by mail.”
That’s not true, either — as CNN has pointed out when Trump has made such claims in the past. Though all active registered voters in California are sent a mail-in ballot, they have the option to ignore that ballot and vote in person instead.
“Any registered voter in California can decide whether to vote at a polling place or vote by mail,” the office of California’s elections chief says on its website.
Individual California counties also explain on their websites that all voters can cast ballots in person. For example, Santa Clara County says:
“Under the Voter’s Choice Act, every voter will automatically be sent a Vote by Mail ballot; however, you are not required to use it. Every voter also has the option to go to a vote center and vote in person instead.
When you vote in person, your mail ballot will automatically be void. You may either surrender your unused ballot at the vote center or you may destroy and dispose of it yourself. Only one ballot will be accepted and counted per voter per election.”
About 3.1 million ballots were cast at in-person voting locations in California in the 2024 general election, representing about 19% of the total ballots cast in the state.
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