WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and California's former Secretary of State, and Brian Lemek, Executive Director of Defend the Vote, penned an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times condemning President Trump's threats to restrict voter access and urging Congressional action to protect mail-in and absentee voting.
In the op-ed, Padilla and Lemek criticized Trump's recent Executive Order that aims to illegally re-write federal election administration rules, explicitly attacking vote-by-mail. In addition to the Executive Order, they discussed the Trump Administration's efforts to l...