California legislator pushes for voter privacy in recall elections

The California Leislature is weighing a bill to protect voters’ privacy in the digital age — and if it passes, certain personal information would no longer appear in newspaper notices tied to recall efforts.

A bill introduced by Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, R-Yucaipa, would amend the California Elections Code to allow signatures and street addresses to be removed from the publicly published notice that kicks off a recall effort.

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