California fights Trump plan to restrict mail-in ballot delivery Play

Ballots are going out in less than a month, and California remains locked in a legal battle with the Trump administration over President Donald Trump's push to rein in mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is still an option in California, and yes, it's still safe and generally reliable as of Monday.

But the U.S. Supreme Court will vote any day on a proposal by the president to ban the Postal Service from delivering vote-by-mail ballots unless they're part of a federal database of registered voters. The Postal Service proposes to track each voter's ballot with a unique barcode and then cross-reference your vote with a database to see if you are eligible.

The post office would refuse to deliver mail-in ballots that don't meet this criteria, but no one knows how this will work, and there's the possibility of large pallet-fuls of votes being rejected if one or two of them inside aren't on the list.

L.A. County officials are urging voters to bypass this — make a plan to vote early and hand off your ballot at a voting center or a drop box. Bypass the post office entirely. Los Angeles County is one of the largest voting districts in the nation, and local officials are preparing ballot distribution and collection plans that were deployed after the devastating fires of last year.