No surprise that unions are eager for new voting system

SACRAMENTO — California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and a host of union officials are savaging the Republican-controlled Orange County Board of Supervisors for its recent rejection of a plan to replace the current voting system with a vote-by-mail alternative. They accuse the board of partisanship, but they are the ones playing power politics.
Padilla, a Democrat, said the county’s decision “was driven less by the interests of the people of Orange County and more by politic