KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Will SCOTUS Bring a Modicum of Sanity to Mail-In Ballot Madness? “This is anecdotal, but it is a thing that happened. For the last six years that I lived in California, I was on the permanent vote-by-mail list, a list that I never once opted in on. Every election, I would fill out a provisional ballot, and request to be taken off of the vote-by-mail list, which never happened. After I had been back in Arizona for a few years, I checked and I was still registered in California and on the list.”